A super-short book that shows you how to think better through powerful management anecdotes You'll How to delegate tasks the right wayWhy you should start with the big pictureHow to classify problemsHow to avoid common biasesWhy you should give clear directionsHow to think like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk And much more...
Here's what's covered in the with a 7-Word Life MottoAvoid Brown M&MsDelegate Like a Trauma SurgeonSolve for Climate vs. Weather ProblemsLeverage Musk's Employee Vector TheoryMake One-Way Door Decisions for Chernobyl-Type RisksUse Guide Dog Selective DisobedienceAvoid WWII Plane Survivorship BiasMotivate Using the Kissinger WayAvoid Being One of the 5 MonkeysGive Sun Tzu Type DirectionsMitigate D-Day's Cliff-Climbing ErrorUse Stories to Sell Olives Each mental model gives you a new way of thinking about how you communicate, manage, and lead.
Unlike specific management techniques or tactics, those models can be mixed and matched.
You can use all of them. Or none of them. Or you can take one and modify it to your liking.
Think of those models as heuristics instead of rules of law.Would you like to learn more? Purchase "Mental Models for Effective Managers" now to get started.
A very short book (can be read over a lunch break) with some nuggets of wisdom. Others are a bit too obvious and very basically explained. Still, fun to read and take a few notes to use in your day-to-day as a leader.