Are you familiar with this quote: “Attitude reflects leadership?”
I saw it written on someone’s whiteboard yesterday. I knew I had heard it before, and assumed it was a timeless quote uttered by a leadership guru of decades ago, or maybe a coach like Lombardi or Landry. Regardless, I couldn’t shake it all day, so I looked it up last night. Best I can tell, it came from this scene from the movie Remember the Titans in 2000:
I recently finished Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life. (aff. link) I was already a pseudo-fan of Miller’s, but this book pushed me over the edge. The video below gives the details, but here are the main reasons you need to read this book:
Donald Miller is one of the most talented writers of our time. It is actually a joy just to partake in the act of reading what he writes. His voice and his points are both stellar.
I had about 15 a-ha moments while reading this thing. That’s high. And who doesn’t want a-ha moments?
I’ll be re-reading this book about every two years, just to remind me of stuff I’m sure I’ll find ways to forget.
Here’s Donald’s website. And below is my summary of the book.
This video can only ellicit one reaction: Wow! (And that’s a pensive, holy crap wow, not a yeah, go team wow). Thanks to Junta42 for bringing it to my attention. Watch the video, and then answer this question: how can any of us keep up?
OK, I haven’t passed along some great links in a LONG time, so here’s to catching up. This stuff is really, really good.
Watching Jonathan’s video (below and here) sparked a still-brewing thought in my dusty brain: Consensus is the enemy of progress. OK, maybe that’s harsh and not always true. But after seeing Jonathan’s response to the HR lady below, you realize that having balls gets you a lot more than having consensus. Post Footer automatically generated [...]
Have you seen this? For those of you familiar with the church culture (esp. Southern Baptist), you’ll take away far too many nuggets of revelation from this one. The creator, Beyond Relevance, rants on “biblical marketing principles.” Very interesting. Tip o’ da hat to John. Also, here’s another great blog, Christian Java, for church marketing [...]
Who said effective design needs to be high design? Watch this video (PR Web in Plain English), and try to tell me its simplicity doesn’t actually communicate better than a slicker version they could’ve done. When you care more about the listener than you do the speaker, communication gets better. p.s. Anybody got any tips [...]
I’ve never heard of Gnarls Barkley, and I probably never would’ve seen their video on MTV (does MTV still play videos?), unless I hadn’t see this on Yahoo today. And Yahoo wouldn’t have bothered unless Gnarls Barkley had broken the rules (with crazy strobe light effects). They would’ve been just another band trying to breakthrough. [...]
You’ve seen these commercials. The ones with the creepy looking guy who had something to do with making an artificial heart, and now he’s a an assumed expert on cholesterol. I hate these commercials. However, I’m in favor of what Pfizer is doing about them, and how they’re doing it. It seems the ads have [...]
Just read an article by Rory J. Thompson on advertising during online video content in BrandWeek discussing how video content is “expected to grow the fastest in 2008, according to eMarketer, New York.” Makes sense, but this quote by Kris Oser, direcotr of strategic communications at eMarketer, doesn’t: “Mainstream advertisers are more comfortable with traditional [...]
