Book meme
“Grab the nearest book, open to page 123, go down to the 5th sentence, and type up the 3 following sentences.”
But he also returns to the issue of writing off what is unfamiliar: “Leaders have a tendency to write off things that are outside their realm. In the old days, you had the expression ‘loony left’ and with it you threw out both the good and the bad. Basically, you were dismissing anything you did not comprehend with throw-away lines.”
There is a powerful warning in this.
Beyond Authority
Leadership in a changing world
Julia Middleton- Common Purpose
As seen all over the place. (The meme, not the book.)
March 8th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
You were really reading that? Wow.
March 8th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
What James said.
I have tried quite a few times to do this meme (I’ve been tagged several times for it) but what I find seems stupid so I give up, saying this is a totally pointless meme, which it is if you think twice about it. You were lucky.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I wasn’t actually reading it at the time- but it was top of the heap of books on the drawer unit in the bedroom.
(I don’t actually have any books on the go at the moment, but I have a small heap of magazines that I try hard to reduce to zero without simply slinging them unread).
Had the four sentences been complete dross or nonsensical out of context, I would have worked my way down the heap which includes Michael Palin’s Python years and the Douglas Adams retrospective.
March 9th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
You had me worried there, Shades - I thought you were reading it!