Who on a team can say no, and who gets access to the right conversation? Skunk Works and The Third Door place organisational autonomy beside an individual search for opportunity. My Life and Work adds an employer’s perspective on labour and pay. Read these authors’ accounts with questions about authority, dependency and working conditions, rather than as universal instructions.
Ed Catmull, writing with Amy Wallace, describes Pixar’s development and ways of managing creative work: candid reviews, unfinished versions, mistakes and the preparation of leaders. This is an insider and studio leader’s account, not an independent effectiveness study. The source is the English-language Random House ebook, 2014.
Henry Ford presents his views on production, labour, pay and business organisation. This is the industrialist’s own account and explanation, not an independent critical biography. The source is Uliana Dzhaman’s Ukrainian translation; its metadata names Nash Format as publisher, while the year of this electronic copy is unverified here.
Chris Voss, writing with Tahl Raz, presents negotiation through listening, questions, handling refusal and checking implementation. Accounts of crisis and business conversations accompany practical influence techniques, not independent validation of every psychological claim. The source is the first English-language HarperCollins / Harper Business ebook, May 2016, EPUB ISBN 9780062407818.
Ben Rich’s memoir of Lockheed aircraft projects, engineering decisions and the organisation of Skunk Works, written with Leo Janos.
Alex Banayan pursues stories of famous people’s early careers and unexpected routes to interviews. An adventure about persistence, connections and chance, rather than a tested formula for success.