6/22/2023 0 Comments First break all the rules bookEven if it was possible, it has to come from the inside - It can't be imposed from the outside by a manager. Even if it was worthwhile, its not possible within the time scope of just a couple years. It's not worthwhile for a job which will last five. That's worth doing for a marriage you intend to last fifty years. It's a years-long process with much groaning, false starts, and ten-steps-forward-but-nine-steps-back, and even then, its really just upgrading that characteristic from a two out of ten to a five out of ten. I know I have in the last ten years of our marriage, because I love my wife and it was important to our marriage. I hold that it IS possible to change your personality, and to fix your flaws. The first is: A whole lot of management is aimed at trying to fix people's weaknesses. It could have been a 50 page pamphlet and lost nothing - its only a 300+ page book because we have a social convention that books ought to be a certain yea-thick rectangular shape, and we feel gypped if we paid full price and didn't get enough book for our money.īut I credit it with driving home two big points, which I've found amazingly useful. Like most business books, it's got a lot of padding. Recently I've been trying to read through the highlights reel of the best-regarded business books out there, and I intend to post occasional reviews.
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