BATB score: 10/10 💚🤑💚 Legendary old school classics on how to escape the middle class paycheck-pay-bills Rat Race 🐭 via making money work for you. Never gets old. Best for: anyone who has been caught saying “I am waiting for my next promotion or year-end bonus” or anyone living on paychecks, you are working hard yes? but are you working smart? Best as: here’s the plan. paycheck to savings to assets (stocks, bonds, real estate) to passive income (interests, dividends, rent

BATB score 10/10 🙋‍♀️🤱👭 Embracing women sacrifices in the most engaging and relatable way 💯 Best to: a very easy and enjoyable read about the life of Mrs. Kim Jiyoung in different life roles amidst a patriarchal society: a daughter vs a son, a school girl vs a school boy, a woman vs a man in the workforce, a mother vs a father expectations 💢 Best for: every Asian person can relate to this book, brings back childhood memories of favouritism to the sons, the hired/promoted

BATB score: 10/10! ⭐️🌟⭐️ Amazing. Bravo. Worth every chapter. Clear actionable. Reflective. Concise. #MarshallGoldsmith you genius! Best as: a wake-up call for all senior managers and/or C-level-to-be that “It’s not about you. It’s about what other people think of you” - you are now a public figure and showing such self-improvement desires is positively accepted Best for: 'bad boss attitude' may have gotten you here; but 'good boss leadership' will get you there Best as: dar

BATB score: 10/10 👏 Investment book for dummies 💯 legit! Best to: know there are just 5 basic principles that differentiates the real investors from the novice speculators 1. Do your homework. Bookmark this website www. sec.gov and check out the public 'DEF 14A' to analyse management competencies and compensation schemes and '10-K' annual reports for ROA(sset), ROE(quity), cash flow, and debt. 2. Find economic moats Basically, competitive advantages that is lucrative and ul

BATB score: 10/10 👏⭐️🔥 Bravo! Restoring trust and compassion amongst humankind - believe me, we all are nice in nature. Best to: nerdy but beautifully written with anecdotes from all the legends "The Tipping Point" Malcolm Gladwell, "The Prince" Niccolò Machiavelli, "Drive" Daniel H. Pink, "Mindset" Carol Dweck, "Factfulness" Hans Rosling, and so much more. Best for: all humans who may have lost faith in this world; this book allows you to believe again that we're not mons

BATB score: 10/10 🤍 for heaven and everyone up there Best to: beautifully written, very easy to grasp on the concepts of death, love, life, sacrifices, memories, and meaning Best for: maybe the best self-help book out there! powerfully narrated via a short novel; more moving than any 1-2-3 step self-growth book Now, I am reminiscing about all the faces and friendships; and now this extrovert-turned-introvert me who is living in midlife solitude just want to cry an ugly cry B

BATB score: 10/10 💯 I've always been a big fan of Netflix culture since reading "Powerful" by Patty Mccord 2018 - absolutely dream company 💋 Best to: Netflix culture is very real - team not family, pay top of the market, 360 radical candor, 100% organizational transparency, 100% autonomy no rules rules! Best for: job opening? I would like to work at Netflix please. I believe I would be a great contributor! I will not cry I promise. Blah, who am I kidding... applied and reje

BATB score: 10/10 🍗🥙🍟🍕 Wow. Just wow. Recommended by current CMO of Tinder aka ex-CMO of Pizza Hut. Written by best friends ex-CEO of Taco Bell and ex-CMO of KFC. A Yum! Brand family affair 💯. Best to: R(elevance), E(ase), and D(istinctiveness) is the main component of any brand marketing; maybe we are trying so hard to add value that we dissected a fundamental young marketing lad into fancy dancy frankenstein fad Best for: any aspiring, amateur, or professional brand ma

BATB score: 10/10 💕 Dan Ariely fan girl 🙋‍♀️ right here! Best to: a comical illustration of behavioural economics and human intrinsic and extrinsic psychology - highlighting Dan Ariely's greatest experimentations in a cartoon comic strip (it does not get any better than this!) Best for: a lot of Dan Ariely's old, known social experimentations and stated conclusions on market norms vs social norms; but still very happy to re-read about them with love Best as: money (market n

BATB score: 10/10 ⌚️⏰⏳ Beautiful, touching, and inspirational classic from Mitch Albom 💕 easily read and teary in one sitting 😭 Best to: finish the book - at the end, it's worth it; also, ask oneself, with all the minutes passing are we really living? Best for: all of us - to give Mitch Albom a chance; all of us who are pressed with time but yet wondered where all the time has passed Best as: why are we so obsessed with time? the counting of, the lacking of, the speed/quali

