Don’t read Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity, unless you’ve read The Four because this is essentially The Four 2.0, with a central theme of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Big Four and businesses in general. The book is chock full of astute observations on the economy and the growing power of… Read More »
Most of the stories in Screw Business as Usual are inspiring, but some parts of the book were narrated through Branson’s rose-tinted glasses.
Scott Galloway gives a no-holds-barred lowdown on the Big Four, companies that dominate their respective industries, leading to some undesirable consequences.
A large portion of what was written (and how it was written) by Michael Gerber in The E-Myth Revisited reminded me of Robert Kiyosaki, and not in a good way. As with Kiyosaki’s fictitious “rich dad”, Gerber makes up characters in the book who lay massive compliments on his ideas. In return, he also compliments… Read More »
It took me forever to finish The 4-Hour Workweek because I can’t get over the nagging suspicion that Tim Ferriss is an overrated “lifehacks” aggregator. The author is clever to put a passage that addresses doubters at the beginning of the book. But by the end of the book, my suspicion is more or less… Read More »
Hindsight is 20/20. The problem with books of this nature is that they often appear to be cherry-picking data to fit the narrative. So, do you want the blue pill or the red pill?