A batch of the best highlights from what Edwin's read, .
We Are Not Just Our Behavior. We Are The Person Managing Our Behavior.
The New One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard, Spencer, M.D. Johnson
My father used to say that anyone caught stealing should be punished. Anyone who does so while serving in a position of public trust should, as with speeding through a highway work zone, receive double the punishment. I think he was right.
On Character
Stanley McChrystal
Blank spaces, begging to be filled in with thoughts, with photos, with stories. With what we’re going to do, with what things should or could be like, what we hope will happen. Technology, asking you, prodding you, soliciting talk. Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It’s more “Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am.” It’s rarely the truth: “I’m scared. I’m struggling. I don’t know.”