Collection of notes and summaries from books along with associated subject and book rating.
Excellent books
| Title | Author | Summary | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The one minute manager builds high performance teams | Blanchard | Various stages of group formation and appropriate leadership styles. Vision essential to point group in the right direction. | leadership |
| The on-time, on-target manager | Blanchard | Prioritizing the right things gives time to commit and complete them. Unless you can commit say no | Prioritization |
| Unstoppable Teams | Mills | Focus on the goal, commitment from team, build relationships, taking ownership, empower others | Teamwork, leadership |
| Never Split the Difference | Voss | Negotiating is about creating relationships, knowing what the other is really after and adjusting expectations. Several techniques for all parts | Negotiation |
| Radical Candor | Scott | How to be a fair boss both to employees and organization. Care about employees while challenging them directly to continually improve. | Leadership, management |
| Gung Ho! | Blanchard | Getting everyone to buy-in, be in control of their responsibilities, challenged and acknowledged brings motivation. | Motivation |
| Start with Why | Sinek | People buy-in to why you do things, not what you are doing. Consistently use your why to inspire, motivate and check that what you do is consistent and builds trust. | Motivation, inspiration, leadership |
| Good to Great | Collins | Analysis of companies that had an inflection point going from good to great. What contributed to their success and common characteristics of their leadership. | Management, leadership |
| Dare to lead | Brown | Collection of good and bad habits/behaviours, their source and ways to turn them around. Building emotional intelligence and healthy approaches. (vulnerability, self-awareness, courage) | Leadership, emotional intelligence |
| Creativity Inc. | Catmull | How Pixar developed a culture promoting creativity – normalizing failures as learning opportunities and reasons why it works. | Management, creativity, leadership |
Good books
| Title | Author | Summary | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to win friends and influence people in the digital age | Carnegie | Book details things people like and dislike in social interactions and how to more easily make friends. | interpersonal relationships |
| The power of ethical management | Blanchard | There is no right way to do a wrong thing. Make sure what you do is legal, ethical and makes you feel good about yourself. | Ethics |
| The Art of War | Sun-Tzu | Lessons from war general with some relevance to business. Avoiding war is best, logistics and training are important, striking weakness | Strategy |
| Weapons of Math Destruction | O’Neil | Many fields are fille with algorithms that make decisions which are unfair, large scale, unclear and difficult to protest. Often they use incorrect assumptions or proxies and can be self-fulfilling and biased. | Bias, fairness |
| Braving the Wilderness | Brown | Book about being true to ones self and belonging. | relationships, belonging, emotional intelligence |
| The Bomber Mafia | Gladwell | Stories about push for air bombing technology in WWII – not meeting the objectives and having unintended impacts. | Strategy |
| Everything is F*cked | Manson | Overview of mental resilience/strength, hope, self control | mental health, motivation |
OK books
| Title | Author | Summary | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Together is Better | Sinek | Intended to be quickly read and passed along. Teams working together can achieve more and take more risks together. | Teamwork |
| Tribes | Godin | Tries to inspire others to lead groups of people with similar interest | leadership |
| Changing your Mind | Pollan | Book containing experiences about psychedelics and advocating for more research into potential beneficial effects when used with therapy. | Psychology? |
| Option B | Sandberg | Living & growing through trauma or bad situations. | Growth, resilience |
Mediocre books
| Title | Author | Summary | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Art of Saying No | Zahariades | Why we don’t say no, why we should and strategies to say no. | Assertion |