BATB score: 10/10 👏👏👏 *required reading for office employees* we need to redefine our relationship with work because it is overrated and unhealthy Best for: any one who has said they are ‘passionate’ about the industry, company, or role; do know that the feeling was never mutual 💔 Best as: if only we can compete on who has better work-life balance instead of who has better work success (over what sacrifice), life would be so much more enriching and interesting BATB linger

BATB score: 8/10 👏 Best as: you don’t just get an offer to be CEO, you set “CEO” as your life’s goal and work backwards 24 years of career planning and progression to get there Best for: CEO career climbers only - “Many CEOs secretly agree that the best job in the world is actually the one right below the CEO.” Best to: a true playbook on how to get to be CEO, how to be CEO, and how to leave as CEO - lead with the question of “why?” to drive focus, and “why not?” to encourag

BATB score: 7/10 🤓 Best as: a full-blown white paper research on the differences of the different generations under the premise that “the era when you were born has a larger effect on your personality and attitudes than the family who raised you does” Best for: the nerdiest of nerd; beautiful line graphs on almost every other page; quantitative surveys and qualitative deep dives 📈 BATB lingering thought: the only down part is that it is US-based; I wonder whether the result

BATB score: 8/10 🖤 Best to: it was very close to being very good book yet the 23 concepts were just all over the place; unlike Morgan Housel’s previous BATB 10/10 “Psychology of Money” book that was just about money #duh Best as: back in 1950s, we all were poorer but happier than today and that’s because there was no wealth gap, no one is better off, nothing to envy Best for: I believe many other book review pages would give this book a 10/10 so to avoid FOMO, read it BATB l

BATB score: 5/10 💡 *reader discretion advised* not a book for the average joe; requires IVY league educational background a complete post-mortem extremely detailed report of what happened at General Electric from Jack Welch’s most successful company stardom to Jeff Immelt’s company downfall bye bye die Best as: no one really needs to know that much detailed post-mortem unless you are doing a General Electric business case review Best to: unpopular opinion, I do feel sorry fo

BATB score: 6/10 🫠 *reader discretion advised* clickbait book title 💯 Seth Godin has ADHD, this book is an ADHD book - three paragraphs, tip of the iceberg touch of a story, and then off to the next story, repeat that roughly 150 times Best as: just because you wrote a book telling numerous stories does not make you yourself a good storyteller Best to: allow me to summary the whole book, “Marketing is storytelling, make the story remarkable, consistent, and authentic. Tell

BATB score: 7/10 🫠 Best to: if you are going to read one book in this lifetime, this is the book for you; if you have read 100+ books in your lifetime, this book just summarizes all the good bits of every good book you’ve read - which you remember them all anyways, so more like re-worded reminder Best for: who the f is Steven Bartlett, even after googling him, I am still not sure who he is; but okay, he is skillful in summarizing other people’s books into his own book - I gu

BATB score: 6.6/10 🤖 *reader discretion advised* BATB is just a little bit bored of the GenAI/LLM hype 🫥 Best as: a great book about GenAI / LLM fundamentals, historical key milestones, reference cases, controversies, and future analysis 🧐 Best to: conclude the major takeaways of this book into bullet points, memorize them, own them; you are now equipped and qualified to go on a GenAI panel / discussion / keynote talk; you will looks legit - ahh what a charismatic knowledg

BATB score: 7.5/10 💛 *reader discretion advised: nerd alert* Best as: the mathematics behind GenAI; “personalization” means “conditional probability” and how Netflix customization and ratings works and the equations behind them all Best for: Bayes’s Rule as an Equation: P (H | D) = [ P(H) + P(D|H) ] / P(D) ; where P is probability, H is Hypothesis, and D is Data BATB lingering thought: The prevalence of breast cancer among people like Alice is 1%. That is, for every 1,000 40

BATB score: 8/10 ❤️ *TED Talk is hands down the epitome of world class public speaking - this book is all you need to know* Best to: why speak when this could have been an email you ask? because, “It’s the human overlay that turns information into inspiration.” Best as: an exhaustive lists of all the nooks and crannies to public speaking including how to start, how to finish, to memorize or not to memorize, what to wear, and how to save your presentation file in zip format *y

