Conspiracy Theories, Explained
https://www.vox.com/21558524/conspiracy-theories-2020-qanon-covid-conspiracies-why
It’s an escape for people who are not so tolerant of uncertainty.
People who adopt the conspiratorial mindset derive …
Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler
What do I really want for myself? What do I really want for others? What do I really want for the relationship?
Once you’ve asked yourself what you want, add one more equally telling question: How …
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and …
Developing a Management Philosophy
http://ryan-rushing.com/writing/developing-a-management-philosophy
In HBR, Carol A. Walker points out that:
“…having a core philosophy can help guide you through the day-to-day and the job’s tougher …
Dog Sense by John Bradshaw
After many millennia in which the dog has been man’s closest animal companion, cats are taking over as the most popular pet in many countries, including the United States. Why is this happening?
The …
Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy
Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth. The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key …
Essays - First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
No anchor, no cable, no fences avail to keep a fact a fact. Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction. The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, …
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
For leaders, the humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success. The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas. They are simply focused on …
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/
The social web is doing exactly what it was built for. Facebook does not exist to seek truth and report it, or …
Focusing Is an Art, Not a Science
https://fs.blog/2017/03/focusing-art-not-science/
What do you do that creates value in your career? And more than that, what are you doing that’s going to have a cumulative effect, that’s really going …
Graceful by Seth Godin
A graceful person gets things done, but does it in a way you’d be happy to have repeated.
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.
Second, interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. …
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
The motto I’m advocating is “Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
Henry Ford said that “anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Favoring …
How to Criticize With Kindness
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism/
How to compose a successful critical commentary:You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, …
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
by giving a name to the feeling they’ll make it …
How We Survive Winter
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/20/us/how-to-survive-winter.html
The great irony of winter is that the moment darkness is greatest is also the moment light is about to return. Each year …
Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute
Because when I’m blaming them, I’m not doing it because they need to improve; I’m blaming them because their shortcomings justify my failure to improve.
Knowing the material Self-betrayal leads to …
Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
“No one has yet figured out how to manage people effectively into battle; they must be led,” wrote John Kotter
Most of the concerns we hear about iterative development involve fears that an iterative …
Manager OKRs, Maker OKRs: How Early Stage Startups Should Think About Goal-Setting
https://hunterwalk.medium.com/manager-okrs-maker-okrs-how-startups-should-think-about-goal-setting-7be87195fadc
One Month — “What are we building this month” is the key question. Team leads get …