Diogenes

Effective Hiring Is The Most Important Management Practice

I am biased as I have been listening to Manager Tools, the podcast started by Mark Horstman and Mike Auzenne, since 2009. I have always learned from the actionable and precise guidance in the podcasts and Mark's books.

The book is not a collection of podcasts on hiring. Still, it does gather all the essentials on hiring from the podcats offering an essential guide for hiring managers. Mark's step-by-step approach makes the strategies easy to implement and helps ensure effective hiring for the practitioners. The book explores what it takes to hire the right person for the right job and team. All pre-offer activities are an effort to find reasons to say “no.”

I recommend this as an essential reading for any hiring manager.

I'll take the system and principles of Getting Things Done to my professional and personal life for the years!

I started reading while performing the system by my own, and is incredible the productivity boost I've got from work and the projects at home. Most importantly is the tranquility with which I can leave work every day or go to sleep every night without the feeling that something is forgotten because I know the system reminds me of “next actions” that I must take in the most convenient time and place.

The power of the key principles. Capturing Habit, Next-Action and, Outcome Focusing.

In my Capturing Habit stage, I feel like using a Pensieve from the Harry Potter series, taking off my mind everything that has to be remembered and clearing my RAM to have ideas and enjoy my current activity after all “Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.” -David Allen

“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time”.
The power of the Next-Action where overwhelming projects become a set of doable tasks, one by one is done until a big project is completed.

In my professional life and do to other experiences I was aware of the power of Outcome Focusing, where I trace back the steps from the End goal to my Next-Action.

I only wish I have finished this book when it was released and I personally think this system should be something though on High-School or as a common class in college.

In the future, I would certainly recommend this book to all my mentees.

The Bullet Journal Method is the promise of organized life.

I started my first this year along with my reading of this book, is like a next step to handle the Getting Things Done Method on a paper form.

Making a daily reflection on paper, leaving the screen for a couple of minutes a day gives a calm and a hope to give order to the whirlwind that is the daily grind of work and personal life. Looking back at the achievements of the day, and what's next gives me a sense of accomplishment lacking in the neverending scrolling of my digital ToDo list.

The lost star is because the chapters dedicated to general happiness, purpose, and meditations read kind of a filler on what would otherwise be a fully practical book.

I recommend this book for those productivity enthusiasts looking for the perfect agenda, template, pen, and notebook, and figuring out that the perfect template was there for you to create copy from the community of ‘BuJoists'.

This book is a homage to the secondary characters in a new Hope and exposes a mixture of perspectives. From the force allowing the tale of an adoptive mother, the intricacies of a Star Destroyer bureaucracy, the aftermath of a Stormtrooper not able to find the droids he was looking for, Imperials finding love in unusual places, many rebel stories about engineers, pilots, a consular on a diplomatic mission, and “a card player, gambler, scoundrel. You'd like him”.Low Ground:The book takes a sweet, lovely time getting out of Tatooine and in particular the cantina, reminiscent of [b:Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina 353479 Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (Star Wars) Kevin J. Anderson https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1383261295s/353479.jpg 343687].High Ground:I hate [a:Wil Wheaton 37075 Wil Wheaton https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1356706649p2/37075.jpg] the same way I hate Pixar for Coco, for the mechanic who sent her daughter away to a safer place.All the familiar places and faces around A New Hope and the force.

I looked forward and was expecting this book after the success entertainment I got from The Martian (and it's movie) I think is unfair to judge this book by its predecessor in mind, but I'm human and I'm doing it.
I found the character not as smart as it claims to be, rendering his misadventures predictable and with the same narrative formula used with The Martian but without the appeal of Mark Watney leaving a legacy to the world, this narrator has no audience with boring science and detailed explanations of welding “in space”!!!

The science in Artemis is as weak as the character development in the novel.

The Cat in the Hat, Dr Seuss
Being raised in Mexico I've never had the chance to truly read and experience the work of Dr. Seuss, (was he a medical doctor like Patch Adams? [joke]); so now I give that opportunity to my 13 month old son, he likes the experience of turning the pages.

The book certainly sells the illusion of childhood, of imaginary and magical friends who come when parents are gone and do nothing but mischief and using the same devices as they arrived revert everything to the status-quo they find he things in the first place.

I loved the rhythm and the confusion from Thing two and one, great book which should be in every child's library.

I can't wait for my son to begin enjoying the illustrations and reading of these books.

Last year, I read this book and then review it again this year to implement The 4DX at work.
As an Agilist, I found the principles embedded with the agile practices in teams following Scrum and Kanban.

Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important.
In line with the Product and Sprint goals, and made explicit in the Kanban Board by adding columns to accommodate the team's behavioral changes.

Discipline 2: Act on the Lead Measures
You can modify the Definition of Done to track behavioral changes on the team.

Discipline 3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard
The Boards you sue with your team will make the change of 4DX behavior obvious for the team.

Discipline 4: Create a Cadence of Accountability
Covered by the Daily Scrum, we can review the changes we want to achieve by adding a question related to the 4DX.

Maybe it's me forcing a subject into another, but I already experienced behavioral changes by using Agile practices on Development teams, and I can see the similarities in the principles.