BATB score: 8.8/10 🙏 Salute to all the field studies, data-driven research, and real-life experiments that must have taken 5+ years to conclude into this thick insightful research book! Best to: know that it's a research study on why the poor remains poor from one test hypothesis to another and another across developing countries via numerous rural schemes 👏 #nerdalert Best for: capital shifters composing societal schemes to comprehend the roles of the three Is' - ignorance

BATB score: 8.5/10 🙏💫 Legit rationale analysis on why things become a fad, a trend, or a flop. #surfskate #IGReels #bananabread The success of a social epidemic is dependent on three types of people: the connectors (people who know a lot of other people), the mavens (people who can't shut up and wants to share all new known facts), and the salesmen (charismatic KOLs) Best to: know that the above is basically the summary of the book; yet, 💯 legit Best for: Malcolm Gladwell'

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: 6/10 for the darling graphics 🍭 Proof that investing in an MBA to learn the principles is over-rated. Investing in an MBA to find a wife/husband is more acceptable. #valueformoney Best as: it feels like talking to a consultant. You got all the frameworks and the paper concepts down, you look smart, sharp and credible; but we all know that you are full of air #shallow #airhead Best for: go get an MBA when you are single and make sure that you get that certificate

BATB score: 5.10/10 💢 5 for the 5 highlighted historical leaders and 0.10 for the 10 years Nancy Koehn took to write this book. *Spoiler Alert* It's a history book. Best to: know that it is actually 5 individual books within this one book. It's a history book written by a historian inclusive of all the details from birth to death of the subject's account trying to bundle leadership concepts wherever possible. Best for: the book was written in 2017; do we really have to refer

BATB score: 6.7/10 okay but not wow. tip of the iceberg inspiration. one-liner instagram captions. an easy-read of 30 interview transcripts from David Rubenstein lifetime interview records with big name leaders - CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers Best as: key to be exceptional leaders: luck, desire to succeed, pursuit of something new and unique, hard work / long hours, focus, failure, persistence, persuasiveness, humble demeanour, credit-sharing, ability to keep learning, in

BATB score: 3/10 🤦‍♀️ the book lives in 2006 (as per its published year) - blaming and slapping myself for picking such a book Best for: exceptionally wordy superficially covering heavy topics like price discrimination, taxation on the marginal, globalization, global warming, and China's strides Best to: skip this book. Tim Harford's way of writing sounds like that uncle (we all have) that obviously is trying to make a very educated point but ends up making numerous unrelate

BATB score: 7/10 💸 Reader discretion is advised: heavy. very heavy book dated back to the 1970s stock market. not for the light-hearted amateur readers. However, reader may survive this book by reading only the chapter commentary by Jason Zweig as he speaks human while Benjamin Graham speaks alien investor dashboard. Best as: a book that inspired Warren Buffett to build his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. empire and be the world's top 10 richest man #dayum having this book in my pos

BATB score: 7/10 from 🐰 to 🐲 Best to: know that 90% of advertising doesn't work; advertising is not all that powerful to make behavioural changes, incremental sales, or a shift in societal norm #blahblah. To quote the book, all that advertising does is to "give client an edge over their competitor" ; that's all. Best for: communications major students / graduates who are off doing a variety of jobs for a pay check - hello! me included 🙋‍♀️ (who said we're in this advertisi

BATB score: 5/10 💔 this book could have been an email Best to: everything there is to this book is in its table of contents - reading into each chapters does not really make any difference or add any further value Best for: just read the table of contents of all the seven CEO test questions - doing so would suffice Best as: the book cover was definitely clickbait

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: 3.5/10 🥵 *Reader Discretion Advised* a thick ass excruciatingly detailed, boring and complex explanation of pre-Immelt, Immelt's 16 years as CEO of General Electrics, and post-Immelt - and every single damn thing that happened in between #painful #JeffImmelt I gave up at page 80/312. Best to: this book reminds you of the agony and discomfort of going MBA case discussions - so what has the CEO done wrong that led to the fall of General Electrics throughout his 16

BATB score: 8/10 💦 This book should be a required reading for Political Science students. Introductory book to government, legislation, capitalism, taxation, social security, employment, education, etc; about their flaws today and how to fix them. Best to: know that the book is filled with USA-centric governance and deficiency, however, the analysis, principles, and key next steps are globally applicable Best for: hard-working middle class citizens paying high bracket taxati

BATB score: 7/10 🤯🌎🥶 Introduction to Climate Change for Dummies by the one and only billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates (gates, gates gates) 📣 Best to: remember only two numbers: 51 billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere every years aka where we are today; and ZERO greenhouse gases emission is what we need to aim for to survive Best for: you know how Bill Gates predicted an epidemic virus that will kill millions in his 20

BATB score: 6.6/10 🗂📑📒 Literally a collection of Jeff Bezos's annual shareholder letters, speeches, interviews, and memos. Snippets from everywhere bound together in a zip file book format. Best to: some credit for being able to look through Jeff Bezos's evolution of annual shareholder letters; love love love how he always end with 'I am super lucky/proud/thankful/joyous to be part of the Amazon team. It's still Day 1" since 1997. Best for: linguist and leaders speaking on

BATB score: 7/10 🌟 Random Fact: Thailand's ex-prime minister Yingluck S. recommended this book on her personal FB; I believe once you were ousted out you do have a lot of time to catch up on reading la la la. Best to: started poorly basic but ended quite conclusive - everything you need to know about the fifth paradigm marketing; book content structured like a typical university course book - defining terms and briefly explaining the gist of such subject term before moving o

BATB score: 7/10 ⚡️ Did I do my best to be happy? Did I do my best to find meaning? A book about owning your life as a protagonist for being a better version of yourself everyday. Best to: read Marshall Goldsmith's "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" 🌟 first and foremost; then if you are still keen, have a take on this book Best for: guilt-ridden victim of "satisficing" - our tendency to commodify everyday choices because chasing that last bit of improvement is not worth

BATB score: 5/10 🏄‍♀️🌏 too detailed and written in textbook style an autobiography on who is Yvon Chouinard, the origins of Patagonia Inc, and the philosophy behind the business environmental morales and day-to-day enjoyable and sustainable operations Best to: true passion driven business 💯 started with the love for the outdoors; translates into business values 'let my people go surfing' flextime policy, donating 10% of profit to non-profit environmental groups, and creati

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