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Sunday Review: Built to Last by Jim Collins
I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]
Sunday Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Corn. We consume a ton of it. Well written.
Sunday Review: Tribes by Seth Godin
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Solid book on building cult around your brand. Simple and quick read.
Sunday Review: The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Great practical advice on how to become a better programmer. If you write code [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged discipline, excellence, pair programming, programming, reading
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Sunday Book Review: Getting Things Done by David Allen
humbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: So simple, yet so powerful. We used to purchase this book and issue [...]
Sunday Book Review: User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Best book on the market about writing user stories. Mike makes agile easy [...]
Sunday Book Review: Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Too clinical of a writing style made it hard to stay engaged, but content [...]
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Tagged Community, discipline, excellence, incentives, influence, motivation, reading
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Sunday Book Review: The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Motley Crue
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Completely decadent and way better written than expected. Why did I wait so [...]
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Tagged business, confessions, Creativity, decadence, excellence, innovation, motivation, motley crue, music, reading, relationships
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Sunday Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Building Teams and Leading them is very simple, but very difficult. Reminds me [...]
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Tagged discipline, dysFUNctional, excellence, incentives, leadership, motivation, politics, Productivity, reading, teams, teamwork, theory
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Sunday Book Review: This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: This book spent a lot of time about the technical aspects of music and [...]
