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Red Taped

The holidays are upon us and we have been making ready for the long winter ahead by developing a thick layer of bearcat blubber. In the long tradition of radio shows, TV sitcoms, and podcasts, we present you with our holiday episode. In lieu of the usual end of year rankings, we are revisiting our previous “tape (like) or toss (dislike)” verdicts and attempting to provide very short summaries of each book we covered during 2018. (Yes, all 8 books, a truly massive undertaking). To wit, we are slacking off a bit but still providing some Grade A Prime aural delights.

Happy holidays and we wish you a truly “tape-able” 2019! Start 2019 legit and make the resolution to send us a book recommendation, contact information at: http://redtaped.libsyn.com/

1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Andy- Tape: “Take responsibility for everything.”

Larry- Tape: “Leadership is the careful balancing of complex and often conflicting forces but a leader’s default action should be ownership of all things under his/her purview

2. Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts

Andy- Toss: “Generic business wisdom of a famous warlord.”

Larry- Toss: “Welcome constructive conflict and use it to grow, inform decisions, and build alliances.”

3. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Andy- Tape: “Be nice to everyone, always.”

Larry- Tape: “Getting people to like you starts with understanding and using the narcissism that exists in everyone.”

4. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

Andy- Tape: “Embrace change, even when it sucks.”

Larry- Tape: “Change is inevitable, be prepared, look for it, accept it when it comes, and take appropriate and immediate action to respond.

5. Inside Bureaucracy by Anthony Downs

Andy- Toss: “Bearcats are people too—motivated by greed, pride, and envy.”

Larry- Toss: “To understand a bureaucracy you must understand the mission of the organization and the self-interested, motives of its leaders.”

6. Playing with Fire by Scott Lazenby

Andy- Tape: “Observing a bearcat in the fictionalized wild.”

Larry- Tape: “Accept that risk is an inherent part of leadership and prepare to get burned.”

7. The No-Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving one that Isn’t by Robert Sutton

Andy- Toss: “Nobody likes an asshole, so don’t be a dick.”

Larry- Taped: “Treat workplace assholes like a contagious disease and develop organizational procedures and personal behaviors that reflect this viewpoint.”

8. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves

Andy- Tape: “Don’t make quick decisions when happy or mad.”

Larry- Toss: “Recognizing, understanding, and using emotions are a measurable and improvable skillset.”

Upcoming:

1/14 Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck by

Mark Manson

1/28 I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else’s Maze by Deepak Malhotra.

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Opening Song: Auld Lang Syne by United Sates Marine Band.