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Three Star Leadership LetterThe Three Star Leadership Letter will arrive in your email box about 15 times a year. The blog is the place for commentary and opinion, so the newsletter contains very brief tips and pointers to resources and information. The idea is that you will be able to read the whole thing in five minutes or less and get something of value. Click here to subscribe to Wally Bock's Three Star Leadership Letter. Here's a sample of material from a recent letter. Search Engines that Aren't Named Google or YahooGoogle and Yahoo may be the most popular search engines out there, but they're not the only ones. Sometimes another search engine is the right choice for you. Here are two sites that you should check out. You may have seen A9 on the navigation bar at Amazon. It's a handy search because it gives me the option to search web pages, graphics, books, and more. Most helpful to me, A9 retains my search history, making repeat searches much easier. Clusty has two features that I like. First, it lets me group my search results by topic/sub-topic, URL, or source. It also let's me check out a listed result by clicking through like other search engines, or by viewing the listed site in a new window or a preview frame. The Lesson of Napoleon and his MailNapoleon was a busy guy what with winning battles, staging coups, invading Russia, retreating from said invasion, inventing the conscript army, and more. Say this for Napoleon, he got a lot done. One of his productivity secrets was not reading his mail right away. When he was out on campaign, the mail was brought to him, but he didn't open it for two weeks. Napoleon figured that a lot of his mail brought requests from others. By the time he opened those letters, the matter had already been handled. Other mail included information that had no real time value. But what about urgent things? Napoleon figured that anything truly urgent would result in a messenger riding up to tell him about it. Think about Napoleon and his mail the next time you're tempted to quit doing something productive to check your email. How much of what's going to be in your box is going to require your attention right away? Military Slang You Can UseThe other day I was cruising around the web and I happened upon StrategyPage's Military Jokes and Military Humor. That's where I found the following bits of military slang. Some of the definitions here have be modifed to achieve a GP rating.
There are lots more examples on the StrategyPage site. Reading NotesI like Marcus Buckingham's stuff, especially the book "Now Discover Your Strengths." Actually, it wasn't the book I liked best, it was the audio version which was excellently abridged to avoid most of the fluff in the actual book. I also liked the strengths analysis instrument that's on the Gallup site which you can access with a code you get from the book or the audio. I've just started Buckingham's most recent book, "The One Thing You Need to Know." So far the book seems to be about more than on thing, but still a good and insightful read. That's a sample. You'll get similar stuff 15 times a year or so if you subscribe to the Three Star Leadership Letter. We use a double opt-in system. So when you subscribe to the Three Star Leadership Letter you will receive an email asking you to re-confirm that you want to receive it. If you want to receive it, use the confirmation link in the newsletter. If not, just delete the email. One more note. We do not archive the newsletter contents on the site. That's because the newsletter contains lots of links, pointers and other short items that would require a huge effort to keep current. If you've seen something in a newsletter but you've can't find it, email me using the form below and I'll hunt it down for you. Click here to subscribe to Wally Bock's Three Star Leadership Letter.
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