RSS feedThe votes are in and the staff at Fi-Med has made its book selection, Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results, by Thomas Schmitt and Arnold Perl.
If anyone has read or is currently reading this book, feel free to post your comments here. You don’t have to work at Fi-Med to join in our discussion. For those of you who are in the Fi-Med book club, we encourage you to post your thoughts and comments as you go. Your insights may help someone who is struggling with a particular section, or it may motivate someone to check out what you are referencing to. Below is a brief overview from the publisher.
Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results.
From the publisher:
Simple Solutions provides a unique, “here’s how we do it”; perspective on leadership. The book presents a left-brain, right-brain approach to leadership that is easy to read and understand with advice that readers can immediately put to use. The impact of the message in Simple Solutions stands out, even in a high-powered, high-performance benchmark environment such as FedEx, because it challenges many popular leadership wisdoms head-on and suggests that some of the old tried-and-true leadership guideposts may not be the right ones. The book presents the following components that are necessary for success:
- business savvy
- people skills
- collaboration with peers
- time management
- ability to execute
- ambition
- leadership
- vision
- focus
- determination
I read a book called 50 Success Classics – which highlighted the main points from all the great leaders – Horatio Alger, Andrew Carnegie, Chin-ning Chu, Michael Dell , Ben Franklin, Napoleon Hill, Nelson Mandela. Perseverance seems to be key!