{"id":804,"date":"2018-10-13T22:50:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sp2hari.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2018-10-13T23:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T23:02:37","slug":"books-to-read-q4-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/13\/books-to-read-q4-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Books to read &#8211; Q4\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the downsides of running a company is that you get caught up with so many problems to solve &#8216;at this moment,&#8217; that you miss the focus to think long term. Especially one of the things I miss the most is reading books and reflecting on the learnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is easier to take your time off to read books during &#8220;peaceful&#8221; time of a company. These are the three books I&#8217;m planning to read this quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sp2hari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/411O8D1w2UL._SX327_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-807\" width=\"204\" height=\"310\"\/><figcaption>Given that I&#8217;m a first-time founder\/manager, there is a constant learning process involved in being a better manager. I&#8217;m hoping this will help me do that.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sp2hari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/51G-XiecxvL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-806\" width=\"204\" height=\"310\"\/><figcaption>We are implementing the\u00a0OKR process in our company and have had our challenges in getting this right. I&#8217;m hoping this book will help us implement this better.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sp2hari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/51slqM2g3jL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-805\" width=\"204\" height=\"310\"\/><figcaption>This is one book I&#8217;ve already read, but deserves a re-read again. One of the hardest books to complete, since every chapter deserves a long thought session.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the downsides of running a company is that you get caught up with so many problems to solve &#8216;at this moment,&#8217; that you miss the focus to think long term. Especially one of the things I miss the most is reading books and reflecting on the learnings. It &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startuplife","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}