For some reason, “Leading through Disruption: A Changemaker’s Guide to Twenty-First Century Leadership” reminds me of “No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends”. “No Ordinary Disruption” is the hard-nosed business version of “The Big Pivot” and “Drawdown”. The rallying cry to examine your business model in a world where all the …
A while ago, I read “Observer: A novel” by Robert Lanza, a book about quantum foam, infinite universes, consciousness and observer effects. Your mind as a quantum machine. Blew my mind. So I decided to pick up another book by Lanza, “The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality”. We create the universe Life is …
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Strategy and chess. Business, like chess, is a game of thinking several moves ahead. Patrick Bet-David, the author of “Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy”, thinks that five moves are the sweet spot of thoughtful strategy and swift action. Five moves are enough to ensure you anticipate future outcomes and see …
One of my clients is AgilePoint. A codeless adaptive automation platform. They solve digital transformation problems for large enterprises with a particular focus on reducing complexity, removing technical debt (a software chokepoint) and making the operating system dynamic and adaptable, which means you only have to do it once. AgilePoint will grow with you. It …
“Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building” came highly recommended, and rightly so. The author, Claire Hughes Johnson, worked for Google as a VP and was the COO of Stripe. The book is a perfect playbook, using the tools that Stripe uses. For that reason alone, it is worthwhile. Tools, templates and lessons. Nuggets …
A very comprehensive management tactics playbook (combined with some other books) Read More »
When we work with start-ups and SMEs, we always ask the exit questions. Have you planned one? Should you? When? Whom? Etc. That is why I picked up “Exit Path: How to Win the Start-up End Game”. A business plan without an exit strategy is only half complete as it leaves unanswered many important strategic …
Richard Rumelt is the author of “Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters“. An excellent book about strategy. Hence picking up “The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists”. Focussing on the crux, understanding what is truly important and which is secondary. It is about judging the difficulties of dealing with these issues and the …
I bought this book based on the first word. “TomorrowMind: Thrive at Work with Resilience, Creativity and Connection, Now and in an Uncertain Future”. A tomorrow mind? Our minds are not fit for purpose The book starts by explaining that our mind, which evolved over millions of years, is not suitable for the world we …
I have always been fascinated by the supernormal, the paranormal, Eastern philosophy, the metaphysical, the occult, the esoteric and the deeper hidden reality beyond the mundane world. The Lindy effect The more you read about it, the more you understand that the current hard science simply does not have all the answers. Or even worse, …
I am a huge fan of Bill Bryson. I just finished reading “The Body: A Guide for Occupants”. The book illustrates how miraculous, wondrous, special and mysterious our bodies are. We are not cheap. The full cost of building a new human being, using the obliging Benedict Cumberbatch as a template, would be £96,546.79. Where …