Thousands of books summarized into 5 bullet points. While helpful, never forget that context is EVERYTHING.
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Thousands of books summarized into 5 bullet points. While helpful, never forget that context is EVERYTHING.
I once took an interview for a role that was well above my skills, experience and background level, during one of the rounds, the interviewer gave me some constructive criticism and suggested I read this book. To this day it sits on my shelf, and think back to at the lessons I learned from it, and the experience it has now given me to manage teams and people more effectively.
If you have or don’t have a leadership role, looking to advance your career or simply understand a workforce better, I would highly encourage giving this a quick read.
Here are a couple of notes from the book which really resonated with me.
Key take aways which I should look further into:
5 strategies to encourage task completion:
Here are a few key take aways from this short Ted Talk:
Higher incentives led to worse performance
Mechanical skills = the higher the skill the higher the pay
Cognitive skill = opposite
3 items:
It’s a relevant and intriguing story of how one employee at Kroger, Michael Kullen, wrote a 6 page letter to a Kroger VP, encouraging them to consider a different business model. He was not taken seriously, resigned from Kroger and opened his own grocery chain called King Kullen. It is considered Americas First Supermarket due to it having separate departments; self-service; discount pricing; chain marketing; and volume dealing. In 2007 King Kullen had revenues of $800 million and operates 32 stores in New York state.
A list of books I have read. (Currently in a draft state)
Printed for Dad’s 61st Birthday!