“Stellar: A world beyond limits and how to get there” is one of the most optimistic books I have read in years. Reminds me of “Moonshots” . Abundance thinking. And it is within our grasp. Extractive The very deepest root of our civilisation is extractive. That is what got us where we are now. If […]
If you ask me, I would recommend “Four thousand weeks“. A book about how you waste your time with time management. Was triggered again after I read “Tactical disconnect“. A book about attention management. Attention control seems to have been a theme. Also check out “Masters of uncertainty“. Full of stay-cool tools. You are the
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To stay ahead of AI, you need to develop your natural intelligence. Hence “Return to oneness”. A journey through the chakras. How to dis-identify with your old reality and old identity and connect to your essential Self. The pure essence that you are. Operating at the highest frequency possible. Making the unconscious conscious. Freedom You
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“Unbundling the Enterprise: APIs, Optionality, and the Science of Happy Accidents” reminds me of “The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win“. Both books I have a hard time understanding. But I get the principles of happy accidents, managing uncertainty and innovation. The headline Once you acknowledge that a specific
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It was the title that got me, “Tactical Disconnection: The Secret to Health, Happiness, and Productivity in an Always-on World”. A book similar to “Stolen Focus”. Curbing digital over-connectivity Technology can indeed enhance our health, happiness, and productivity—but only to a point. Beyond that, overuse leads to diminishing returns and, eventually, harm. Tactical disconnection is
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Marketing needs to recognise the tectonic shift that occurred when we became a digital species and the new risks, costs, and information flows that shift has created. Just Evil Enough “Just Evil Enough: The Subversive Marketing Handbook” is a marketing battle book. Flipping the standard marketing playbook. An extensive version of “Killing giants”: Thin
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Entrepreneurs and CEOs are the Navy SEALs of the business world. You can learn a lot from special forces (and top athletes). Discipline, leadership and dealing with uncertainty. Because uncertainty is the only certainty. SEALs are masters of uncertainty. While the SEALs’ ability to train and strategise is unparalleled, what sets them apart isn’t just
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“You can’t bore them into buying.” A quote by David Ogilvy Dull 48% of B2C advertisements were dull—consumers registered no emotional response. The marketing world is noisy, competitive, and chaotic. Dull doesn’t cut. If there’s a demonstrably better ROI for weird and wonderful marketing, why is it so rare? In a niche of sameness, audacity
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If I had read “The Innovation Edge: How Large Companies Lose It and How to Get It Back”, earlier, I would have included it in my “Building the in-company change muscle: intrapreneurship, innovation, transformation & strategy“—a book about books about innovation and transformation. The “Innovation edge” hits all the notes. The age of innovation At
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“Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software” is an indictment of large industries taking shortcuts in software. Using examples from companies such as Boeing, Microsoft, Uber, Facebook, and Enron. Making money as the main focus. At a huge cost to people. It is not a pretty picture. A book that is a