Leadership Is Language

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1. kqrApr 2022
   Some authors take multiple books to fully flesh out the ideas outlined in the first, so there are some doubles recommended here.

   I also found it impossible to rank books, so instead I took roughly the top 20, grouped them into themes, and then ranked the themes based on how important I think they are.

   1. Deming is the primary writer of the type of management we need to be competitive: Deming, The New Economics & Out of the Crisis.

   2. There is a wide variety of ways for humans to organise. Nobody is forcing the default capitalist bureaucracy on you, so be creative: Graeber, Bullshit Jobs & Dawn of Everything & The Democracy Project.

   3. How people are motivated: Pink, Drive.

   4. How to create a high-trust, less authoritarian, open, collaborative environment within a traditional hierarchy: Marquet, Leadership is Language.

   5. Communication: Voss, Never Split the Difference. Faber, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen.

   6. How to help organisations who don't want to admit what their problem is: Weinberg, Secrets of Consulting.

   7. How to structure organisations and processes to deliver maximum value: Reinertsen, Principles of Product Development Flow. Ward, Lean Product and Process Development. Womack, Machine That Changed the World.

   8. How to innovate cheaply: Westrum, Sidewinder.

   9. How to estimate things properly: Hubbard, How to Measure Anything. Tetlock, Superforecasting. Savage, The Flaw of Averages.

   10. How to train people to be experts at things: Hoffman, Accelerated Learning.

   11. How people fail at decisions: Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow & Noise.

   I had to leave out a few about statistics, causality inference, project portfolio investment that didn't make the top 20 cut.

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2. afarrellMar 2021
   ADHD-PI here. I use a version of Pomodoro technique with adaptations inspired by Leadership is Language by David Marquet and by what Prof. Andrew Huberman says about Dopamine.

   Blue: Come up with my intended outcome. Set a duration from 10 to 45 minutes in proportion to my intuitive confidence that I am “on the right path”.

   If I am spending too long in blue, then say the thing I’m most anxious about. State a hypothesis about it and frame my intended outcome as a test of that hypothesis.

   Red: Execute at speed while still noting any surprises in a notebook.

   Blue: Reflect on what I’ve produced and what I’ve learned. Notice any errors I made and think (without typing) about what led to them.

   Green: 2-5 minutes meditation. Reconnect with my breath and body. Control my internal sense of time pressure.

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   Sidenote: I highly recommend both Leadership is Language and the Huberman Lab podcast to ADHDers and folks who just have struggles turning their intentions into action.

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