Main message: embrace the fluidity of digital-age businesses by working smarter, not longer hours.
Read twice from local library and gleaned a few nuggMain message: embrace the fluidity of digital-age businesses by working smarter, not longer hours.
Read twice from local library and gleaned a few nuggets to tune my existing mental models:
1. The most productive managers elevate the value of the work product (outcomes, results) versus pushing people to work *harder* (more hours, output-driven) 2. "Career lattice" to combine tours of duty with a goal to gain specific expertise (this is why I joined HubSpot, for marketing/sales/GTM) 3. “Pareto-optimal” means a generalist who is good in 2-3 areas (at least)...more
Inbound marketing is about providing value to build trust with your potential customers before engaging in a marketing or sales transaction. Though a Inbound marketing is about providing value to build trust with your potential customers before engaging in a marketing or sales transaction. Though a bit older now, tips and strategy are still relevant.
Stop pushing your message out and start pulling your customers in. ...more
I enjoyed this look at motivation, and the topics tie into other books I've enjoyed about mastery and thinking. The main idea is to find happiness andI enjoyed this look at motivation, and the topics tie into other books I've enjoyed about mastery and thinking. The main idea is to find happiness and a good fit at work by encouraging autonomy, mastery, and purpose. We should be motivated by things other than external "carrot and stick" rewards (like getting paid to do repetitive, routine tasks — and calling it a day).
One thing that hit home for me is when Pink mentions that if you are not doing creative, right-brain (slow, R-mode) thinking in your job — you won't be doing it for long. It's this type of thinking that brings value to the modern workplace.
Intrinsic motivations, something with a purpose, that you can get better at and master, and I'd add — this visibly and importantly *help people.* That's the purpose of what I do (writing and testing software).
I loved: Mastery can be alluring and frustrating at the same time. Life-long quest; no "bored" or retiring at age 50 for me....more
Summary: Love, be self-reliant, and choose life. The courage to be happy is the courage to be loved.
This second book from the same authors continues tSummary: Love, be self-reliant, and choose life. The courage to be happy is the courage to be loved.
This second book from the same authors continues the interchange between a wise old man and a young person. Their dialogue lays out Adlerian psychology's four objectives:
(Behavior) 1. To be self-reliant 2. To live in harmony with society
(Psychology) 3. The consciousness that I have the ability 3. The consciousness that people are my comrades
I love both of the books in this 2-part series as they are easy to read and understand, made practical first through the youth's family and love life, then via his educational situation where he is a teacher interacting with students.
Takeaway: The responsibility for my life is mine alone and to be courageous is to choose this life, be self-reliant, and give respect and love to those around me....more
Not a lot of new material, yet full of concrete and vivid examples of companies making the shift to shorter working hours.
Basic premise: Long hours arNot a lot of new material, yet full of concrete and vivid examples of companies making the shift to shorter working hours.
Basic premise: Long hours are not natural or inevitable and overwork is a global problem. Not to mention gender inequity as working mothers often earn less over their careers for lack of flexibility.
A shorter workweek is the modern “one weird trick” to solve the culture of overwork, gender inequity, and high costs of burnout and shortened careers. Constraints breed innovation to experiment with new ways of working using technology and automation.
Picked up at local library sight unseen, unrecommended....more
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