I read “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Lencioni. It is very readable, even entertaining… and it takes about 45 minutes to read through the “good parts”. (Like with all business books, the author knows how to use stories to spin 1-2 pages of content into a 150-page book!) Here’s my take. Absence of Trust – This stems from unwillingness to be vulnerable, not being genuinely open about their mistakes and weaknesses. Fear of…
"Book Review: "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni"Author: Aly Chiman
Aly Chiman
I read “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Lencioni. It is very readable, even entertaining… and it takes about 45 minutes to read through the “good parts”. (Like with all business books, the author knows how to use stories to spin 1-2 pages of content into a 150-page book!) Here’s my take. Absence of Trust – This stems from unwillingness to be vulnerable, not being genuinely open about their mistakes and weaknesses. Fear of…
"Book Review: “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni"
Not too long ago I was writing WCF data services using entity framework and OData (and feeling weird about how easy it was to create a REST service when your model is set). I thought I would fool around a little with the Web API pattern – which is the way Microsoft is touting serving up JSON to applications using the following pattern: I’m using the repository pattern, and following these steps: Create a…
"Wrestling around with Web API and the first stumbles with the Repository Pattern : Bootstrap Theming."I’m embarrassed to say, I hadn’t visited the AJAX control toolkit suite for a while… with the advent of MVC and the abolition of Postbacks/session state (or so I thought), I was putting all that stuff in my rear view mirror. But, suffice to say, there are still times when you’re going to be using WebForms. So, here’s some of my favorite controls from this suite – and why: Accordion – panels collapse/expand. Animation –…
"ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit"I have overstated things in saying that geologists are always the bad guys of course. I mean neither Hitler nor Stalin were geologists after all. And to be clear… what follows is tongue-in-cheek. Geologists are necessary adjuncts to successful mining engineers but sometimes they think that mining engineers are necessary adjuncts to successful geologists and that really ticks me off when it happens. I have often speculated on why geologists are always the bad guys…
"Why are Geologists Always the Bad Guys?"