Posted in Architecture, Communication, People, Psychology, Reading on February 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
This book review is a part of the series on architects’ soft skills.
The title of this book is self explanatory. If you work for a large organisation, you probably don’t have too much choice over who you you work with and sometimes you have to rub along with people you would rather strangle.
Brinkman and Kirschner, […]
Posted in Architecture, People, Psychology, Reading on January 18th, 2008 No Comments »
This book review is a part of the series on architects’ soft skills.
Every person thinks, motivates themselves, makes decisions and cares about different things. The premise on which Words that Change Minds is based is that the words you use reflect all these various mental characteristics and give a significant pointer to your expected behaviour. […]
Posted in Collaboration, Communication, People, Reading on January 11th, 2008 No Comments »
This book review is a part of the series on architects’ soft skills.
Most of us will probably feel credible and totally trustworthy at whatever is our specialisation. Because of that you are most likely to have some kind of intuitive understanding about what does what it takes to become trustworthy, but I bet not many […]