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by grumpyfart 5967 days ago
I've recently read the book actually only first "20~ things" out of it and it's a pretty bad book. I stopped reading after 20.

On paper "97 things" idea seems great but in practice it's pretty much rubbish. I've read 97 things a project manager should know as well and that wasn't good either.

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Could you elaborate on why you think it's bad?
- It's writing style is bad, somehow consistently bad

- Structure is no good (I think this is expected though) but I was looking for an overall consistency like in Founders at work.

- Most of the advices written in many words but can be summed to 2 sentences. And rest of the text doesn't elaborate the reasons like they supposed to mostly they are there to fill up space.

Overall I don't have one bad thing but it's like reading a bad novel, you don't feel like that the author or the book has a soul.

Again Founders at Work is a perfect example of having multiple people to contribute but keeping the book in a good writing format.