BATB score: 10/10 🤍 This book is a series of interviews about life and death from a dying soul's perspective - “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Best to: a slap in the face to all of us who traded dreams for a bigger paycheck #idiot likeas we have years to spare Best for: all of us questioning, finding, and believing in the meaning of life Best as: "the most important thing in life is to learn how to give our love and to let it come in" Random thought: damn

BATB score: 10/10 💋⭐️💃 A stunning novel by Frances Cha on modern day Korea - the idealistic desire for plastic beauty, the strides and sacrifices women has to endure, and the definition of love and affairs. Best to: an accurate reflection of modern day societal expectations for a woman - find a rich husband, make money, manage high social circles, save up for aesthetic plastic surgery, deal with in-laws, make a son, and calibrate about maternity leave and career consequence

BATB score: 10/10 🐭🤍👨‍🍳 Daniel Keyes' masterpiece written in 1959, read in 2021 by BATB (+62 years later). Lovable character, engaging journey for self-enlightenment and concluding that IQ quotient is a mere measurement of unnecessary things. Best to: a true timeless classic from a pure talented author - how could you compose something that is still 100% relatable to the general public +62 years later? #dayum Best for: you better read this if you haven't #FOMO ; for anyon

BATB score: 10/10 🌟 Life-changing book for all people managers. Are you a genius or are you a genius maker? Best to: concise, tangible, practical 💯 how the best leaders make everyone smarter; two types of managers out there: diminishers and multipliers; multipliers get 2X from their team and builds a legacy as a genius maker Best for: should be a required read for all people managers; raise your hands if you have asked for more headcount yet your team is working hard but no

BATB score: 10/10 🤍 relatable in every way; thank you #MattHaig for writing this book to shed light on depression as an illness and as common brain mishap Best to: beautifully personal and eloquently elaborative of someone going through depression, comprising of inner demons and anxiety that makes living difficult Best for: everyone should read this regardless of whether you are a sufferer, a survivor of, or merely a fellow friend of anyone going through depression #BeAnAlly

BATB score: 10/10 💯🥺👏 my heart hurts. a sad, emotional, and heartfelt memoir for Chika - a bubbly 7-year-old battling brain tumour DIPG, the hopeful journeys of legal guardians, and the feelings left behind. Best to: Mitch Albom is an amazing author in conveying emotions and affections in very simple writing; easily digestible by readers and, for sure, strike a chord in readers' hearts 💯💞 Best for: if you are going to read only one book this year, read this book. If you

BATB score: 10/10 🖤 nobody writes about our inevitable mortality like Dr. Atul Gawande #bravo 👏 Best to: our impulse is to fight death - chemo, surgery, sutures, bring it; there is always something more that the doctors can do. but the fact that we are trying so hard to fix things may be shortening or worsening the time we hardly have left. so is it quantity or quality? Best for: all of us. eye-opening; ask your loved ones today "if time becomes short, what is most importan

BATB score: 10/10 🤩❤️🔥 Mitch Albom is a hands-down brilliant author #hallelujah Best to: writings from the heart that touches souls; a very simple storyline yet makes you think about heaven, hope, and love; a feel good book that makes you believe in the beauty of life again Best for: do read Mitch Albom - for people trying to develop a productive reading habit, you can read this book in one sitting Best as: a lot of quotable snippets Best quotes: “There are two stories for

BATB score: 10/10 💙 This book changed my life the first time I read it in 2018. Re-reading this book today in 2021, now that I am two step higher on the corporate ladder, the lessons are even more legit and critical. Best to: an appropriate slap-in-the-face. Stop thinking that the world is just, that your talents and contributions would be recognized and a promotion is due, that you don't have to play office politics to be noticed, that you will not corrupt your way up, that

BATB score: 10/10 🐲 Best to: 💯 well-written; a harmonious composition of storytelling from global leaders and Reid Hoffman’s analysis and key takeaways Best for: legit 💚 lucky dragon 🐉 book for entrepreneurs, business leaders, and social enterprise c-suites Best as: strongly recommend; Reid Hoffman’s 2021 comeback; charismatic leaders to take a selfie with this book Best quotes: “it’s easy to kill a product that’s failing; it’s harder and more strategic to kill one that l