Books
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Comfort Reads
→: Comfort ReadsI really believe in the power of a good novel as an escape from Real Life. Some of my recent(ish) favorites I’ve been recommending. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston – an absolutely beautiful novel, I loved it. Somali Dev’s Austin inspired series – I adore this series about an Indian immigrant family, each one…
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Book: The Problem with Change
→: Book: The Problem with ChangeI think the thing I enjoyed most about Ashley Goodall’s The Problem with Change is the author’s cynicism about corporate America. In places it’s a little bit of a diatribe, but what can I say, I love it. I love it all the more that it comes from someone who successfully navigated the Byzantine ladder…
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Book: The Stake
→: Book: The StakeThe Stake [Amazon] is the book about the CoActive Leadership program. It’s written in a different way, from the other books from the perspective of the people taking it and the journeys they go on. As a result, it’s more engaging to read and the application and impact more clear. One of the most important…
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Audio book now available!
→: Audio book now available!Exciting news, the audio book of The Engineering Leader is out! Available on Amazon or wherever you buy audio books.
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Book: The Outward Mindset
→: Book: The Outward MindsetMy coach recommended The Outward Mindset, from the Arbginger institute, same as Leadership and Self Deception (one of my all time most impactful books) and The Anatomy of Peace. It feels in many ways a continuation of those ideas, but more team/business oriented. The first part of the book focuses on the impact of mindset,…
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[LeadDev BookMarked] The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself: Cate Huston in conversation
→: [LeadDev BookMarked] The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself: Cate Huston in conversationI did a webinar with Suzan Bond for LeadDev/BookMarked talking about the ideas from my book and some bonus ideas on how to be seen as strategic.
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Book: Thinking in Bets
→: Book: Thinking in BetsI bought Thinking in Bets (Amazon) a while ago, April 2020 to be precise. It finally made it’s way out of my endless “to read” pile because I was having something of a crisis of confidence about my own decision making. Some key thing that stood out. Separating analysis of the result from the decision…
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Book: Machiavelli for Women
→: Book: Machiavelli for WomenI’m unsure what I think about Machiavelli for Women (Amazon). There were things that I appreciated, and things that were infuriating. To be fair, the things I found infuriating were mostly also things the author herself notes as infuriating, saying her goal with the book is to articulate what works as things are, not what…
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Book: The Alchemy of Us
→: Book: The Alchemy of UsI heard about The Alchemy of Us (Amazon) when the author (Ainissa Ramirez) was on the Broad Experience podcast, talking about her work in Science Communications and the challenges of being a Black woman in science (great episode). I immediately bought the book, and then took… 8 months to get to reading it. It’s a…