https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review+management/ Recent content in book-review+management on On My Mind... Hugo -- gohugo.io Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:00:00 -0400 https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/how-to-be-a-snow-queen/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:00:00 -0400 https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/how-to-be-a-snow-queen/ Book cover This is a children's (6 to 10 years) book about leadership, the subtitle is Leadership With Elsa.  While recapping the story of Disney's Frozen, it is a combination of pointing out leadership traits within the story, and pop-up video style call-outs to movie related facts.  Because this is an educational title riding on top of the fictional story of Frozen, it is categorized as a non-fiction book. https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/every-tool-s-a-hammer/ Wed, 31 Jul 2019 12:00:00 -0400 https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/every-tool-s-a-hammer/ Book Cover Subtitled, Life is What You Make It, this is a book about making things.  It has many, many other components though.  It is partly a memoir of the author's career.  It is partly a book about management, especially the end of Chapter 4 which covers delegation and the importance of communication.  It is also very instructional, in that it prescriptively lays out a number of best practices for making, along with illustrative stories of why these practices are so important.