Brendan's Reflections

  • 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 motivator.  Both physical, and psychological KITAs are examined, and of the latter he notes “since…

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  • 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 new team, I’m starting with the volume “On Managing People”. The first article in the…

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  • 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 contents are lightweight.  Although Spolsky has a very casual writing style, the ideas in the…

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