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2025 Reading Goal

5% complete! paven has read 1 of 20 books.

Simon Sinek: Start with Why (Paperback, 2011, Penguin Books Ltd) 3 stars

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action is a book by …

I really like parts of this book. I like the idea of finding your why and let that drive your path forward. I like how this books makes me think about that.

I am skeptical about the described dichotomy of why and how people, i have many friends who is both of the why and the how concern. I also find the USA concentric world view to be boring. Like apple inventing the alternative to carriers dictating what features phones have, while the world had that for years before apple brought it to USA.

reviewed Summer Knight by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files, #4)

Jim Butcher: Summer Knight (Paperback, 2002, ROC) 4 stars

Ever since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, …

Review of 'Summer Knight' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I love the setting, I do not love the main character and the tone of the writing. But I am curious about the world so I will read more.

Patrick Lencioni: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Hardcover, 2002, Jossey-Bass) 4 stars

After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, …

Review of 'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I expected more. Sure the story was interesting. But it did not convince me rather it made me question the model, by involving things like Mayer - bridge and Messiah leadership style.