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title = "The 7 Secrets of Exceptional Leadership - Brian Tracy"
date = 2020-05-24
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18523862-the-7-secrets-of-exceptional-leadership):
In The Seven Secrets of Exceptional Leadership Brian describes the most
important leadership qualities practiced by top leaders worldwide. By
committing yourself to these seven "secrets" of exceptional leadership, you
can achieve all your goals as a leader in every area of your life.
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Ok, I have to say that this book rubbed me in all the wrong ways.
First, more pictures than content. I mean, if I want to have a book about
boats, I'd get a book about boats, not about leadership.
Second, the rules are somewhat weird. "A leader must know themselves" I can
get behind, specially because one would have to know their own weaknesses to
lead people. "Know what they want"... why? A leader may lead people to make
things they (leader) don't even fully agree, but know it must be done. Just
knowing what you want (even couple with the other points) doesn't make you a
leader -- heck, it doesn't even _fit_ the description of a leader.
This was a book that I picked up and dropped next day 'cause fuck confusing
"being a boss" with "being a leader" -- and those two are completelly
different aspects.

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title = "In Fury Born - David Weber"
date = 2020-06-20
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130528.In_Fury_Born):
Imperial Intelligence couldn't find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn't catch
them, and local defenses couldn't stop them. It seemed the planet-wrecking
pirates were invincible. But they made a big mistake when they raided
ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries' quiet home work, tortured and murdered her
family, and then left her for dead. Alicia decided to turn "pirate" herself,
and stole a cutting-edge AI ship from the Empire to start her vendetta. Her
fellow veterans think she's gone crazy, the Imperial Fleet has shoot-on-sight
orders. And of course the pirates want her dead, too. But Alicia DeVries has
two allies nobody knows about, allies as implacable as she is: a self-aware
computer, and a creature from the mists of Old Earth's most ancient legends.
And this trio of furies won't rest until vengeance is served.
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- (--) The beginning of the book puts a lot of backstory, all in the wrong
places: You're in the middle of a conversation, the conversation stops, a
lot of stuff is thrown at your face and... the conversation just
continues. Where did you stop? What where they were discussing?
- (--) In between backstories, there is a bunch of characters. Characters and
more characters are thrown in the story, perform something small,
disappear for a while, and suddenly appear again and who the heck was
that? Did they mentioned them before? Worse, some names are so close you
don't even know if it is a new character or an old one.
- (-) The first battles are too long and provide nothing about the future.
- (--) I don't have a problem with mixing scifi with fantasy,
but you have to build an universe for that (sad to say, but something akin
to "[Bright](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5519340/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)"), but
when you suddenly add a Greek spirit... everything seems to fall apart.
- (+) Some points are really well constructed. For example, there is a
discussion between three characters and you don't need descriptions to
know who's talking; their tone and words make things clear.
- (=) The pacing only gets convincing the end, when everything is done.
Honestly, it could be a good story, if the spirit was removed, the backstories
cleaned out, some stuff that doesn't affect anything in the long run (pointing
that they happened, with short summary would suffice) and make it shorter
would be a real improvement.
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