BATB score: 6.3/10 💛 Best to: first 50-pages game strong intel, the rest 170 pages were alright Best for: when your creative director recommends a book into a world of colourful creative minds, you do what it takes to see things from the same wonderland viewpoint Best as: Dave Trott writing style - short story snippets 2-3 pages long and moving on to the next chop chop story; legit easy read Best quotes: “you can have what you want, or you can have your reasons for not havin

BATB score: 3/10 😒 This book incorporates 28 interview with 28 global top leaders on their business strategic thoughts with Covid19. Interviews were conducted in 2020 so most leaders were still exceptionally optimistic. Best as: this book is like Where is Waldo? but Where is the point? kinda twist; mostly every interview has one key kicker comment that’s quotable, the rest is shit Best to: just read the last chapter (chapter 29 - last 9 pages) of the book at the bookstore; t

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: 8/10 🏆 Dear Stephen A. Schwarzman, you are such an interesting and an incredible self-made human being. I feel so humble to have read through your journey to one of the richest man on earth. 🖤 Best to: definitely an uphill battle from being Lehman Brothers' low-life form employee, starting Blackstone with your mentor at Lehman, diversifying the business wherever the opportunities are, taking it global, and becoming an advisor to the US Presidents. #dayum All tha

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

BATB score: 4/10 🌧 cloudy with a chance of murky brain Best to: this is not a book, this is an encyclopedia; 200+ MBA concepts dump into one thick-ass book in 200+ short introductory snippets - too brief for in-depth understanding and too shallow for any practical adaptation Best for: personally, pursuing an MBA and/or climbing the corporate ladder has nothing to do with how many MBA concepts you get to learn and remember Best as: a smart-ass encyclopedia that makes your she

BATB score: 5.5/10 💲💲💲 a very specialized book on managing a sales organization 🙋🙋‍♀️ if you are big boss enough to relate, then this book is made for you; profitable business or die Best to: a blueprint manual on how to make money for your business; conceptual, anecdotal, and directive do's and don'ts; freemium to premium -> hypergrowth takes 7 years Best for: c-suite, executive level, business key decision makers on how to build an aggressive sales team, a motivational

BATB score: 7.7/10 💛 Jeffrey Pfeffer is a one of a kind author who writes about unpopular truths of office politics and leadership blah blah. Best to: you know how other leadership books discuss about godlike outlier kings and queens of perfect leadership? well, that feels good, uplifting narrative is depressing; this book is taking on a stance on the distrustful, disengaged, dissatisfied, despairing flip side Best for: actors in leadership positions as acting is essential t

BATB score: 5.5/10 🤔 Best to: a mini book that you take to cafes as photo prop; the book itself is a creative showcase; beautiful layouts, fonts, juxtaposition of image and text - a visually beautiful book Best for: cafe hoppers, lifestyle influencers, coffee drinkers, people who work in the creative industry Best as: a 💩 poop book quick reads on the hustling tips and techniques in the life of an advertising creative Best quote: “Early to bed. Early to rise. Work like hell

BATB score 6.6/10 😴 Started out exceptionally strong on the basics to business and blitzscaling; unfortunately, things went downhill from Part III onwards… Best to: Reid Hoffman is a legit business guru who writes well in conveying business concepts; from his latest 2021 work “Masters of Scale”, this oldie 2018 book proves that Hoffman does write better every year or so Best for: business students as university course required read - a perfect mixture of principles, business

BATB score: 10/10 🏆 the most important money book in mankind about having 'enough' and so anything more is mere incremental but I am already comfortable Best to: clarity in 'JOMO' joy of missing out when your friends post on social media about their high gains on crypto and/or stock investment as it's probably because of pure luck that can not be repeated Best for: all of us; questioner of 'meaning of life' and one's relationship with money Best as: the best investment strat

BATB score: 8/10 🕵️ easiest read in mankind. thank you Ray Dalio for dumbing the principles down for us to understand what you are trying to say 🙏 Best to: I feel like Ray Dalio is trying to squeeze out every money making opportunity while disgusting the attempt as 'the building of one's legacy' and 'sharing of one's learnings' #inspirational; this book is freaking expensive while the content is like itsy bitsy Best for: raise your hand if you believed "Principles" by Ray D

BATB score: 8/10 👩‍🦰 well-written 👏 legit / strong analysis of sexism from child's play to C-level dynamics to everyday balancing career vs family; the numerous women-centric expectations, burden, and challenges just to be considered as equal to men Best to: women leadership, breaking the glass ceiling via leading by example; Sheryl Sandberg's legacy aka linkedin profile in a format of a book Best for: mothers juggling a successful career and quality time with family; I co

BATB score: 6.7/10 ☂️ a very niche book on design flaws, design frameworks, and practical designs catering to humans' common sense use Best to: blame the machine and the design! they are at fault when humans had to take some time to read the manuals to comprehend 'how to turn on/off device' when it should have been intuitive #duh Best for: product designers in the making of user-centric devices Best as: the examples about the 4 table stove knobs, the push/pull door, the QWERT

BATB score: 7.6/10 🧐 well-researched, well-written, thoroughly analysed groundwork on how being a generalist makes you see the bigger picture and allows you to creatively strategise more than specialists; a very nerdy book #nerdalert Best to: serious documentation and experiments on how generalist rules, scrutinising the common belief that favors specialisation; yet redundant with the last few chapters quite wishy washy 💦 Best for: a lot of tech / business key opinion leade

BATB score: 3/10 🐢 only business schools and leadership programs memorizes strategic principles eg. OGSM (objectives, goals, strategy, and measure statement) Best to: P&G is such a Gen X success story; Gen Z 'start-ups, ventures, hustles' can not really benefit from this book's do's and don't's Best for: CEOs of global FMCG/CPG conglomerates esp when you are in charge of setting business strategies from merger and acquisition deals, supplier negotiations, consumer-product in

BATB score: 6.7/10 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 💯 % important but not written for the general public; maybe if we write a more casual version and call it "Why You Should Not Date Your Boss", it may be more well-received la Best to: "Sleeping with my boss was a big mistake. I own it. Well, half of it. Problem was, I paid for all of it." and so SHE had to quit to save the HE in power; urgh so unfair! Best for: "What hurts the victim the most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence

BATB score: 4/10 😴 This book is a 101 manual on "how to conduct a silicon-valley-style product initiation sprints" aka fancy offsite activity for the elite c-levels and directors Best to: uninterrupted 5 intensive days of problem cracking, idea sketches, product prototype, and focus group feedback = wala the new miracle cure! it only works if the group comprise of over-qualified leaders who really wanted to make a difference +110% invested in the company #notme Best for: out

BATB score: 7/10 👹🖤 recommended by the ousted ex-prime minister of Thailand - Thaksin Shinawatra - the detailed fundamentals to his current philosophy of governing and living 👏 Best to: a critical book to read if you want to become a politician - to kill or to be killed, how the fox befriended the tiger, believing in dharma, meditate, pick your battles, money is just a means to an end, and be extremely greedy for success 💯 Best for: if you believe in "winners take all", h

BATB score: 7/10 🏙 Adam Neumann, WeWork co-founder, though a billion dollar loser is still a billionaire 💸 - yes, fortune favours the bold Best to: sales skills, extruding confidence, charismatic persona and interpersonal skills trump actual business numbers in gaining trust from co-founders and billion dollar investors Best for: a critical book for aspiring entrepreneurs, start-ups innovators, and IPO dreamers to learn about the hustles and pitfalls of a one-person leaders