8/11/2003 02:23:43 PM|||Travis|||

Oh duuudddeee, I made a post this morning about a dream I had, but it must have gotten lost during one of the reboots. Damn you shitty programs that I had to re-install! (specifically it was AIM and Adobe Acrobat).

I have noticed a big energy increase over the past week, and I would attribute it mainly to using melatonin to regulate my sleeping cycles. Now that I am getting a good nights rest I am much more productive.

A good night's sleep doesn't neccisarily mean that you sleep for a long time. It means that while you sleep, you sleep in a very deep state with lots of REM activity. Without melatonin, this becomes more difficult to do (but that only happens to older people). I basically used it to re-boot my sleep system from 12 or 1 to 6:30 or 7:30. It has to vary because of my work schedule- I work both breakfast and as a night-time bartender.

I am reading a good book on leadership and will be writting more about it soon enough. I want to use the frame it provides for leadership to asses my strengths. Then I can see what tatics I am currently using, what ones I should be using and will get a better overall picture on how to lead the company.

The book mentioned that developing an expertise is of great value and how you will become a leader, as others will come and seek you out for your expertise. I belive that I want to develop an expertise in business, but I cannot define it anymore narrowly at the moment. Jake has an expertise with programing, specifically graphical programing. Jay also has expertise in programming. It looks like it took them around five years, I belive I can become extremely valuable as a businessman in that same amount of time.

The book is called "The New Art of the Leader" and is written by a college professor who was a military commander in the air force. He uses all sorts of examples of leadership in the private sector, but by far the best examples (and those that he probably knows the best) have to do with military. For example, the story about general Patton during WWI. He led a tank division and was faced with a problem- tanks had extremely poor visibilty. They were invaluable in a battle however, because they could attack extremely well fortified positions effectively. However they could never get there if they couldn't see where they were going. So what did Patton do?

He walked beside them and guided them striaght into battle! Eventually he was wounded, but that is a great example of leadership. Later on his expertise with tanks would let him become an important (and famous) general during WWII, after the general who lost to Rommel was sent back state-side.

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