Tag Archives: Management

Good to Great by Jim Collins (book cover)
Good to Great Review: Memorable Lessons, Shaky Evidence

Collins offers sticky, useful management concepts, but his research looks backward, and several of his [...]

The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford (book cover)
The Phoenix Project Review: DevOps Taught as a Workplace Thriller

A business novel that makes DevOps ideas stick through a painfully familiar IT crisis, though [...]

The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (book cover)
The Hard Thing About Hard Things Review: A CEO’s Honest Survival Guide

Horowitz's candid account of nearly losing his company gives founders rare, practical advice on layoffs, [...]

Principles by Ray Dalio
Principles Review: Ray Dalio’s Rulebook for Life and Work

Dalio's system for learning from mistakes is genuinely useful, but the book is bloated with [...]

High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove (book cover)
High Output Management Review: Andy Grove’s Manual for Managers

One of the most practical management books ever written, packed with tools like one-on-ones and [...]

The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The Mythical Man-Month Review: Why Late Projects Get Later

Fifty years on, Brooks's essays still explain why software projects slip, though the mainframe-era examples [...]