Reviews for Basic Electrical Engineering and Instrumentation for Engineers

The average rating for Basic Electrical Engineering and Instrumentation for Engineers based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-18 00:00:00 Daniel Peinado The good: it's a fun tale of how Bill Walsh helped turn the San Francisco 49ers from the worst team in football into one of the NFL's greatest dynasties. The strongest parts of the book are those that feel like Walsh's memoir, where he shares gritty, down-to-earth stories of success and failure which allow you to extract lessons for yourself. The bad: the story is awkwardly twisted into a "business book" format, which just doesn't work. The weakest parts of the book are when it relies heavily on managerial-speak, full of dry "top 10" lists, empty platitudes, and "try it in your office" style advice. These parts of the book feel like they were tacked on as an afterthought to broaden the market for the book, and it just doesn't work. In part, that's because the writing in the "business parts" is poor, and does not convey the message nearly as well or as memorably as Walsh's storytelling. In part, that's because much of what worked for Walsh and the 49ers simply does not apply to other types of businesses. The fact is that most of us are NOT dealing with the world's top athletes, or the demands of physical performance, or the kind of command structure you see in sports franchises. Despite that, there are a few gems in here: * The key to winning is not to focus on winning, but to focus on getting better. You can't completely control the outcome of a game, but you can control the effort you put into your training, and if you relentlessly focus on improving, you increase your chances of success. Focus on continuously bettering yourself, and the score will take care of itself. * It's best to keep your competitors faceless and nameless. That way, you won't be distracted or intimated or focused on them at all and can instead focus on yourself and what you can do to get better. * Create a standard of performance—an extremely high standard of performance—that applies to every detail of your work and spend every day trying to move a little closer to that standard. Great results come from small improvements made on a regular basis over a long period of time. * Copious planning, playbooks, and preparation are essential for success. As an introvert, I find planning to be essential in all aspects of life: I simply need to give my mind time to get used to things and then I can perform well. It turns out this same trait is essential in football and many other aspects of life. No one performs as well under extreme stress, so being able to prepare in a pressure-free environment beforehand, and having your plan of attack ready to go before the stress kicks in, is essential, both in football, and in many other aspects of life. * Inspirational speeches are rarely useful. Most of them don't have much of an impact, and even if they do, the impact doesn't last long. Real motivation must come from within. It comes from the inner voice: the voice that each person hears inside their head every day, all day, that produces the long-lasting motivation you need to accomplish great things. Great leaders don't motivate through fancy speeches; they motivate by helping people build and grow that inner voice. * The ending of the book, and the ending of Walsh's career, is tragic. Many of us work hard, assuming that when we achieve success, life will be easy and worry free. But Walsh's career, which was one of the most successful in NFL history, shows that success alone is not enough. Despite his incredible accomplishments—or perhaps because of them—Walsh found himself under extreme stress to always succeed, and eventually, this relentless pressure broke him down. The book preaches over and over again that you should focus on improvement rather than success, and that you should tie your identity to how you went about getting results rather than the results themselves, but it's clear that Walsh wasn't able to do this himself, and it cost him dearly. It's a sad and powerful lesson. As always, I saves some of my favorite quotes: "The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners." "Sometimes you snarl; sometimes you bite; sometimes you smile and give thumbs-up. There’s a little bit of the actor in all good leaders." "When the audience is bored, it's not their fault." "Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize."

Review # 2 was written on 2016-08-08 00:00:00 Yana Makarova I really enjoyed this book. It was a slower read, but very informative and helped me think about another aspect of leadership, teaching. I don't follow football, so I didn't know anything about Bill Walsh before I read this book. I picked it up because I read an article on the Harvard Business Review blog talking about his leadership style and it mentioned this book. I wanted to get a "non-corporate" perspective on leadership and coaching. There were a couple things that really stood out to me in the book. - A big part of leadership is teaching. He spent a huge a amount of time teaching everyone what he wanted done. I think (and he admits at the end of the book) that he didn't delegate enough. However, he reinforced for me that a good leader is always teaching. - His level of concern for the details was tremendous. He talks about paying close attention to the right details (and not the wrong ones). This is something that also seemed true to me from the Alan Mullay book (American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company) and the David Marquette book(Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders). All three of them dove very deep into the details as part of the turn around effort.