📚 2024 Week #5: Reading Summary

⏳ “Olivia Strauss is Running Out of Time” by Angela Brown

I wasn’t sure about this one … and I found lessons in it on the power of friendship, remembering that as life changes - goals and dreams can too. (Fiction) 

🐎 Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment by Todd Rose & Ogi Ogas 

I asked for this one for Christmas of 2020, when I was coming up filing for my retirement from the Air Force; I was both a military commander & in a senior leadership role. I was really tired and trying to figure out what to do with my life while in the middle of trying to help people around me survive theirs. I read part of it - highlighted a bunch and then moved on. (Not an indicator of the book - it is how I read; lots of things at once, often driven by what is happening in my life and around me). I started over this year & I smiled when I got to the end and found Western Governors University Some books are just meant to be - and meant to be picked up at multiple times in life. 

I appreciate the guidance to know your micro-motives and to spot how the standardization covenant may not be guiding you and your life to fulfillment. 

💻 “Debugging Teams: Better productivity through Collaboration” by Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman. Some of my favorites from this one. 

‼️People are afraid of others seeing and judging their work in progress. 

✔️If you spend your time working alone, you’re increasing the risk of failure and cheating your potential for growth. 

❤️Almost every social conflict can ultimately be traced back to a lack of humility, respect, or trust. 

💐 Strong teams don’t arise spontaneously; they’re carefully seeded and cultivated. 

11 books so far in 2024… looking forward to what’s to come.