What if You Could Design the Cover?

When you go to purchase a book, there is one key element that is designed to grab your attention and peak your interest before you even pick it up. Maybe people choose to take notice or ignore a book just by what is on its cover. The colors, the images, the description on the back; all of these influence our purchase before we read the pages inside.

What if you were asked to design a new book cover? A major publisher wants to update and bring new life to a best-seller, and wants your input. Your familiar with the characters and the storyline. Would you help them out?

Now imagine that the book you were chosen to help redesign was the Bible. We aren’t talking about content, layout, or the order of individual books. Nothing in the pages changes, just the outside. What would you suggest?

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How Bad Can I Be?

It’s March Break here in Canada, and the kids are home for the week. Since today is my usual day off, we planned to do something fun with the kids.

Our local movie theater just changed hands and has gone through some changes. It reopened this weekend, so we went for a matinee today and saw “The Lorax.”

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Book Review: “Every Leader’s Everest” by Jim C. Molloy

molloy_everyleaderseverestAs a leader, do you know what your greatest struggle is? Various answers may be running through your head. “Getting people to follow.” “Knowing how to make good decisions.” “Coming up with some kind of vision or direction for the people I lead.”

While all of these are genuine concerns, they are not your greatest struggle. It is not an external force, but an internal one; one that lies within you and threatens all that you hope to accomplish. Jim Molloy reveals the worst enemy of leadership in “Every Leader’s Everest.”

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