High Output Management

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High output management

Hiya, I'd consider these books/articles/podcasts: * Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinberg: http://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Consulting_Secrets.html Every problem is a people problem. * Refactoring by Martin Fowler et. al: https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html talks about how and why to refactor, as well as providing a nomenclature for the process. * Code Complete by Steve McConnell. https://stevemcconnell.com/books/ A bit dated (the last version I could find was from 2004) but a great overview of the entire software process, from requirements to maintenance. * The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brookes: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mythical-man-month-the/... (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mythical-man-month-the/0201835959/) best practices about software development, written about a project from the 1960 and 1970s. * The Joel On Software Strategy Letters: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-... (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-ben-and-jerrys-vs-amazon/) is the first one. All of them (I think there are five) are great.…

High Output Management was an interesting read. Grove took timeless computer architecture techniques and mapped it onto management.

* Fooled By Randomness (NN Taleb): Taleb is a complicated personality, but this book gave me a heuristic for thinking about long-tails and uncertain events that I could never have derived myself from a probability textbook. * Designing Data Intensive Applications (M Kleppmann): Provided a first-principles approach for thinking about the design of modern large-scale data infrastructure. It's not just about assembling different technologies -- there are principles behind how data moves and transforms that transcend current technology, and DDIA is an articulation of those principles. After reading this, I began to notice general patterns in data infrastructure, which helped me quickly grasp how new technologies worked. (most are variations on the same principles) * Introduction to Statistical Learning (James et al) and Applied Predictive Modeling (Kuhn et al). These two books gave me a grand sweep of predictive modeling methods pre-deep learning, methods which continue to be useful and applicable to a wider variety of problem contexts than AI/Deep Learning. (neural networks aren't appropriate for huge classes of problems)…

I would like to start with: High Output Management Grove, Andrew S. 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People Covey, Stephen R Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship,(Robert C. Martin) Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series) Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua If you have read any of them and you would like to share your thoughts, I will be truly happy to listen!:) Happy reading

These are a few of the ones I read this year and that the average HN reader would also probably enjoy (links are to my blog): * Why We Sleep: https://j11g.com/2019/05/31/why-we-sleep-matthew-walker/ * The Effective Executive: https://j11g.com/2019/03/18/the-effective-executive-peter-dr... (https://j11g.com/2019/03/18/the-effective-executive-peter-drucker/) * High Output Management: https://j11g.com/2019/01/29/high-output-management-andrew-s-... (https://j11g.com/2019/01/29/high-output-management-andrew-s-grove/) * Bad Blood: https://j11g.com/2019/01/21/bad-blood-john-carreyrou/ * The 7 Habits (I reread this after a long time and it still holds up!) https://j11g.com/2019/09/30/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective... (https://j11g.com/2019/09/30/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people-stephen-covey/) * A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace (This is just an amazing book and became one of my all time favorites) https://j11g.com/2019/08/08/a-supposedly-fun-thing-ill-never... (https://j11g.com/2019/08/08/a-supposedly-fun-thing-ill-never-do-again-david-foster-wallace/)

I'm reading High Output Management by Andy Grove at the moment. Definitely one of the best practical guides on being a leader and a people manager I've ever read.

High Output Management by Andy Grove. Great resource that I re-read every year or so

I think this is a more complicated question that it first appears. What do you mean by leadership? Getting things done for some strict definition? Managing a team? Managing a huge enterprise? I think reading books across the spectrum of leadership and management is critical, as each gives you some feeling of the underlying “truth” that you’re trying to find. I think the best book on the topic as I think you mean it is High Output Management by Andy Grove. It’s a classic. Incredibly well written. Direct. From there, I’d actually take a pivot and read MCDP 1 Warfighting, which is concise, brilliant, generally applicable, and completely aligned with the thinking of Grove. Along the same lines, I’d consider reading about OODA (I like “Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War” but not strictly necessary to read an entire biography). I think then you start to see that “Management” began to mean something particular in the post-war era for those who could see it, that it’s been lost in most organizations. Agile, lean, blah blah blah is all sort of derived from here.…

Flow https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-... (https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061339202) Antifragile https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince... (https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incerto/dp/0812979680) High Output Management https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/d... (https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884) The Master Switch https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire... (https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993) Thinking Fast and Slow https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp... (https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555)

My recent favorites: Jobs, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, High Output Management, Innovator's Dilemma, Lean Startup, On The Shortness Of Life, How Google Works, Zero To One, Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Power of Habit, Things Fall Apart, Stoner

The Goal. If you're interested in project management, Making Things Happen is good. I've just started High Output Management and so far it seems good. Of course there are always the classics like Good to Great, What Color Is Your Parachute, etc

Great question. Reminds me of what Samuel Johnson had to say about Paradise Lost ("great, but nobody ever wished it was longer") My $0.02: Andy Groves - High Output Management fits your bill Most Seneca Robert Frost poems (but maybe S/N is TOO high for comfortable consumption here)