Category: Book Reviews
Paid to Think has 2 Good Ideas Wrapped in a Stack of Turtles
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So much of what we do in work is thinking. Yes, developers type code onto the “page” and that code is what clients think they’re paying for. The truth is that they’re paying for you to make smart decisions. Learning to make those smart decisions, with proper information, is what Paid to Think, by David…
Mark Manson Tells us To Stop Caring about So Much
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We’ll start this review with a disclaimer there is swearing in the quotes. That’s just the style of the author of the book. In the first chapter, it felt like he was using profanity just for shock factor, with some sentences so overloaded that it was almost comical. After that initial bit, it went way…
Resolve Conflicts by Playing Nice in Your Sandbox
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Nothing ever goes as smoothly as we’d like. There is always conflict at home and work, and we have to deal with it. Few of us have effective strategies to deal with the conflict though. You can find an audio version of this. Make sure you subscribe to Should I Read It so you don’t…
How You can Become a Linchpin in your Field
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023 – Linchpin While not all of us aspire to being some famous person that holds the keys to success in an industry, we all dream of being indispensable. Of being someone that is a leader in a small field. Even if that niche is obscure, being the person that is the “go to” in…
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is NOT an Effectively Written Book
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How is Eating an Ugly Frog the same as getting your work done?
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So, who wants to eat a big ugly frog? Not me, and probably not you. That’s why you should be eating it first thing every morning. Wait, really you should be doing your biggest ugliest task every morning first off because if you don’t it’s probably not going to get done. Well if you need…
Are You Coaching the Person or the Problem?
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There are three different parties in coaching Coach Person Problem According to Chad W. Hall, there are also three levels of coaching which he describes in Coach The Person Not The Problem. Beginner: Coach the Problem Better: Coach the Problem through the Person Transformational: Coach the Person for Internal Change Hall contends in this short…
Ryan Holiday’s Advice on What it Takes to Build Something that Sells Forever
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The dream of every creative is to do some work that lives on forever. Work that is referred to in the annals of their industry as a defining work. Something that continues to sell, more and more as the years go on. To build a perennial seller. That’s exactly what Ryan Holiday’s book, Perennial Seller,…
If You Want a Great Team, First Break All The Rules
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What are the unspoken rules of management? The ones you follow because you feel you should, even when you may have an inkling that they no longer apply? Stuff like, treat everyone the same, even when you know some of your people are amazing and can be trusted and others are terrible and likely shouldn’t…
Stop Being a Chronic Starter and Finish with the help of Jon Acuff
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How many projects have you started and never finished? Little bits of leftover code sitting around. Half written drafts of stories. That shelf you were supposed to build and still sits like a lurking troll in the garage. Yup we’ve all got some projects started and not finished around, but what if all you have…
