Retaining Your Best People: Harvard Business School Press

Retaining Your Best People: Harvard Business School Press


This is the best investment of 2 hours on people management reading I’ve ever experienced.

Most people management books are motivational writing. These provide a general philosophical goal (e.g. be good to your employees) and then describe how wonderful the results are. These books don’t really tell the tactical challenges involved; and these motivational books are partial, in that their partial view is claimed to be a whole fix-all.

Other people-management books I’ve read are usually dry textbooks—I’ve never read through these, as I keep falling asleep.

This book though is fast-reading and provides numerous practical tips. I’ve always thought Harvard Business Review provided excellent reading, and this fast-reading book is so far superior to the other (limited) management books I've read that I regard it in a class by itself.

Your Credit Score by Liz Pulliam Weston

This is an excellent overview, as it describes legitimate guess-estimate information about how to improve one’s credit score. Very well, clearly written.

I feel though that the author should have provided more interviews with FICO score designers, insurance underwriters, creditors, collections agencies, lawyers, and more of those on the creditor and ratings side. It is these people who really know how to affect the credit score and reduce payments. How, for example, do some debtors get away and some don’t. The author gives a “by-the-book” answer, and actuality is done by those involved; and the author did not interview those on the credit side. Thus, this book lacks real insiders’ techniques. This is not an insightful and easily-out-dated book, but I give it a 5 star for its ease of reading. Needs interviews and current website information.