"If you see a book you want, just buy it. Don’t worry about the price. Reading is not a luxury. It’s not something you splurge on. It’s a necessity. Even if all you get is one life-changing idea from a book, that’s still a pretty good ROI." - Ryan Holiday In November I completed five books, bringing my total to 77 for the year. 👍 "Company of One" by Paul Jarvis 👍 "Scaling People" by Claire Hughes Johnson 👍 "Seize the Fire" by Adam Nicolson "The Nation That Never Was" by Kermit Roosevelt III "Tribal Leadership" by Dave Logan "Company of One" had a lot of good principles for people who run small businesses, centering around focusing on your customers to deliver strong value, enabling viable profit for a small company. "Scaling People" has great tactical details for being a leader and running ops. What are the operating systems to coordinate effort across large numbers of people? "Seize the Fire" was a good look at a the Battle of Trafalgar where Admiral Nelson died. A lot of it was...gross. Naval warfare in the early 1800s was brutal. 🤢 ⭐ - What did you read last month?
Ryan Thompson
3mo
One of the books I read last month was "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni. Some great and very practical insights on leadership and collaboration! One of my current reads this month is "Good to Great" by Jim Collins, which has been on my shelf for several years and finally the time was right to crack that one open :) Great read thus far!
Geoffrey Pidcock
3mo
"The unaccountability machine", Kevin - a good overview of cybernetics which argues that modern organisations can't handle variability or change due to the hollowing out of "middle management". One question- how do you balance reading, or intake of information, with writing, or the synthesis of applied knowledge?
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3moDo you ever flip back and forth between book - or, just finish one and then move to the next? Ever buy a book and then just not read it, too?