Leaders are Readers

At a conference a few weekends ago, the jazzy speaker (the VP of an American networking company) said 'leaders are readers'. He talked about how in his 29 mile commute to work along one of the busiest highways in LA, he would have audio books on in his car.

He was an excellent speaker and the company he runs (Xocai)- with his family - very successful. During the conference, which was about network marketing, he continued to return to the theme that leaders are readers. Today I received a newsletter from an NLP training company, and their opener was a quotation from Mark L Fox:

“Rich men tend to have large libraries… Poor men tend to have large… TV’s"

I love reading and also find audio books extremely handy for long car journeys. I have listened to Max Maltz on Psycho-Cybernetics (forerunner of NLP in many ways) and listened to many of Chris Cardell's marekting CDs too.

If you don't have the time to read a book, consider the time you spend in the car and, if you can find it, buy an audio book. Leaders are readers, but they are listeners too.