Notes on an Execution

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Finally, we meet Hazel, the less beautiful, less intelligent half of a pair of twins who is always second fiddle to her sister, Jenny. But when Jenny brings home a handsome, quiet boy from college, Hazel starts to sense that she has finally won the silent competition between them, even though she cannot explain how. Jenny tells her sister in a hushed whisper that her boyfriend, Ansel, cannot feel, but whatever he has for her --- if it cannot be called love --- is powerful, all-consuming and possessive. Like Saffron, Hazel senses that something is off about Ansel, which he tries desperately to bury under his philosophical musings about good and evil and his magnetic charm. That’s the benefit of scoring your staffers’ progress on the WIG. The scoreboard should be clear and include all important information: lead and lag measures, and comparisons between where the team is, and where they should be. It should be managed by the employees, as this increases sense of control and thus motivation. The board should be laid out in a way that requires a microsecond of attention to identify who is winning and losing. Creating a culture of accountability is the fourth discipline, and what ultimately determines execution. Here, you must set the example. Once the weekly meetings are decided, you must attend without fail. Showing your commitment increases their commitment. Initiate the meeting by giving detail of whether you have met your commitments. This then provides them with confidence to do the same. Another vital point: congratulate the successes. It will provide them with a sense of pride, and increases that winning feeling. The genre is an uncustomary combo of literary fiction and crime thriller. The plot takes the best features of these genres and assimilates them into a compelling experience. The writing is astounding, making its mark without going over the top. We know that budgeting + not overspending = saving. But, how do we put this knowledge into action? By following lead measures, you witness how your current actions influence your goal, encouraging you to follow your plans. Takeaway #4. Keep Score Along The Way

Focus on Execution: The book emphasizes that execution is the key to success, and it encourages leaders to create a culture where execution is the highest priority. would time not have been better spent focusing nearly the ENTIRE book on these women and how they are affected by this dude's actions. i guess you could make the argument that their chapters are this. but to me they felt too focused on the man and not enough on their OWN lives.

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The book also asks us to consider themes of justice and punishment. Saffy, as a law enforcement officer, is the one who wonders that ' j ustice does not feel like compensation, it does not even feel like satisfaction. ...she pictures the needle, pressing into Ansel's arm. The blue pop of the vein, how unnecessary. How pointless. The system has failed them all.' Thank you to William Morrow for a physical ARC in exchange for an honest review. Expected Publication Date: 1/25/22. Although I differ with some blurbs I've read calling NOTES ON AN EXECUTION a thriller, I do agree that this book is excellent. And, although I think the couple lines of Danya Kukafka's antiracist comments (inserted as a character's thoughts) contained in this book are unnecessary, NOTES ON AN EXECUTION is undeniably great in its thoughtfulness. It's a five-star read. Jim Huling is the author of Choose Your Life, his book on work-life integration and success that has sold consistently since 2007. Jim has also been the 4DX Global Managing Consultant for FranklinCovey for more than 13 years where he has led the coaching of more than 70,000 leaders around the world.

Only discuss the WIGs, ignore the whirlwind. Anyone who has let the whirlwind get in the way of meeting their WIG commitments must be held accountable. Encourage them so that they know their work is appreciated, but remind them that if they do not uphold their WIG commitments, the team suffers. Allow them the opportunity to catch up. Takeaway #8. Immerse your team leaders in your WIGs At least this is the theory put forward by St. Augustine in his attempt to counter the arguments by his Gnostic opponents. For them the prevalence of evil in the world is obvious and implies that creation is simply an unfortunate mistake. For Augustine, evil was a dearth of God rather than a glut of some malign substance. For him it wasn’t problematic that God appeared to dole out remarkably little grace. The flaw in Augustine is obvious to all but medieval theologians and their liberal descendants. If evil is the absence of good, then all of creation is at least somewhat evil because it doesn’t possess the perfection of good that is God. Evil then is the baseline of existence. Ansel admits as much, quoting Sartre: “No one thing can be wholly good, can it?” Adam and Eve didn’t invent evil, it was there waiting all the time in the ground they walked on, a moral inadequacy which could never be corrected. Not only that. God in his perfection knew this to be the case, that what he had created would fail because it wasn’t him. Could such a divinity really be called ‘good’? Spellbinding and beautifully written. Danya Kukafka's Notes on an Execution is an irresistible, unbearably tense thriller, a poignant, deeply compassionate tale of resilience, and a vital intervention in the way we talk about violent crime, its endless reverberations and foremost its survivors. * Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me *A book begging to be read on the beach, with the sun warming the sand and salt in the air: pure escapism.