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Title: The Last Battle

Author: C. S. Lewis

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 176

Rating: 2.5/5

I was expecting this book to be a lot better than it was, and that kind of sums up my whole experience of the series. Sure, there were a few highlights here and there, but there was also a lot of downtime where it felt like nothing much was really happening. I also felt as though C. S. Lewis was clunkier here than he was in his other books when it comes to communicating the message he wanted to communicate.

So all in all, it was kind of a disappointing end to the series, but I’m also not particularly surprised. It’s also not as though it was awful, it was just boring and unengaging, and by this point I’m also starting to flag and to feel my interest waning in the series. And so I guess it’s something of an anticlimactic end to The Chronicles of Narnia, but at least I finished.

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Tracy Maylett and Matthew Wride – The Employee Experience

Title: The Employee Experience

Author: Tracy Maylett and Matthew Wride

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 222

Rating: 3/5

This is another of the non-fiction books that I’ve been reading so that I can write a spark notes style summary for one of my clients. The issue here is that this is the first one that I’ve actually struggled to stretch out to fill the word count.

The reason for that is that a lot of the information here is repetitive, and I feel like there was only enough material to fill half the book. That material itself was pretty good though, even if at times it does seem a little basic. The central tenet is that if you want to thrill your customers, you must first concentrate on the employee experience and making sure that the people who work for you are happy in the jobs that they’re doing.

The main highlights for me were the idea of employee contracts, which don’t always have to be written out and signed. Verbal contracts count, and we also often arrive at assumptions that we then judge the company on. If you want to retain staff for as long as possible and to promote from within, you need to provide an employee experience to be proud of.