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: 9/10 🤩 Best to: legit snack-able, relatable, practical storytelling version to the worlds of Yunal Noah Harari's mission to uncover who we were, who we are, and who will we be Best for: anyone who struggled to finish Yunal Noah Harari's books; this cartoon version of his famous Sapiens book is made for you and me; thank god for this "for dummies" version #hallelujah Best as: did you know that there were 6 species of hominins aka humans? Homo sapiens is not only o

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 🌺 Best to: it's about the horrendous atrocities of the holocaust from a young prisoner of war's point of view; how this young lady had hope through the death marches and how once liberated now grandma continues to be her jailor and haven't truly been free from what happened #PTSD Best for: memoirs of the holocaust survivors; consider this book only if you have read "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl and/or "The Diary of Anne Frank" Best as: "Only I

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: 6.78/10 🌎 the world is my oyster 🌍 Best to: hands down the best introduction to geo-politics and the major subcontinental dynamics books for dummies trying to understand the world Best for: wanderer of the great planet or candidates for the United Nations Organization (UN) - you better read this book before the interviews; or blind date conversation starters 'so what's your thought on the disputed borders in the Middle East?' Best as: high school geo-politics co

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: 1.7/10 👎 Best to: it was 71 things that doesn't really matter and that were just quick thought FYI. ie. that the tallest people are Dutch, that chicken is the most economical poultry, that Tokyo is the biggest megacity with 37.5 million population, that Italians are drinking less wine and more beer, or that the happiest country is Finland. Best for: I bet Vaclav Smil is one brilliant mind to deserve the respect of Bill Gates; but this book was not one of his resp

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: 5/10 not all of Mitch Albom's book is a 10/10 Best to: so jelly to have Mitch Albom write one's eulogy in the form of a globally sold book; Rev Henry, your life story from a rough start to jail to redemption to singing in the hospital is truthful to one's complicated life Best for: you don't have to be religious to relate to this book Best as: if you are going to read Mitch Albom's books, you might as well read all of Mitch Albom's books

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: 7.8/10 🧠 *Reader discretion advised* this a theoretical, thoroughly-researched, serious academic book. This book is smarter than all of us combined. I feel the blood, sweat, and tears; the discipline, determination, and passion of Jonathan Haidt in writing this comprehensive piece. #bravo Best to: 90% chimp 10% bee; fundamentally, we are competitive selfish hypocrites 🙈; yet, we morally can collate for the good of the group 🐝 Best for: debaters, political leade

BATB score: 8/10 🤎 Best to: true living definition of having a growth mindset, intellectual curiosity, trial and error approach, societal behavioural economics at work, define and re-define life, and laughing at oneself - Mr. Feynman! you are one hell of a character! Best for: if you like The Big Bang Theory series, Mr. Feynman is pretty much half-Sheldon, half-Leonard, and a little bit of Penny Best as: how could one person be a technician, a safecracker, a nuclear bomb sci

BATB score: 10/10 📕‼🔺 well-written 👏 the different lives of North Koreans: the selected Pyongyang elite, the starving Chongjin shameful caste, the defectors, the loyalist, the real tears and the saliva ones Best to: the best introduction to North Korea's communism rule, dictatorship regime, 360 propaganda, blinded loyalty, flawed management, starvation, hopeless deaths, and survival act of defectors Best for: politics and human rights aside; North Korea's Kim-family dictat

BATB score: 6/10 💩 okay but not wow Best to: if you haven't read Matt Haig's "Reasons to Stay Alive" and "The Midnight Library", please do that first and foremost; it's kind of obvious that this book wasn't made with as much thought process and care Best for: wouldn't you think my Matt Haig's collection complete? this book could also be a modern day bible on the teachings of how to be happier with what you got Best as: a poop 💩 book, a comfort book you take to the loo, read

BATB score: 6/10 🙏 an intensive spiritual book on the art of being in the now - preach Eckhart Tolle preach! amen good night 🌝 Best to: realize deeply that the present moment is all you have; but how? okay. close your eyes and say to yourself "I wonder what my next thought is going to be" .... and in that wait you are free of thought and in the now ta da! Best for: your ego is stuck in the past of who you were and in the future of you might be - key is, you will be happier

BATB score: 8.8/10 💜 BATB Fact: Mitch Albom's non-fiction biographies 👏 are way better than his overrated and redundant fictional tales Best to: Mitch Albom ⭐ Top 5 ⭐ definitely but do check out "Finding Chika" first and foremost Best for: all of us; who hates our mom at one point in our teenage and midlife years; okay 'hate' is a strong word, allow me to rephrase, annoyed of, dislike, conflicted with, offensive of, angered about mom, mommy, mother. Best as: a memoir to all

BATB score: 8.5/10 💙 a brilliant biography about the making of someone and the meaning of life Best to: the fact that James R. Doty, MD is a bad academic student with an unaccommodating family upbringing, an exceptionally neurosurgeon, a 75M USD business investor, a CCARE philanthropist, and an author of his own enlightenment makes him relatable 360 Best for: anyone who is asking 'what's the meaning of life'? 🙋‍♀️🙋 Best as: this book is "The Secret" Rhonda Byrne mixed with