@Raj, I definitely agree. I hope the internet doesn’t take over our daily lives though in the people interface and communication. I put as much value there as I do reading (probably more actually).

@Dragos, thanks for your thoughts. Change is getting ever ever faster, you are right and so leadership means leading that as well. You can’t lead without changing. I’m glad you are liking the series, it’s been great fun so far!

Thanks for the post, the series become more and more enjoyable.

It’s great that you’re reminding people of the importance of reading. I lost the habit when I started working, but have picked it up and now average a book a week. Even then I wish I had more time to read and learn! Great post!

@Lance. I think what you and Jennifer are doing at journeyofsuccess forums to learn book content and apply it is very cool. That is absolutely a great way to enable and use the internet in a good way combined with books. I hope more people find their way to it. Thanks for your comments, I’m happy to help provide a small piece of that continuous learning in this series.

@Hamid, you’ve clearly done some study of leadership or have experience as you’ve outlined well many things that leaders demonstrate and are important to have. I like your idea of searching knowledge, just don’t forget that it’s about applying that knowledge as well!

BTW: Crisp is really the best kind of article to have if you ask me. THANKS!

@Bunny, I would secretly (not a secret anymore) like to have the superpower to destroy and eliminate ever single television on the planet with the snap of a finger. Oh what a world we could have again… OK, that might be over the top, you are right though, less TV would be good for many people.

@Broderick, thanks for chiming in as well on the difference reading makes. I hope your comments and others hear help to reinforce some readers to take on more reading and continuous learning. I’ve not met someone who’s said well I used to read a lot and loved it, but now I don’t like it really, it’s always the other way around and people find out they love to read and always do it.

@Stacey, again your testament here about reading and the value of books and continuous learning is awesome! I’m glad to hear about it and thanks for helping to inspire more of those reading this!

@Armen, interesting point about starting to read. I’ve always attributed my speed up to speed reading actually and think it played a bigger role because I can easily fall back into my slow methods if I don’t pay attention to my reading speed. I guess you can get more attentive and involved in books as they become more interesting to you, so I’d suspect yes, you would get better at consuming the content.

As for online, I certainly don’t think there is a big difference in available quality online versus books. You still have to do a bit of research or recommendations to find good content, in either medium. I just think a whole book on a subject covers it so much better with depth, that it outweighs a lot of content online. I think I could safely say I’ve learned more useful and applicable stuff from nearly every book I’ve read on leadership than I’ve ever learned online. Perhaps the books came first so stuff I read now I know was from a book, but that is what it seems to me. Unfortunately, you have to do a lot of time searching for good content and not much time absorbing it when using the internet, plus the distractions are hard to avoid!