I quite like Nathan Lozeron's quick video summaries of the Learning Points

[Phil]

Hello fellow readers,

I recently found a video series from Nathan Lozeron, who distils the important learning points from business / management books into 7-minute vids with an animation to aid (helps a lot with my flagging mental retention these days!)

This one about 'Peak' is particularly useful for deciding if you'll give it a read.

http://www.theleadershiphub.com/book-...

Any thoughts?

[Dominic]

Phil wrote: "
I recently found a video series ... who distils the important learning points from business / management books into 7-minute vids..."

Thanks Phil - that is a useful resource! Was there much in the book that the video didn't cover?

[Phil]

Sorry for the delay in replying, Dominic, only just saw your question.

Yes there is much in the book that isn't covered in the video - that's the point of the videos Nathan produces; to distill out the most relevant useful learning and leave 'much' behind.

The commercial book summary services leave in the 'much' in many cases. Lozeron (I have no connection with him, but have read enough books that he distills to now trust his distillation of the books I have not read) uses his judgement to pick out the essence - the essential learning.

And he doesn't charge. For a better service than the commercial services that do charge, but parrot the book rather than read and report on it using critical thinking.

He becomes a trusted advisor or mediator or filter for me by taking his own viewpoint. There are very few around.

If we see all of us as potential parts of a neural network, we are ceding some of our own filtering role to another party and that relies on trust gained through first assessing their output.

So, I outsource part of my filtering to him. I trust his brain to do what previously part of my own did alone. Because, like all of us, I don't have the capacity to deal with the over-production of books and other writings (like this overlong note I'm writing here).

Or you can feel the only valid thing to do is read every leadership and management book, which might be what you are hinting at, which would make yours a passive-aggressive question: rather than a straightforward request for information , your hidden question would in that scenario be "Have you read the book? Let's try and flush that out with an innocent-sounding question?"

I wouldn't for a second think that of you, though, Dominic :)

You can either trust distillers like Nathan (and there are very few around I would trust) to find the relevant parts and leave it at that, on the grounds that NO=ONE has the time to read all the leadership and management books produced (including yours and mine).

Or you use Nathan's work as a pre-filter when deciding what to read, as I said in the original comment:

"This one about 'Peak' is particularly useful for deciding if you'll give it a read."

Hope that's enough of an answer.

Although this answer is now several hundred words more 'out there' that the rest of us simply don't have time to read and absorb.... :)

[Dominic]

Just a straightforward question Phil - thanks for providing such a comprehensive response. Not having come across the video producer before, nor having read the book, I wanted a sense of how 'much' the video contained. Thanks.

[Kim]

Phil, thanks so much for this! Nathan is a goldmine ... I'd write more, but I'm addicted! Next up? Josh Kauffman's Personal MBA (which I've already read, but look forward to what Nathan has to say!)
Kim