How successful people become even more successful
Published Jan. 31, 2013 by Profile Books Ltd.
Great, short read. It's not what I expected when I had seen it recommended. I thought it was going to be about how to adjust your strategy in business. It's not that at all. The point is how to be a better person, and it has some great advice.
One of the easiest pieces of advice to implement is to say "thank you" instead of getting defensive.
– originally written 2021-06-30
The central theme is that the qualities that make a good worker are different from the qualities that make a good boss. It's not just doing the same stuff better. One specific example that really hit home was that a good employee offers several different ideas for how they could solve a problem. When a boss throws several different options at a worker, it's overwhelming and confusing. Since reading this book I've gotten a lot more direct about asking for the outcome I want, then being quiet about the various ways the other person could execute. Also, a great piece of advice from this book: find out what is the most annoying thing you do. Stop doing it.
