Saturday, took the kids to the local bagel place, had a bagel and coffee for breakfast. After that, I took our eldest - 3.5 yrs old - to the Magic House, while my wife took care of the younger one’s nap.
Saturday afternoon, my parents came over to watch the kids while wife and I went to see The Simpsons Movie. We both enjoyed it quite a lot.
Sunday, I went out and played some touch rugby with my brother, a couple guys from work, and another guy. There were only five of us. I think maybe the 103° F scared some of the regulars away.
Lots of water and we survived.
We played on a marked American football field. The sidelines were our goal lines and we played between the goal line and the 25 yard line.
I scored a few tries. One was off a dummy pass that could have fooled the gods. It made me feel, for one brief moment, like I was a fleet-footed back.
Finally, I started reading Good to Great, by Jim Collins. Essentially, the book is supposed to be a study of companies that, as the title suggests, made the transition from being “good” companies to being “great” companies, and why that transition happened.
Mr. Collins breaks it down into 9 chapters:
- Good is the Enemy of Great
- Level 5 Leadership
- First Who…Then What
- Confront the Brutal Facts (Yet Never Lose Faith)
- The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles)
- A Culture of Discipline
- Technology Accelerators
- The Flywheel and the Doom Loop
- From Good to Great to Built to Last
Certainly, I’ll be writing more about this book as I get further into it.
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