{"id":2603,"date":"2016-08-16T08:03:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T07:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/atwork\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2016-08-16T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T07:03:35","slug":"reviewing-the-weeks-blinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/atwork\/2016\/08\/reviewing-the-weeks-blinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing the week&#8217;s blinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve signed up for a new service, called <a href=\"http:\/\/blinki.st\/0ae7c5b0ff9f\">Blinkist<\/a>, a service that provides summaries of books in 15 minutes both in text and audio format. I was looking for a way to review a number of books that I&#8217;ve both read and not yet read, to either determine whether or not I should read them, or just something new to learn. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a review of some of the book summaries that I&#8217;ve been listening\/reading to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aS44BZ\">Games People Play by Eric Berne<\/a> &#8211; Humans play games all the time, acting in the role of Parent, Adult or Child depending on the &#8220;game&#8221; being played. We play games with different goals (safety, interaction, ) in mind although we cannot articulate them. Understanding the different roles people have when in a game gives insight into patterns of behaviour and this insight is useful in all relationships. We need to be particularly careful playing too many games in a personal relationship, as it is only when we stop playing games do you get to truly create deeper relationships.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aS42u1\">Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet<\/a> &#8211; A leadership tale that describes a leadership style that made one of the worst performing naval ships into one of the best. A good summary of turning a command-and-control leadership style, into a leaders building leaders style as well as other tricks to create quality control and feedback without using punishment. I&#8217;ll add this to my list of books to read further.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aS4w30\">The Coaching Habit by  Michael Bungay Stanier<\/a> &#8211; A nice summary that distinguishes between the difference of mentoring (where you are providing more advice\/answers) to coaching (where you lead through asking questions). A good summary of the benefits to this leadership skill, and some good examples of open questions to stimulate good conversations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aS52yg\">Getting There: A Book of Mentors by Gillian Zoe Segal<\/a> &#8211; With a subtitle about mentors, I thought this book would focus more on how mentors helped people succeed and instead you end up hearing the stories of some successful people. Although still inspirational, I found the summaries didn&#8217;t focus very much on the role the mentor played.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve signed up for a new service, called Blinkist, a service that provides summaries of books in 15 minutes both in text and audio format. 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