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Ben Watson: Writing High-Performance .NET Code (2018, Ben Watson) 4 stars

Writing High-Performance .NET Code by Ben Watson is the best-selling book about understanding the fundamentals …

Good example code, gets into weeds in a good way

4 stars

Ben did a great job on the first edition of this book by providing context and sample material, with GitHub links so you can try everything out for yourself. He gets pretty into the weeds on several aspects of .NET code. This book is not for someone who writes simple APIs or web apps that do not contain a ton of non-CRUD type C# code. This book is for someone doing I/O intensive operations that really needs to squeeze more performance out of their code without simply turning up the scale dial.

Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee: Primal leadership : realizing the power of emotional intelligence (2002) 4 stars

Review of 'Primal leadership : realizing the power of emotional intelligence' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Primal Leadership is an in-depth look and analysis based on a collection of Harvard Business Review (HBR) articles and books. It's split into 3 parts; the first is incredibly lucid and valuable. The second part repeats many of the same points in the previous, detailing trivial examples that you cannot apply in your own position. It's overly generalized and would make you ask, "Oh, interesting. I see details A, B, and C. But how did they get from C to Z?"

In the first part, the book lays out the foundation for the idea of how Emotionally Intelligent leaders are the best leaders, detailing what makes up the different areas. Some leaders are good at some, but not others. The best leaders have some qualities of all. Emotionally intelligent leaders are consequently high in IQ (usually). EI leaders will drive to create resonance in their organizations, as opposed to dissonance, …

Simon Sinek: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (2011, Portfolio) 4 stars

Review of 'Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Sinek starts off strong with anecdotes from various success stories and gets into his method of focusing on WHY instead of WHAT or HOW, and how it all builds together. By about half way through the book it quickly becomes repetitive, and it’s almost as if Sinek has a love affair with Apple. This book needs to be updated and the Apple fanboyism needs to be toned down.