Richard Smith

Beyond rewiring a complete perspective changer

Revisado: 12-09-19

Captivated through out. There is some very emotionally raw content. Lesson after lesson served with incredible live clips from the cases.
I will remember what I have learnt.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Magnificent read, incredible lives.

Revisado: 01-22-19

As a family this lot, got more than there fare share of drive. Admittedly most of the time they seemed to be running each other over.

What was incredible, was how so many of them made so much progress. Not a dull life between them.

it seems it doesn't matter what you believe as long as you believe it strongly. Change what you believe even but then do that with conviction also.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Unexpectedly Relaxing and helpful

Revisado: 10-18-18

I had no expectations, I just wanted to listen for an hour a day on my morning walk.

I have done that two days in a row now and I think it's going to work.

Even if it doesn't it's absolutely painless and very relaxing so I am going to keep doing it for the next two weeks to really let it sink in.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Accurate entertaining and brilliantly specific

Revisado: 07-30-18

Left a sickening feeling that this should have been a book higher on the priority list earlier in my career.

If you are in IT, you plan to be for the foreseeable future and you have not read this book the joke is on you.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Helpful scenario based dialogue

Revisado: 07-16-18

Very calming scenario based dialogue on the implementation of scrum and the problems with doing it properly and getting to done.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Great moments on a rather meandering Journey

Revisado: 11-29-16

There is a lot of good moments in this book but it's padded out a lot and that gets challenging. It has a philosophical speed about it with no intensity shifting to create the feeling of motion.

I think it needed more editing and a quicker pace.

I did enjoy the last 15 minutes, I usually listen to one book every two weeks this took me I think 8 weeks.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

The Message leaves a Rather Bleak Sinking Feeling

Revisado: 02-01-15

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

There is no doubt a lot of truth in the message of this book. Clearly when it was written there was a great need for ego depletion and there were far to many over sized personalities running the business world. The idea that you don't have enough time or money to change the way people think, so just pick the right people and throw those that are not on board off the bus sounds like an idea that might work in a world of contracted projects. However the book also suggests that you should only promote the quiet steady employee that puts only the greater good of the company at the center of his life to the driving seat. What the book doesn't tell you is where these characters which they say have appeared guiding companies to 300% improvement can be found and why they would be that way.

I read this book because it was given a high rating by a lot of my work associates but I did not really feel that it took my base line of knowledge a lot further forward. It lacks the human factor that I want to see combined with good analysis.

Did Good to Great inspire you to do anything?

It was one of those books that inspired me to read a lot of other books to quickly regain perspective and balance as it really did leave me with a sinking feeling.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 2 personas

Beautifully Balanced Mind Opening Read

Revisado: 07-07-14

Would you consider the audio edition of The Righteous Mind to be better than the print version?

I would but that is because I read a screen all day and I am not a subject matter expert in this field. To be able to spend time in another persons mind whilst staring off into the distance on my morning and evening commute works well for me.

What did you like best about this story?

Chapter 5 the Very large Elephant and the very small rider was a big hit with me. I was very impressed with the six foundations for politics. The Hive switch is particularly hot in the work place now as is a common set of beliefs. I got to the end and felt that there was a tangible road map built into this story that could make a difference. Having gone through it once I will be revisiting a number of chapters.

What does Jonathan Haidt bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

This is 13 hours of audio but the amount of time and patience it must have taken to lay out the findings the way he has, when he had already been through his own personal discovery and changes in thinking is exceptional. People that are capable of following bread crumbs like this do not in my experience tell the story well. I felt a personal connection to the author as a result of it being read by him and felt a strong appreciation for the amount of work he put into this book

If you could give The Righteous Mind a new subtitle, what would it be?

The first two lines of the Robert Frost poem come to mind quickest:

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both

Not sure if you would ever be able to reword it better or equally as well but for me this explains it best. Particularly with the apologetic nature of having to decide which side of the fence you stand on whilst being able to understand those on the other side.

Any additional comments?

I was surprised at how few visuals there were. When you think how newspapers adapted to keep people aware of political differences, they use cartoons then there was spitting image which is old material now but still the idea is sound. I understand that it is a serious work but throwing a little comedy in from a political cartoonist may have greased the rails a little. Not that I would have seen them because I chose the audio book and downloaded the PDF but you get the point.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña