Book Notes

As I read books, I take notes and capture passages that I find helpful, valuable, or challenging. I publish some of them on my site. Here's the most recent set of notes I've published. If you like what you read here, consider signing up for my newsletter so you don't have to check the website for the latest.

Reading People: How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

Sometime around 2012 I became intrigued by personality typing systems. I had a loose introduction to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and a deeper introduction to DISC. After implementing DISC in a work setting I started to realize how helpful systems...

Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager

This is one of the first books I read in the leadership or personal growth category. It was a great intro to that type of learning for me. For some, the teaching-by-parable approach may feel cheesy. I don't mind it, though, so I enjoyed the book. Tha...

Letters by a Modern Mystic

Letters by a Modern Mystic is a collection of excerpts from letters that Frank Laubach wrote to his father while serving as a missionary in the Philippines. The letters were dated between January of 1930 and January of 1932. The theme amongst these l...

Compassion (&) Conviction

This is the book I didn’t realize I was waiting for. Over the past few years, I’ve been particularly interested in engaging more in political discussion and action. As I looked at the landscape of conversations going on, I struggled to see how my Chr...

Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

One of my favorite shows on the Discovery was MythBusters. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were a really fun duo as they hosted the show and led hundreds of experiments and tests. I was delighted when I saw that Adam was writing a book sharing life les...

The Leadership Pill

This is a very short book that’s written as a fable. Basically there are two types of leaders competing to see whose team performs better. One leader is taking a pill that alleges to provide the best qualities a leader needs, while the other leader, ...

The Hard Hat: 21 Ways to Be a Great Teammate

The book is built on George Boiardi, a college lacrosse player who died after taking a hit to the chest from a ball during a game. His character inspired the 21 ways outlined in this book. (More info about George is available on Vimeo.com(https://vim...

The Go-Giver

In 2012 I attended a week-long EntreLeadership(https://entreleadership.com) event where they sent attendees home with a number of books (the “EntreLeadership Library” as they called it). One of those books was The Go-Getter(https://amzn.to/34HXJm8), ...

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