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Productivity is Efficiency x Effectiveness

Posted in Book Recomendation, Business, Personal Productivity on April 29, 2016| 1 Comment »

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Book Rec: The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker

Productivity

The Effective Executive stands as a simple strong lighthouse guiding us away from cheap productivity hacks, time squandering multi-tasking, and good projects that are the enemy of great projects.

Here is a work problem for you to chew on:

Productivity = Effectiveness x Efficiency

This book is helpful because, it clearly describes that of those two inputs, effectiveness is far more important. 

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What’s My Next Move?

Posted in Book Recomendation, Book Review, Business, Strategy, tagged , , , , on February 16, 2015| 4 Comments »

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 Book Recommendation:

“Lessons in the Fundamentals of GO“

by Toshiro Kageyama, 7-Dan

 

 

Four parts to this post

  1. Heuristics

  2. Excerpts

  3. Challenge

  4. Meta

 

 

Heuristics // Games –> the Grind

 

You want to display how smart a character is in a story?

Show them mulling over a  strategy game.

Now, just because you love playing RISK on Friday nights doesn’t make you a brilliant military strategist. Even still, I think applying heuristics from strategy games can give us a helpful point of view for how we approach our work.

 

Let’s consider the game, GO.

 

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How is your “success” making you fail?

Posted in Book Review, Business, tagged , on February 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »

 
 
​​Book Review: “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” by Marshall Goldsmith​​
 
 
Meta
 

  • Who would benefit from reading this book? Someone who is willing to conduct a piercing evaluation of behaviors that could be holding them back personally and professionally. 

 

  • Time to Read: I was able to read this book in about two weeks. 

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