BATB score: 7/10 🤔 Best for: first jobbers / young rat racers or a reminder for senior leaders; how to be beloved by your manager, how to navigate office gossip and benefit from corridor talk, how to ask for a raise, and when and how to quit tactfully Best as: once you are more senior, you either figure out how to navigate manager politics with your own playbook or you don’t give a fuck any more 😂 BATB lingering thought: at 35 years old, after sprinting in this corporate ra

BATB score: 9/10 🐟 *book elevator pitch* how did Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle (mandate roles, smelly fish, early hours, low wages) be a fun, happy, great place to work? Best as: simple easy good read, here’s a conclusive book summary 1. PLAY - Work made fun gets done. 2. MAKE THEIR DAY - turn routine encounters into special memories 3. BE THERE - be present wholeheartedly 4. CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE - optimism and gratefulness attracts positivity Best for: a reminder for al

BATB score: 5/10 🧘‍♀️ reader discretion advised nothing on meditation Best as: 28 mini-chapters to be read over 28 days on how to live life a little bit lighter ; yet, mediocre daily mini-lessons 😴 Best as: free basic therapy Best for: anxious people Best quotes: “It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are.” “Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder, harnessed for productivity.” “There’s no authority with the power to demand that

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 reader discretion advised book recommended by a renowned leader - you motherf$cker, you are dead to me! Best as: basic. on not HOW? but NOW! go start your business Best for: junior entrepreneurs BATB summary: about what business should I start? “What’s the most painful / valuable problem you can solve for people that you also have passion for and/or unique expertise in, solve for the largest niche possible that you belong to and understand.” BATB lingerin

BATB score: 6/10 🤝 content is quite common sense for millennials Best as: once Gen X workforce retires, roughly 2030, dear millennials it’s our time to rise up and enforce work life separation! 4-day work week💥 unlimited leave day 💥 work as a means to an end 💥 attack! Best for: millennials in the workforce, we are the adults in the room now Best to: millennials leaders to have a social media presence, awareness about diversity, equity, and inclusion, leadership with trans

BATB score: 8/10 👍 Best as: culture marketing playbook #legit Best to: everything in life is marketing - religion, music, global warming, everything Best for: marketers - “start with the soul and end with the sale” because “We were looking for fans when we should have been looking for believers.” BATB lingering thought: “If Thanksgiving is the day that we reflect on all that we have, then Black Friday is the day that we realize we don’t have enough.” damn, imagine a marketin

BATB score: 6/10 🚫 reader discretion advised this book is trying to pitch for an unpopular opinion that “while grit is a virtue, quitting is a vice” that quitting is a winner mentality - tough pitch indeed Best for: when quitting is the better obvious choice, can we clap for quitters? Best to: there are marathon runners who finished the race despite a broken leg because quitting is not an option Best as: applause for the Mount Everest climbers who turned back and didn’t mak