[SystemSafety] C for OSs

[Les Chambers]

Hi Martyn
Your theme is brilliantly covered in the book: Mindset by Dr Carol S. Dweck. I came across it while reading some background on Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella. He was the electrical engineer who made a 20,000,000,000 dollar business out of cloud services for Microsoft. It sounds like he sleeps with this book under his pillow. 

Mindset is about instilling the concept of the 'growth mindset' in yourself and others. Whereas some of us leave university believing we are fully formed human beings, the more successful graduates understand that we never stop learning and pursue it aggressively. I particularly liked the section on coaching where Dweck points out that it's not enough to set high standards, you have to show people a path from when they are to where you want them to be and to be generous with your time as opposed to screaming that they just need to read more books.

Les

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From: systemsafety [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of Martyn Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 7:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [SystemSafety] C for OSs

On 16/09/2019 21:47, Olwen Morgan wrote:

> (In my busier years, it was nothing for my annual personal expenditure 
> on professional books to exceed £1000. It's a lot cheaper than going 
> on courses.)

Many years ago when I was running Praxis, I encouraged managers to use their training budgets to buy technical books for their staff on request, for exactly the reasons that Olwen gives. It mystifies me why so few other companies appear to see the sense in this.

It also reduced the rate of disappearance of books from the Praxis library.

Martyn