Historical errata for Behind Closed Doors

“These are some examples of ‘broad enough’ goals are” — spurious “are”

“write the number of people…” The “w” should be capitalized.

Some questions are can be open to misinterpretation:

The inside cover has me listed as from Washington, D.C. — it should be “Hampton, VA”. — Bil Kleb

In the third paragraph, the sentence, “Ginger, you’re going develop …”. Missing word “to” between “going” and “develop”.

In the third bullet point under “Now Try This”, the sixth sentence is worded strangely. You have ,“Eat lunch with in the lunchroom.”. Either remove the word “with” or add something like “Eat lunch with your people, in the lunchroom.”

In the third paragraph, first sentence, you have, “… move to an technical contributor …”. The word “an” should be “a”.

“They may fear that they’ll have to give up work that’s valuable to them but not the organization. (You will.)” The “You will” doesn’t make sense - I suspect that the previous sentence originally read something like “They may fear that you will make them give up work…”

In the third paragraph of text (in Sam’s thoughts), “Sound like Jason might have used the wrong approach” should be “Sounds like…”.

In bibliography item 4, “Unreported and Upaid Overtime…” should be “Unreported and Unpaid Overtime…”.

In the paragraph “Ask for a progress check”, the sentence “Can we concentrate on prioritize the remaining items…” probably needs to read “Can we concentrate on prioritizing….”.

In the bullet point for “Don’t label the person”, there is a spurious comma in the sentence “I noticed the last set of release notes, contained…”.

At the beginning of the third paragraph, “The Role in the figure…” should be “The Roles in the figure…”.

In Multitasking: Wasting Mental Cycles

time to re-create a train of “though” should be “thought”

“you’ve done at set clear expectations” -> “… at setting …”.

“set reasonable interim…” -> “setting reasonable …”

“communicated your satisfaction” -> “communicating …”

“For each feature and current high-priority fixes” would be better if the two things were consistent. “For each feature and current high-priority fix” or “For all of the features and current high-priority fixes”.

“whether you agree, …” -> “whether you agree or not, …”

“When you assist someone to reach their career goals” -> “When you assist someone in reaching their career goals” or “When you help someone to reach their career goals”

‘Now Try This’ section, bullet 1:
“See whether you can you detect…”

The word ‘you’ is in there twice.

‘Capture key information’ section, line 6:

“But we’ve seen too many meetings were each person diligently…”
‘were’ should be ‘where’

Last para, Current sentence: “It would be great to learn this informations on your first day”…
“information” should be singular.

“Manager” is misspelled “manger”

In the PDF copy of the book, there are many bibliography references such as [37], [12], etc.
These references are not embedded as hyperlinks so it is difficult to relate them to the bibliography since the entries in the bibliography are not numbered. The bibliography should be numbered or the references should be hyperlinked.
In the mobi version, this is not a problem because the references are included as hyperlinks.

The bibliography links throughout the epub link to blank entries.

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