{"id":119,"date":"2006-03-04T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T11:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/04\/the-prepared-mind-of-a-leader\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T22:05:51","slug":"the-prepared-mind-of-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/03\/04\/the-prepared-mind-of-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prepared Mind of a Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-119\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0787976806\/sr=8-1\/qid=1141500028\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-0883756-9829569?%5Fencoding=UTF8\" target=\"NewWindow\">The Prepared Mind of a Leader: Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions, and Solve Problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Bill Welter and Jean Egmon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardcover: <\/strong>304 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Jossey-Bass (October 24, 2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0787976806<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d give this book 5 out of 10 &#8211; the premise and some of the ideas are good, but the format used makes it less helpful for me. The title comes from a quote from Louis Pasteur: &#8220;Chance favors the prepared mind.&#8221;  The authors seem to believe that there&#8217;s a standard form that the eight skills of a prepared mind use.  The book then uses that form relentlessly for each one.  It didn&#8217;t work for me; I found myself skimming parts of the book because it couldn&#8217;t hold my interest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-119\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 119);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-119\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-119\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Prepared Mind of a Leader: Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions, and Solve Problems Author: Bill Welter and Jean Egmon Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Jossey-Bass (October 24, 2005) ISBN: 0787976806 I&#8217;d give this book 5 out of 10 &#8211; the premise and some of the ideas are good, but the format [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}