Beyond Code

Beyond Code
Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps!

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Overview of “Beyond Code”

“Read it as if your life depends on it. It does!” – Tom Peters

Knowledge workers across the world are facing the risk of commoditization. Being an expert in one or more “hot” skills of today won’t provide a sustainable competitive advantage for any technology professional. The only way out is to do something “beyond code” so that they can stand out from the crowd. The question is what could someone do differently. The book provides an approach to solve this problem.

Knowledge workers can supercharge their careers by winning the Inner Game and the Outer Game.

Inner Game is a mind-game. A person can play this game alone. Following are few of the practices to win the Inner Game

Learn: Life is a series of projects and you are constantly working on delivering those project and learning the skills required to deliver those projects. While struggling to balance delivery and preparation for delivery, one must not forget learning long-term skills such as developing lasting relationships, being congruent, keeping a score card, learning to adapt etc.

Laugh: Developing the ability to laugh at oneself when things don’t go as planned.

Look: Nobody gets to the first place just by doing whatever is required of him or her. You have to look beyond what is required and walk the extra mile.

Leave a lasting impression: Think about your teachers from schools. You only remember a handful of them who made a lasting impression. Making a lasting impression is not easy and it’s not automatic. You have to work for it.

Love: There is no second-guessing here. You have to love your job or you have to find a new one.

Outer game is a contact sport. A person has to win this game with others. Following are few of the practices to win the Outer Game:

Leverage: Few people leverage all of their strengths and assets. Identify and leverage your assets to reach your goals sooner.

Likeability: Likeable people get things done easily. Being likeable is an asset but it does not happen automatically.

Listen: This is like an open secret. Everyone knows this but very few people practice it. The book provides a few tools to make it easier to listen.

Lead: Leadership is as simple as filling in the blanks. Look for gaps within your organization and take some action to fill them.

And, of course, knowledge without action is not much of help. The book has an exercise at the end of each practice to help readers take action.