Diogenes

Great listen on how management applies to IT, even when some of the chapters are 20+ years old the similarities with the people in the IT Industry remain to this day.

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.

It was ok. just ok.

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'.

The art is fantastic, and the interactions between Batman and Constantine are nothing I have ever seen before done for Batman.

The story is nightmarish, and the plot is so-so.