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A review of “One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees”, by Frederick Herzberg
This is the second article in the volume “On Managing People” in Harvard Business Review’s collection of Must Reads. Frederick Herzberg This article was originally published in 1968. Herzberg begins by examining the classic Kick In The Ass (KITA) as … Continue reading
A review of “Leadership That Gets Results”, by Daniel Goleman
As a sort of poor-man’s MBA I’m planning to work my way through Harvard Business Review’s “HBR’s Must Reads”, a 6-volume collection of curated articles on business. Since I’m relatively new to management and find myself building and managing a … Continue reading
Joel Spolsky’s “Smart and Gets Things Done”
I picked this book up because of a recommendation from a colleague at work. We’d been working on developing an interviewer training course. First of all, this is a terrible cover. The cartoon images makes it seem like the … Continue reading
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