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Effective Hiring Is The Most Important Management Practice
I am biased as I have been listening to Manager Tools, the podcast started by Mark Horstman and Mike Auzenne, since 2009. I have always learned from the actionable and precise guidance in the podcasts and Mark's books.
The book is not a collection of podcasts on hiring. Still, it does gather all the essentials on hiring from the podcats offering an essential guide for hiring managers. Mark's step-by-step approach makes the strategies easy to implement and helps ensure effective hiring for the practitioners. The book explores what it takes to hire the right person for the right job and team. All pre-offer activities are an effort to find reasons to say “no.”
I recommend this as an essential reading for any hiring manager.
The Bullet Journal Method is the promise of organized life.
I started my first this year along with my reading of this book, is like a next step to handle the Getting Things Done Method on a paper form.
Making a daily reflection on paper, leaving the screen for a couple of minutes a day gives a calm and a hope to give order to the whirlwind that is the daily grind of work and personal life. Looking back at the achievements of the day, and what's next gives me a sense of accomplishment lacking in the neverending scrolling of my digital ToDo list.
The lost star is because the chapters dedicated to general happiness, purpose, and meditations read kind of a filler on what would otherwise be a fully practical book.
I recommend this book for those productivity enthusiasts looking for the perfect agenda, template, pen, and notebook, and figuring out that the perfect template was there for you to create copy from the community of ‘BuJoists'.
Highly recommended for any professional to transition from one position to another or from one company to the next.
I started reading this book as I made a major transition, changing city, company, and industry. It helped me document, organize, and act on an effective onboarding, have effective communication with my new manager and learn the ins and outs of my new company.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Last year, I read this book and then review it again this year to implement The 4DX at work.
As an Agilist, I found the principles embedded with the agile practices in teams following Scrum and Kanban.
Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important.
In line with the Product and Sprint goals, and made explicit in the Kanban Board by adding columns to accommodate the team's behavioral changes.
Discipline 2: Act on the Lead Measures
You can modify the Definition of Done to track behavioral changes on the team.
Discipline 3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard
The Boards you sue with your team will make the change of 4DX behavior obvious for the team.
Discipline 4: Create a Cadence of Accountability
Covered by the Daily Scrum, we can review the changes we want to achieve by adding a question related to the 4DX.
Maybe it's me forcing a subject into another, but I already experienced behavioral changes by using Agile practices on Development teams, and I can see the similarities in the principles.
A must-read for anyone who wants to start investing.
This book made me rethink my investing strategy even when the data is dated as of 2007, many of the facts used then to establish a common sense investing plan and predates the 2008 depression and the modern no-fee transaction firms of today, just the fact that taxing between daily trading and long term investing with Index ETFs makes a difference I hadn't considered before.
This book is a homage to the secondary characters in a new Hope and exposes a mixture of perspectives. From the force allowing the tale of an adoptive mother, the intricacies of a Star Destroyer bureaucracy, the aftermath of a Stormtrooper not able to find the droids he was looking for, Imperials finding love in unusual places, many rebel stories about engineers, pilots, a consular on a diplomatic mission, and “a card player, gambler, scoundrel. You'd like him”.Low Ground:The book takes a sweet, lovely time getting out of Tatooine and in particular the cantina, reminiscent of [b:Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina 353479 Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (Star Wars) Kevin J. Anderson https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1383261295s/353479.jpg 343687].High Ground:I hate [a:Wil Wheaton 37075 Wil Wheaton https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1356706649p2/37075.jpg] the same way I hate Pixar for Coco, for the mechanic who sent her daughter away to a safer place.All the familiar places and faces around A New Hope and the force.
I looked forward and was expecting this book after the success entertainment I got from The Martian (and it's movie) I think is unfair to judge this book by its predecessor in mind, but I'm human and I'm doing it.
I found the character not as smart as it claims to be, rendering his misadventures predictable and with the same narrative formula used with The Martian but without the appeal of Mark Watney leaving a legacy to the world, this narrator has no audience with boring science and detailed explanations of welding “in space”!!!
The science in Artemis is as weak as the character development in the novel.
I found the model of this book interesting about how both mindsets affect our daily lives and the research made to define them.
And the interest ends there, I find the author tries to validate the model she came up with tons tired of historical references and research made to prove other topics but she accommodates her idea to them.
I mean again, I like the model and the ideas. The exhaustive use of examples to settle the difference between fixed mindset (losers) and growth mindset (winners) turn like an oversell of her own research which gets confused with anecdotical references and research are done by other people to prove other theories but she finds a fit for her model anyway.
And she does mention at some point that having either mind set doesn't imply a good or bad behavior per se. however, in the relationship chapter every fixed mindset example ended in a divorce or a miserable relationship and the sports and business chapters all the fixed mindset people tend to be losers in the end and everyone that has a growth mindset ended up saving their marriage or winning in their careers because of the growth mindset she identifies.
I would recommend someone to read about the model proposed here while staying away from a tiresome narrative and the use of research and examples to validate her point.
David uses his experience with implementing Kanban in during a decade, using Kanban and its lean approach to empower teams to perform under Agile methodologies.
I love that this book does an in-depth analysis and explanation on how to create and operate a development team with Kanban. What I think this book lacks is research as is based on a few project filled with anectodical experience and like many products in the industry some of those teams/companies are no longer in the picture so the true value of kanban is lost in time.
I recommend this book for those who want to widen their experience with Agile methodologies and go beyond Scrum or XP as the most famous Agile implementations, Kanban has its place advantages and disadvantages and is now a valuable tool in my belt.
Personally defining the concepts in this product it helped me to lead a team go beyond a board and convert them into a Kanban team with Agile principles on each of the members of the team.
I recommend this book to anyone interested or in the transition to becoming a manager.
This was one of the firsts books I bought when I just became a manager and help me to follow the lead of the great managers, with examples and ideas appropriate to any managerial title and placing a focus on the team of people who actually does the work.
The 4 Keys in this book have been essential in my professional career to lead team success.
It took me a while to finish this book and as with many other books I should've finished it earlier.
I got this book if only because it was free. Then when I started reading it gave me hope, since it promised not to make me buy unnecessary and expensive storage solutions only to suggest to buy boxes and storage solutions for closets and the kitchen and the bathroom.
More than a book it seems like a long blog post with the “10 things that...” which leads me to the lowest point of the book when Beth makes a list of her “resources” more like a google first page results when you search for organization blogs, I mean, she used Buzzfeed as a reference!!! Really a click bait article!!
Please save yourself some time and do a google search.
This book works like a charm, the first nights my wife or I read it son got distracted with every turn of the page and after the fourth night the book started to work. My son gets more and more relaxed as the story goes on, we barley reach the end of the book as he fells sleep with the story.
An excellent book I recommend it for small children who don't know how to get to sleep when they get tired from all the running during the day.
