Book Notes: 'The Effective Engineer' by Edmond Lau
The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau is a book about how to be more effective within your organization. Note that there is a difference between “effective” and “efficient”. Maximizing “effectiveness” requires you to make sure that you’re working on high leverage activities. It doesn’t matter how efficient you are at completing tasks if the tasks don’t product business value. I thought the book was good, and there wasn’t really anything that I took issue with....