{"id":2483,"date":"2016-01-10T12:46:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2016-01-10T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T12:50:19","slug":"work-rules-laszlo-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/work-rules-laszlo-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Work rules &#8211; Laszlo Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">My notes from the book <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1RCWc2P\">Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear<\/a>\u00a0by Laszlo Block, which I rated 5\/5 and marked as my favorite on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelfari.com\/hitman666\/lists\/Top\">my Shelfari account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Only when companies took steps to give employees more freedom did performance improved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>By offering more wages just means you get more applicants, not that you get better applicants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Most assessment happens in the first three or four minutes of an interview, with the remaining time spent confirming that bias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>I&#8217;m in great shape, I spent $500 on my gym membership this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The presence of a huge training budget is not evidence that you&#8217;re investing in your people, it&#8217;s evidence you failed to hire deride people to begin with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>To Jeff Dean NP means No Problemo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Academic performance didn&#8217;t predict job performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Don&#8217;t debate what&#8217;s the best background color for the ad \u2013 just run the experiment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If you&#8217;re achieving all your goals, you&#8217;re not setting them aggressively enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Use meetings to ask questions, rather than dictate answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Deliberate practice \u2013 intentionally repetitions of similar small desks with immediate feedback, correction and experimentation. Break things down into small digestible pieces with a clear feedback and do them again and again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It&#8217;s hard work to have be ranges were someone can make 10 times more then the other person, but it&#8217;s much harder to see your highest potential walk out of the door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I have discovered men will risk their lives or even die for ribbons. &#8211; Napoleon<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The bigger the dish, the more we eat, and the less satisfied we feel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/HitmanHR\/status\/686167992330268672<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My notes from the book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear\u00a0by Laszlo Block, which I rated 5\/5 and marked as my favorite on\u00a0my Shelfari account. Only when companies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}