Archive for 'Problem-Solving'
You’re Not That Special…Or Are You?
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
This week, there is a viral YouTube video circulating the country featuring High School English teacher David McCullough Jr. giving the commencement address at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts. In it, he flaunts the conventional graduation speech that wishes students well, instead delivering a diatribe about the way they’ve been made to think of themselves. [...]
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Book Review: Breaking Through Plateaus
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
Book #13 of 52 Breaking Through Plateaus: How to Get Your Business Back on a Double-Digit Growth Curve By Creating a Culture That Automatically Produces It written by Bruce Johnson is the long-awaited work from my friend and colleague! Johnson was the former pastor of a church that he grew into a local mega-church from [...]
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How to be a Valuable, Problem-Solver
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
I’m writing this post at 25,000 feet on a flight from Baltimore to San Antonio. While waiting for us to get past 10,000 feet so I could turn on my MacBook Air to do some work, I picked up the ever-present SkyMall catalog. If you’ve never seen one of these, they’re really quite amazing. Everything [...]
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How to Swim with the Sharks
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
Last Friday night I was surfing the channels looking for something interesting to watch on TV. My favorite 8PM show Kitchen Nightmares was a rerun (they now refer to these as “encore presentations”) and March Madness preempted the CBS shows I enjoy (I must be the only man in America that absolutely detests basketball) so [...]
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Book Review: How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
Book #7 of 52 How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life, written by Pat Williams and Jim Denny was my Cruise 2012 read. Williams and Denny use the biography of Walt Disney to show the power of creativity, tenacity, vision, and hard work to attain success in life. [...]
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Book Review: Clearing the Mind for Creativity
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
Book #6 of 52 Clearing the Mind for Creativity, written by John Kao was an e-book I got for $2.99 as a Kindle download. Kao offers an interesting perspective on creativity. Every business starts with an idea, and the only way to prosper and grow is with new ones. Creativity is the central element of [...]
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Book Review: Never Get a “Real” Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business, and Not Go Broke
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
Book #5 of 52 Never Get a “Real Job” Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business, and Not Go Broke written by Scott Gerber was something I picked up last year and just got around to reading this year. Gerber speaks directly to Generation Y, imploring them to start a business rather than [...]
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Grace Under Pressure
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
This past Sunday afternoon I decided to go to our Healthtrax gym and do an hour of cardio on the Arc Trainer elliptical machine. I usually bring my iPod but it also helps to watch something on the wide array of TV monitors too. With the NFL done for the year, my choices were the [...]
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Book Review: The Coming Jobs War
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
The Coming Jobs War written by Jim Clifton is a book I keep seeing at the news stands in the airport and have been intrigued with. I finally just bought it for my Kindle and read it. Clifton is the CEO of the Gallup Organization (of the famous “Gallup Polls”) and he explores what he [...]
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The Power of Taking Charge
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
By now you know I’m not a big fan of leadership studies (even though my Masters Degree is in Organizational Leadership) so it’s not often you’ll find me talking about leadership. Too hard to define. Too much “sitting up on the mountain” casting vision and not enough getting things done. My preference is for the [...]
