BATB score: 10/10 🧜‍♀️💫🧚 How Robert Iger started from the bottom now he's here (Disney Chairman WOOT!). A collection of all the key tipping points he has learnt throughout his life. #InnovateorDIE Best as: a reminder that being a good employee making your way up the typical corporate ladder is an undervalued and under-appreciated lifestyle. Robert Iger's annual salary is 65.7M as Disney CEO. His net worth is 690M. Best to: remember that great leaders stay humble #stopbragg

BATB score: 9/10 🐋🦑🐢 The most subtle and adorable way to alarm you about the effects of climate change to the polar bears, the orcas, and the narwhals. Best for: any kid who dreamt to be a marine biologist but had to succumb to his/her asian parents and became a doctor, a finance audit, and/or any typical all-star office employee instead 🧑‍💻👨‍💻 Best as: okay, mid-adult-children-book. it's illustration -> definitely too cute but its description -> hey-yo scientific big

BATB score: 2.1 / 10 😵 It's not you, it's me. I surrender. 🏳️ I really CAN NOT do Yuval Noah Harari. Lion King hakuna matata lifestyle, the Truman show CCTV, fake news of wine and bread, and more odd ball anecdotes. Well thought through but presented in abrupt concepts - imagine a Professor taking forever to build up to the point, taps the point a bit, *bell rings*, that's all - the end. #whaaa Best to: you either love Yuval Noah Harari or you don't #yuvalnoahharari Best as

BATB score: 7.5/10 How Netflix would have been a shampoo company and its journey to introduce "binge watching" and "Netflix and chill". Best as: a "long story short" from one entrepreneur to another; it was never about getting rich - it was about the thrill of doing good work, the pleasure of solving problems. Best to: know that startup is a lonely place, best to have a best friend entrepreneur who's doing this with you. Best for: entrepreneur wannabes. Nobody Knows Anything.

BATB score: 9.5/10 Behavioural economics and the science behind 'when' to volunteer to go first, to get married, to quit a job, to get a divorce, etc. Best for: 19, 29, 39, 49 year olds trying to finish a book (and hoping to claim that one has a healthy reading lifestyle) before one turns to yet another decade old Best to: know that “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” - Miles Davis Best as: a book 'nappucino' - a very simple read between other heavy books Note:

BATB score: 8.5/10 ⭐️ 92 little tricks for you to fake it until you make it! Best as: a how to be a 'Somebody' manual for dummies - great posture, a heads-up look, a confident smile, and a direct gaze. Best to: it's ludicrous to remember and act on all 92 tricks: smile, eye contact, pause, prep topics, notes, killer compliment #madness. Aiming to execute 9.2/92 is already a huge win for me #chachacha 💃🕺 Best for: climbers of the corporate ladder, victims of networking circl

BATB score: 2.7/10 #flop Recommended by the COO of an orange e-commerce platform as a worthy read during covid lockdown masked in a self-PR Linkedin wall post #catchmygoodside Unfortunately, only chapters 1 and 7 were interesting reads; the rest were meh. Best to: know that the CUE, the ROUTINE, and the REWARD is all that a habit is made of and all that this book is based of. Best for: definitely a number of good anecdotes and subject matter - but reading the book's summary w

BATB score: 10/10 ❣️ Strongly Recommend! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ How could one endure so much on a route of the unknown with trickery, trafficking and bribes for the mere basics of freedom? #sob #lifeinjustice #KimDictatorship Best for: all of us - there are more struggles, sufferings, and life threats that one can face more than one can imagine Best to: I felt like giving up many times from reading her 11 years journey; I surrender, I am a coward. 🏳️ #FML #KillMeNow Best as: maybe we hold t

BATB score: 8/10 Being a ‘Facebook’ manager is a privilege. The skillsets and the techniques suggested requires high reader discretion. Actual application in common day 'any other company' management may not be worth the effort. #unempoweredmembers Best for: any other company manager or manager-to-be to check it out and try to adapt as much as it still make sense #FakeItNeverMakeIt Best as: not all company are made equal: OKR vs KPI, self-driven vs salary-driven, fixed vs gro

