by Adam Read | Nov 5, 2020 | Brian on Books 2020
2020: Book #37 I’m not going to be popular for this, but here we go. I’m not a fan of Bob Goff’s latest book, “Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It and What You’re Going to Do About It.” There are some serious Biblical issues happening in this book. Here’s...
by Adam Read | Nov 5, 2020 | Brian on Books 2020
2020: Book #36 The title of David Rubenstein’s new book is misleading. He’s titled it, “How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers.” But here’s the problem: there’s very little about “how to lead” in the book. Rubenstein conducted...
by Adam Read | Oct 26, 2020 | Brian on Books 2020
2020: Book #35 “Most people don’t learn from bad decisions because they’re convinced their bad decisions were somebody else’s fault.” “You may not be good at selling anything to anybody else, but when it comes to selling yourself on a bad idea, you are master class.”...
by Adam Read | Oct 20, 2020 | Brian on Books 2020
2020: Book #34 “To live the best, you should have conversation with the dead.” “Runners in a race ought to compete and strive to win as hard as they can,” Chrysippus would later say, “but by no means should they trip their competitors or give them a shove. So too in...
by Adam Read | Oct 9, 2020 | Brian on Books 2020
2020: Book #33 “Mary Todd Lincoln was nobody’s idea of a good time.” I laughed out at that statement.Literally, I laughed out loud. That’s a sentence from S.C. Gwynne’s new book, “Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War.” This is a...
by Adam Read | Oct 9, 2020 | Brian on Books 2020
2020: Book #32 “People want work that matters and relationships that fulfill.” “Dreams are the wishes our hearts make, but our hearts are not reliable guides. Our hearts have taken good things from god and conjured up fever dreams of them as things in which we can...
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