Andy Unedited
Exploring Books, Life, and Writing
The new Sony ebook reader is now in stores. But . . . You can’t search it. You can’t write notes in the margin. You have to have Windows XP. There’s a half-second delay when you press the turn-the-page button. You can’t skip directly to a particular page. There’s no backlight option for those who …
One overlooked and underrated leadership quality that has gotten a bit more press recently is humility.
We should be grateful to Jim Collins for raising our consciousness about this trait with his concept of Level 5 Leadership–a person who combines great ambition for the organization with great personal humility. He offers a number of examples of leaders who missed this mark and those who hit the target, most famously, perhaps, Abraham Lincoln.
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To write a blog, you need to have an interesting personality or provocative opinions. I have neither.
But as I wrote Heart. Soul. Mind. Strength. (IVP, 2006), the history of InterVarsity Press over its first 60 years, I began to realize, I do have opinions, opinions about publishing. They may not be interesting, but they are strong.
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