BATB score: 6/10 🥱💤 How to operate your memory brain - Rhetorica Ad Herennium with memory palaces and Person-Action-Object (PAO) technique eg. #89 - snowfall ❄️ Best as: how to train to be mental athletes for the USA Memory Championship - very relatable, definitely every childhood dream 💭 #sarcasm Best to: watch the Netflix documentary "Memory Games" which perfectly summarises the gist of this book in 1.5 hours at 6.7/10 imdb score instead Best for: the book cover and book

BATB score: 4/10 🙄👎🥱 10/10 for the book title #clickbait 4/10 for the numerous self-anecdotes #selfpraise and under-developed concepts. At most common sense techniques in business. This book deserves to die. Best to: read the elaborated negotiating principles in "How to Talk to Anyone" - Leil Lowndes; and the office politics principles in "Power" - Jeffrey Pfeffer Best as: toilet reads, each topic takes like 3 minutes to read and 3 seconds to digest the minimal gist that e

BATB score: 10/10 🧠👁🦵🦷💪 Best for: you to buy this and have this as a well needed elementary anatomy book to educate our future generations: oesophagus, borborygmus, and coronavirus Best to: reminiscent on your childhood aspiration of becoming a doctor and making your asian parents proud Best as: a journey down memory lane to all those anatomy classes memorising medical terms for no apparent day-to-day use; seriously when was the last time you said 'gluteus maximus' in a

BATB score: 8/10 🌶🥨🍣🍭 Adorable book on all food consumed around the world. Lovable illustrations; yet, minimal educational content. Best as: fun no-brainer read (literally no brain was needed) with cutesie drawings that sparks joy #adorbs Best to: know that sunflower seeds 🌻, cucumber 🥒, and corn 🌽 are actually fruits not vegetables Best for: middle-aged adults wanting to take a break from our day-to-day madness. The part on the different types of coffee and wine was h

BATB score: 2/10 for the 200/570 pages that I've read before giving up completely #Isurrender 🏳️ Too detailed for a 'short history' which can be 'even shorter' by half at least. Too many names and too many 'this happened, then that happened, but then there's that, and now it's this'. I am so sorry. I can not. Best as: good night story that will definitely put you to sleep or confuse you to coma Best to: it's okay, just skip it. Best for: I believe Yuval Noah and Bill Bryson

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: 4/10 🥱 Business case examples were all from ancient 1950s - okay, to be fair, the book was written in 2001; but that’s like light years ago grand-daddy, millennial me can not relate Best to: just read the summary pages of each chapter for free at the bookstores Best as: okay, the concept on Level 5 Leadership and First Who, Then What still makes a lot of sense - omg 20 years later 😱 Best for: bragging rights at a networking event if someone says “The book that d

BATB score: 9.99/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ whaa they've divorced. Melinda Gates, what you've done and shared is eye/heart-opening to how privileged and ignorant we all can be. The stories, the thought process, the bottom-up methodology, and the passion is heartfelt. #philantrophy Best for: "When you have more than you need at a material level, what's next? Where do our gifts connect with a need in the world?" - Melinda Gates #fangirlfainting Best as: a reminder that there are so many more im

BATB score: 2/10 🙄 I would have to say that your sentence structure and narration is a little bit off. It’s like you tried to cover the history and accomplishments of a person per chapter concisely but yet the part you chose to bold wasn’t making the point you intended. Best to: skip it in its entirety; turn a blind eye and just walk the other way. Best as: why was this book part of a reading list for the ‘innovation’ module from a distinguished MBA curriculum in the UK agai

BATB score: 7/10 🌟 I would love to hear Hans Rosling's opinion on our current covid19 pandemic - especially how he noticed that Ebola spread via moving Ebola-dead-loved-ones around communities as a cultural ritual of respect. Best for: it's a memoir; true fanclubs of Hans Rosling #RIPHansRosling Fanclub criteria: (1) have read and loved "Factfulness" by Hans, Ola, and Anna Rosling (2) have watched and adored Hans' 2006 TED Talk Best to: complete the fanclub criteria both #1

BATB score: 5.5/10 🐸 “If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.” Best to: it's an okay but not wow book with 21 repetitive and non-MECE techniques on how to kick start your lazy bum butt and have a more productive life Best for: procrastinators of everything - just eat that frog already! stuff it! stuff it in! chew and swallow! chew and swallow! 🐸🤮 Best as: a 'poop book' aka a book you take with you to complete your daily poop missions - finish a chapter in