Peter Drucker is considered the Father of Modern Management. This best-seller of his, “The Effective Executive: The Definite Guide to Getting the Right Things Done” was first published in 1967 and has not lost a bit of relevance and usefulness for today’s manager in getting the right things done. That’s
August 29, 2024
The world sees love as the work of the flesh or of human origin but true love as the saints would affirm it is the work of the Holy Spirit. It is the highest form of love and it is called the Theological Virtue of Charity. Romantic love which is the
August 27, 2024
Another good book on improving a company’s culture or work environment where there’s teamwork and employees are motivated in achieving a common goal is the one authored by Daniel Coyle, “The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups”. A sign of a strong corporate culture is when individual workers
August 22, 2024
This law of the gift is one of the great legacies of Pope St. John Paul II. For those of you who don’t know St. John Paul II, especially the millennials, he was the Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005. He was a great Pope who wrote
August 15, 2024
This great book is for business owners, “The Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing in Business”, by Paul Jarvis. The book tells us that having a bigger company with many branches and on a constant expansion mode is not necessarily better than sticking to one
August 12, 2024
The Gospel tells us of a story of Christ’s encounter with a rich young man who was already fulfilling the Ten Commandments but felt it was not enough. “As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. ‘Good teacher,’ he
August 8, 2024
This book can help us overcome those jitters when speaking in front of an audience for the first time, perform a piano recital or play in a high-stakes basketball championship game. “The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance” by Dr. Nate Zinsser offers practical tips to defeat nervousness
August 1, 2024
Jesus Christ is perfect God and perfect man. We say that to mean that his perfection is not just for being God but also as man. If He is not perfect then He would not be God because to be God means to be perfect. Perfection means complete or lacking
July 26, 2024
This great book is for business owners. “The Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing in Business”, by Paul Jarvis tells us that having a bigger company with many branches and on a constant expansion mode is not necessarily better than sticking to one store or
July 25, 2024
Some would become atheists because they could not reconcile how can a good God allow evil to happen and especially evil happening to innocent people such as a young child getting cancer. It is not true that the Catholic Church has no answer to explain why evil happens in this
July 23, 2024
This is a great book about making connections with others, especially in the workplace. “The Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience” by Brene Brown. Atlas is a book of maps. Atlas of the Heart means knowing how to navigate around the three negative
July 20, 2024
Obviously, I can’t enumerate all 48 laws here from this best-selling book by Robert Greene, “The 48 Laws of Power”. But luckily, Nathan Lozeron author of the Productivity Game can summarize them for us into three, “Say as Little as Possible”, “Be Audacious”, and “Be Formless.” If you leverage the
July 18, 2024