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Leadership Lessons from… Classic Toys

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

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Leadership Lessons from… AchieveMax®

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Harry K. Jones at AchieveMax® pick up my new book Toy Box Leadership and learned some lessons that he didn’t count on. Here’s his blog entry:

Toys as Mentors

Toy Box LeadershipThis is not a book review. However, there will be a review of this particular book in the next set of ten reviews we add to our website, bringing our total to 190 book reviews.

The book I speak of is Toy Box Leadership (Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child). It recently reminded me of a very valuable lesson I learned years ago and sometimes tend to forget. That lesson was very simplistic, and I guess that’s why it’s so easily forgotten. That lesson: “NEVER ASSUME.”

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Leadership Lessons from… Presidential Toys

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

If you had the ability to ask John McCain and Barack Obama just one question, what would it be? Would you query them about their economic policy? The War in Iraq? Education? Taxes?

Even with all the accusations of media bias swirling around this election, I’m not afraid to ask the really tough question: Which toy best represents each candidate’s leadership style?


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