Matthew May joined the show recently to talk about his excellent new book: The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change.
You can listen to our conversation here. You can read full transcripts here.
Matt's a leader. It made sense to ask him:
You’re a leader. Leaders are readers. Jim Rohn said that. What are you reading for work or play?
And he generously answered:
I just finished reading a great book by Steven Shapiro, an innovation consultant. It’s called Personality Poker and it comes with a deck of cards.
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson...by the way I review books on a weekly basis for Open Forum.
Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences, by Nancy Duarte. It’s about how you craft a story for presentation. Just a great book that everyone should read because all of us have to pitch an idea sometime.
I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works, by Nick Bilton, NY Times blogger.
Those are some of the books I’ve been reading that I get inspiration from.
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Leaders are readers.
That is how you create a culture of learning as Gary Harpst talked about in an earlier show. That culture of learning is critical if you want to continually learn new tools and resources and skills and master more talents. That is how you discover new solutions for the new challenges that your growth will bring. That is also how you develop a culture of leaders. Learners are leaders. Reading is one way you learn. Reading what leaders read is one way you accelerate that learning, accelerate that leading for yourself and your company.
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