After roughly a year of work, I’ve completed the book I was writing titled “Even Tougher Than Herding Cats”.
The book is focussed on management advice for newly minted managers and those taking on broader management and leadership roles.
I know people say “It’s been a labour of love!” and it really has. Not just because I enjoy writing but because my family love me enough to allow me to pursue this kind of time-consuming project when I’m already away from them a lot because of my day job.
The book is available to order through Amazon Kindle Publishing services, with a published date of January 16th, 2020.
If you enjoy reading the blog, and you would like to support the book, I would really appreciate you picking up a copy (or five!).
While I enjoy writing, it is challenging. The response to this book will determine whether I invest the time I borrowed from my family to write another.
Thanks for your support, and please let me know what you think.
We are creatures built for regret. We procrastinate, avoid and sometimes fail to begin at all things that we know, deep down, we should do. There is a class of regret that comes from unwise actions or poorly chosen words, but this is not the worst. It’s the things we don’t do that cause the most guilt and regret. So how do we avoid the regret of things undone? Start. Something. Somewhere. Start now.
Context is vital. It provides a grounding for our conversations, focus and actions, both personal and professional. In the same way that punctuation can completely change the essence of a sentence (“Let’s eat, Grandma.” being very different from its non-punctuated alternative), so context can completely change the meaning of what we’re doing. From a work point of view, context helps people understand the why of what we do.
