But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
#HoskWisdom
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- The pressure to make things complex will be great but you must keep it as simple as possible #HoskWisdom
- Don’t waste words, make every one count #HoskWisdom
- If you can deliver the same message with fewer words then do so #HoskWisdom
- if you tried your hardest you have nothing to regret #HoskWisdom
- Constantly talking about doing something is a barrier to doing something #HoskWisdom
- Speak less, listen more and think often #HoskWisdom
- If something has no value, stop measuring it #HoskWisdom
- Contributing to a successful team is better than achieving personal goals #HoskWisdom
- People admire Dad dancing because it is a state of mind only achieved by those who are not constrained by popular opinion #HoskWisdom
- Leaders don’t try to win the race they try to get everyone to finish #HoskWisdom
- Don’t over think and under act #HoskWisdom
- Thinking should not stop action #HoskWisdom
- Respect silence, its thinking time #HoskWisdom
- Don’t waste your energy fighting the inevitable, instead choose to be prepared #HoskWisdom
- Bosses should tell employees where they can do better but most don’t #HoskWisdom
- I like to start the day with a steaming hot cup of Microsoft Dynamics 365 #HoskWisdom
- Win when you can, lose if you must but always enjoy it #HoskWisdom
- There are no shortcuts in delivering successful projects #HoskWisdom
- Be relentless about improving #HoskWisdom
- You won’t win if you are afraid of losing #HoskWisdom
- Rejection makes you serious about a goal or helps you decide it’s not important #HoskWisdom
- When a pupil isn’t doing well the reason is often due to bad teaching #HoskWisdom
- You cannot go back to what you were, you can only move forward to what you will be #HoskWisdom
- When conflict becomes personal, it becomes a problem #HoskWisdom
- For the people who achieve, tomorrow is too late #HoskWisdom
- If you lose because of a lack of preparation then you beat yourself #HoskWisdom
- No one will follow a leader who isn’t good at his job #HoskWisdom
- When you let sleeping dogs lie, be prepared to be woken by those dogs in the future #HoskWisdom
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The Hosk – currently reading
- The Anatomy of Peace: How to Resolve the Heart of Conflict
- Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
- The Agile Mind-Set: Making Agile Processes Work
- Calm Parents, Happy Kids: The Secrets of Stress-free Parenting
- Radical Candor: How to be a Great Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
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The Hosk – just finished reading
- Scrum Mastery: From Good To Great Servant-Leadership – 9/10 great book for scrum masters
- Winners: And How They Succeed – 8/10 enjoyed this book on leaders from different sports and life
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most 7/10 interesting read on how to handle difficult conversations
- The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software – 7/10 good advice on Agile projects
- Quiet Genius: Bob Paisley, British football’s greatest manager 8/10 – how a quiet person created an incrediable winning team for a decade
- Joe Fagan: Relunctant Champion, The Authorised Biography – 6/10
- Jurgen Klopp – 6/10
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