This section summarizes last month's LinkedIn Updates and Twitter Tweets sent about online articles or blog posts that I've flagged as worth reading. These are usually posted on weekends when I am doing much of my reading for research, learning, or leisure.

My original tweet commenting on the article follows each title and descriptor from the original source.

Why New Year's Resolutions Fail
http://www.psychologytoday.com
"Researchers have looked at success rates of peoples' resolutions: the first two weeks usually go along beautifully, but by February, people are backsliding and by the following December, most people are back where they started, often even further behind."

Ray Williams provides timely and practical steps that extend into any habits we're trying to build or break.

John Maxwell: Lead From Where You Are
http://www.successmagazine.com
"Leadership is a choice you make, not a place you sit. Anyone can choose to become a leader wherever he or she is."

Provides practical approaches to my long held principle that leadership is an action, not a position. If it's to be, it's up to me.

Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative - Umair Haque
http://blogs.hbr.org
"What most companies (and economies) don't do is to stop doing - and that's a self-defeating problem. We seem to be clueless about making room for deep questioning and thinking: reflecting. Our doing/reflecting ratio is wildly out of whack."

Sets up and supports my upcoming blog posts on the critical need for management teams to review, assess, celebrate, and refocus.

PR Leadership - Lessons Learned from Harry Potter
http://www.dontdrinkthekoolaidblog.com
Alan Cohen, Executive coach, shares leadership lessons learned from Harry Potter.

Insightful look at what we can learn from this popular series. Dumbledore's opening quote on choices is profound and oh so true.

How to Bring Out the Best in Your Boss - Liz Wiseman
http://blogs.hbr.org
"Most corporate managers are multipliers "down" to their direct reports and staff, but not out to their peers or up to their bosses. Yet, my research has shown that people can serve as multipliers from any direction, even to a diminisher."

Leading others is most often focused on direct reports and sometimes influencing peers. We need a lot more focus on upward leadership. See my first blog post about Wiseman's research at Genius or Genius Maker: Do You Multiply or Diminish Intelligence Around You?