BATB score: 6/10 🥱 Best as: nothing more than what you already know compiled into a book with nice quotes here and there Best for: first time people manager Best to: I disagree, I believe that when you do get to be CEOs, be the CEO that is truest to who you are; no point following any framework or format; just be you, the board of directors, the company, your subordinates won’t be going to your funeral anyways Best quotes: “people don’t leave companies; they leave managers”

BATB score: 9/10 🥹 sending unsolicited emails to Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg asking for an interview may get you a hand-written rejection which is already content material 💯 Best as: diary of a 19-year-old dropout getting an exclusive interview with Maya Angelou, Bill Gates, and Lady Gaga 👏 via leveraging the “third door”connections aka persistence; never try never know The first door: the main entrance - where 99% of the people wait around hoping to get in The seco

BATB score: 2/10 😡 omg shut up already! you know that one old leadership who kept talking, mentioning hallow frameworks, shouting some tacky quotes “differentiate or die”, dumping more business terminology and acronyms where other words would have been sufficient, feeling like he is the smartest person in the room, but it’s only shit coins he’s holding on to? Best to: a complete leadership playbook with all the frameworks you can reference to - enough for a lifetime, good fo

BATB score: 7/10 😬 okay but not wow about how feeling good boosts our creativity and productivity Best to: only part 1 out of 3 is a BATB 10/10, part 2 was a knock off copy of Atomic Habits by James Clear, and part 3 was Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett; every section in this book is an elevator pitch BATB lingering thought: book recommended to BATB by a renowned c-level.. could it be that he only read part 1? Best as: take a break by taking a walk esp. take park walks al

BATB score: 10/10 👑 written by senior partners at Mckinsey (so you know it’s expensive in-depth research) Best as: a conclusive playbook on what makes a great CEO, inclusive of techniques on how to onboard oneself, manage board members, motivate the team, run a business, retired yourself, and keep sane as CEO 🥹 Best for: if you are in close proximity to a CEO, reporting into a CEO, working closely with a CEO, and/or scouting to climb the damn corporate ladder for that CEO r

BATB score: varies based on your nationality BATB score: 4/10 if you are Thai, born and raised, you don’t have to read this book we know this by heart BATB score: 8/10 if you are an expat in a leadership role in Thailand, also wtf are you doing in my country taking c-level roles that are better off lead by true-thais?! just because we are developing doesn’t mean that you-developed can march in and claim supremacy; why? just because you have a soothing English accent, oh god,

BATB score: 5/10 🤷‍♀️ Best for: you have to be in the start-up venture capitalist business to appreciate the tissue-paper billion dollar deal, the all-or-nothing gamble based on gut feelings,and the crazy mad man founders and even crazier investors Best to: too detailed for the average joe on a don’t really need to know basis Best as: so this is what it takes; missing your own wedding twice, a narcissistic belief in yourself as ultra indestructible, never wanting to step dow

BATB score: 4/10 🫥 Best for: the book explicitly said, written for Millennials, the world’s next leaders #aww Best as: started out very well as an Introduction to Business refresher, then tragically deteriorates in content quality and crushed all of the Millennials’ souls along with it Best to: a true example of generation gap in an organization in the format of a book; Gen X teaching Gen Y how to be leaders, cue Gen Y eye rolls BATB lingering thought: there are bits and pie

BATB score: 8/10 👨‍🏫 hey hey not bad professor! short, concise, to the point, research-driven, fun, with key chapter takeaways, and super actionable 💯 Best as: listening to one of Professor Michael L. Platt, Director of Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, lectures Best for: as if you are an MBA student at Wharton Business School Best to: easy morning class and off you go, on to the rest of your day BATB linger thought: there is a clear gap between a researcher/professor and r

BATB score: 6/10 🤖 meh. introduction to Microsoft company culture and 2030s vision under Satya Nadella’s ruling; fun fact, AI investment was already in the works since 2017 👏 Microsoft and OpenAI 🚀 Best for: if you are applying for a director role at Microsoft Best to: mister growth mindset, c in ceo stands for culture, one team one dream, learning from on-ground consumers, partners, and competitors, serving a sole north star “to empower every person and organization on th