Book Review #2
Tilt! - By Louis Patler
2000 Capstone Publishing
Irreverent lessons for leading innovation in the new economy.
So this book was written in 1999, a good 7 years ago, so it was interesting to read Louis’ perspectives now in the light of years of progress.
This is a business management book… I seem to be reading a lot of them recently?
And it didn’t really grab me as much as I though it would. BUT… I have a theory why…
Patler talks about ideas that have since become the standard mode of thought in the business world; Attitude, Perspective, Leadership, Retention, Globalism… so maybe if I had read this book a few years ago I would be much more astounded at the insight and thought processes of the author.
Application for Children’s Ministry:
From Chapter Two - ‘The Future’. A paragraph that discusses a team that analysed Einsteins brain)
(Page 15) The story went on to describe just how “normal” his brain (Einstein’s) appears to be. THey quote Einstein, who never took himself too seriously, as saying, “My brain ought to be studied for scientific reasons so that if anyone has a question, it can be answered”…I read on and noticed some comments by Einstein’s grand daughter, Albany Eyelyn Einstein. “Anything they find [by examining her grandpa's brain] will be interesting,” she said. “I think it’s important to look for something if it’s there; and if nothing’s there, to prove he was a normal guy. He was not some new, super-developmental stage of the human race,” she said. ” I think he retained, to a large degree, the freedom and the ability to think like a child!”…don’t just look for the predictable solution, look beyond it for what I call “the second solution.”
Lesson: Think like a child.
