Content tagged with "interpersonal"
I shouldn’t have finished this. The author’s writing style bugged me. I did like how the book is organized – a chapter for each different aspect of conversation, each with a set of “Rules” – but she kills the momentum with her writing. She’ll never use a simple word where a complex one will do, and…
I heard about this book in a news article, but I don’t remember which one. The title intrigued me, because I like anything that tries to distill humanity down to patterns or rules. Then, I was in a Daunt Books in London, and I saw it at the checkout register, so picked it up. I started reading it,…
So, weird situation with this book – I don’t remember a lot about it. I had sitting on my chair table for a month or so. Turns out I read it, I just don’t remember it. So I paged through it, and I now remember why I don’t remember it – and that’s an interesting point in itself. The book is so dense,…
This is just a lovely little book. If anything, it taught me that all the little rhetorical flourishes you see in memorable writing have names. There are patterns. These things are not random. Experienced writers know what these things are, and they use them purposefully. There are lots of short…
I didn’t write a “review” of this book, but I wrote an article about it for Boing Boing: The long, slow death of our watering holes
I enjoy David Brooks. I thought The Second Mountain was amazing. This book is exactly what the title suggests: how do you really understand someone? Not just pay lip service to them, but how do you really get at the deeper layers of someone. The book is a good mix of theory and practice. Brooks goes…
This title of this book should have made the narrow focus a bit more clear – this is not a book about general employee collaboration, but it’s rather specifically about professional services firms. This is about getting lawyers and accountants and consultants to play nice with each other. Some good…
Astonishingly good book with a title that doesn’t do it justice. This is one of the most profound books I’ve read on human communication and self-perception. I will re-read this again, likely multiple times.
