Category: Management and Leadership books
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Book Notes – Option B – Sandberg
(audiobook) Stunt recovery 3 ps Personalization – think at fault Pervasiveness – affect all areas of live Permanence – will last forever Go back to regular activities quickly but with lenience, part time or acceptable reduction in performance Stop saying sorry Stop with permanence words always and never Think how much worse things can be…
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Book Notes – Everything is F*cked – Manson
(audiobook) Example of polish army officer who went to Auschwitz voluntarily to set up a resistance vs our modern ‘issues’ After war, spied on Russia GVT, Captured, tortured but resisted stayed loyal to his hope of free Poland even when he could have escaped to italy We are insignificant in the scale of the universe/time.…
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Book Notes – The Bomber Mafia – Gladwell
(audiobook) How tech progress does not always deliver but can also have other unintended impacts Norden – created method to determine where a bomb would land when released from an airplane. Used in 2nd world war – 55lb package stabilized with gyroscope, mirrors, levels dials etc. Used by bombardiers to aim Algorithms to figure out…
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Book Notes – Creativity Inc. – Catmull
Toy story release, fully computerised. Saw other startups have success then die off. How to build culture vs company? How to keep Creativity? Assume everyone is talented and creative, assume company is harming that, figure out how to remove those barriers. Uncertainty, instability, lack of candor, what we can’t see. A Managers loosen reigns, pay…
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Book Notes – Braving the Wilderness – Brown
(audiobook) Belonging is important. When in pain, 3 outcomes 1. Live in CST pain seek relief try to numb pain or pass it on to others. 2 deny pain and makes it pass to those around you and your children. 3 own pain develop empathy and compassion in yourself and others. Bring authentic self, don’t…
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Book Notes – How to change your mind – Pollan
(audio book) [This was not what I was expecting based on the title, it is mostly about psychedelics, somewhat interesting stories but it lacks a lot of robust scientific study. The book seems to try and convince the reader that scientific study is warranted and new approaches may be needed, as it sounds like they…
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Book Notes – Weapons of Math Destruction – O’Neil
(Audio book) Algorithms deciding things sometimes based on insufficient data and can cause life changing problems Everyone has models which are a simplification of reality. They often work but sometimes don’t as they don’t take everything into account. They need to be constantly updated or they become stale. Racism is our model being flawed, generalization,…
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Book Notes – Dare to Lead – Brown
(Audio Book version) Gratitude – write down things we are grateful for. Recognition increases employee engagement. Need to celebrate accomplishments.Addictions abound, statistically everyone is impacted directly/indirectly. Numbing takes both good and bad away.Resentment related to lack of boundaries.Instead of trying to numb, lean into, understand reason. It’s not what we do it, but why we…
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Book Notes – Tribes – Godin
While this book seems to try and inspire ones to lead tribes with various examples, anectdotes and information, it seems to miss the mark in terms of depth. It is similar to Start with Why by Sinek, but lacks the depth and analysis. Explains the concept of tribes, or people with similar interest and viewpoints.…
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Book Notes – Good to Great – Collins
Study of a few companies that had an inflection point in their results going from good to great. Disciplined people, disciplined thought, disciplined action Growth of leadership to “level 5” – capable individual -> contributing team member -> competent manager -> effective leader -> level 5 leader Level 5 leaders think of the organization before…