The Absolutes of Leadership by Philip Crosby (Author of Quality Without Tears)

                                     

      In this, his eleventh book, consultant Philip Crosby, a world-renowned leader, offers his readers a better understanding on leadership. He says that being a leader cannot be taught but learned. Leadership comes in five versions - DESTRUCTOR, PROCRASTINATOR, CARETAKER, PREPARER and ACCOMPLISHER. By examining those character types, the author establishes a framework on how would-be-leaders build a quality leadership skills on their own. In my perspective, while reading this book, I was overwhelmed on how the author described each personality. Practically speaking, this book trains the would-be-leaders in preparing their agenda, strategies and plan for their businesses.

How to Save Your Own Life--Erica Jong

 
          This novel touches every woman who wants to know more her life during her divorce. It talks about betrayal, trust, being alone and sexual indifference. According to the "Wit and Wisdom of Isadora Wing, as the Amanuensis to the Zeitgeist, while writing her novel in a novel, in saving your own life, she dictated to "have pen, will travel." She wrote the following:
1. Renounce useless guilt.
2. Don't make a cult of suffering.
3. Live in the Now (or at least the Soon).
4. Always do the things you fear the most; courage is an acquired taste, like a caviar.
5. Trust all joy.
6. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere.
7. Get ready to be eighty-seven.
           She wrote, "to be continued."