<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Books on Andreas' Blog</title><link>https://blog.anoff.io/tags/books/</link><description>Recent content in Books on Andreas' Blog</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.anoff.io/tags/books/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>What I learned about Management and Recruiting</title><link>https://blog.anoff.io/2019-01-31-book-google-schmidt/</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.anoff.io/2019-01-31-book-google-schmidt/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As [promised]({{ site.baseurl }}/2019-01-15-book-2018-in-books) my book series will start with two books out of the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Apple,_Amazon,_Netflix_and_Google"&gt;FAANG&lt;/a&gt; league. The book &lt;em&gt;How Google works&lt;/em&gt; covers many aspects of the companies culture. The book has lots of management insights that - at the time of reading - were of little interest to me. Therefore I want to briefly highlight a few points about &lt;a href="#innovation"&gt;innovation&lt;/a&gt; that I find fascinating and then move to the human factors like &lt;a href="#recruiting"&gt;recruiting&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="#competence-management"&gt;competence management&lt;/a&gt; that are also covered extensively in the book.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>My year 2018 in books</title><link>https://blog.anoff.io/2019-01-15-book-2018-in-books/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.anoff.io/2019-01-15-book-2018-in-books/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;For the last ~15 months I spent a lot of wasted time (commuting to work, waiting at the doctors, sitting on planes) with audio books. I have never been a big reader and the entry barrier to start listening to a book instead of music is a lot lower than packing books, reading instead of listening etc. That&amp;rsquo;s why I became a really big fan of listening to various audiobooks.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>