BATB score: 5.55/10 Best to: “Vagina” once the taboo was breached, it released a torrent of memories, anger, and sorrow Best as: Happy to have sponsored you. Quirky vagina monologues. Eve Ensler’s presenter notes compiled in a book. Watch her speech on YouTube also can. Best for: feminists.

BATB score: 5.2/10 Best as: 52 ways to make peace with the world. Short stories. Quick endings. No action. Best for: self-improvement fanatics

BATB score: 5/10 More of an encyclopedia than a readable book. Lists of ways to open a speech, respond to an offensive colleague, close a meeting, reply to liars, accept compliments, to say 'I don't know' powerfully, and 300+ more breakdowns of day-to-day encounters. Best as: a gift to untactful vocal leaders 🤬 Best for: new humans 🧛‍♀️🧟‍♀️🧜‍♀️ to learn how to be more human OR advanced humans 👸👩‍🎓👩‍🚀 to explore new varieties of eloquent communicative phrases to enlig

BATB score: 5.15/10 Whether high context (I am fine, thank you) or low content speakers; whether confrontational or informal when it comes to negative feedback; whether egalitarian (friend-friend) or hierarchical (godlike boss) leaders; to whether logic based or relationship based trust. There are cultural and communication clashes because we are all born and raised differently. 🔑 key here: be wary but be yourself. Explain that we approach things differently (I am this and y

BATB score: 5/10 a collection of Greta Thunberg's climate crisis speeches. This is proof that frequency matters. She has only 1 message: "wake up" to the climate CRISIS (not climate change - no reality nor urgency there). Know the core science, <8.5 years left until Earth uses all of its 420 gigatonnes of CO2 quota. Fail and Earth will exceed >1.5+ Celsius with Y2030 incurring irreversible chain reactions beyond all homo sapiens' control. Leaders do something now (so we can g

BATB score: 5/10 This book takes you back to high school literature class. A very abstract self-improvement parable - where you then write a 500-words assignment on the symbolism and psychoanalysis of what Paulo Coelho must have meant. p.s. your ambiguity is frustrating. The no-climax fable with out-of-this-world characters, where the wind talks and a scarab beetle is an omen, cross paths in the oddest plot lines Spain-Africa-Egypt. Best to: read when quarantined #covid19 or

BATB score: i5-9600K / 10 Classic old-school management book with all time favourite Maslow's hierarchy, mid-year appraisal-review, and 1-1s. #booksince1983 #stilltrue Best for: any one of Andy Grove's children or ex-colleague to rewrite this book. Good stuff definitely but wordy, unstructured with outdated anecdotes. Best as: a sacred original to all management books that had follow suit Best to: read Powerful by Patty McCord and/or Trillion Dollar Coach instead Fun Fact: An

BATB score: 2+2=5/10 The extremes of a totalitarian regime: watched 24/7 by Big Brother tele-screens, people 'vaporized' gone bye-bye, Room 101 tortures chambers, one sole ideology to believe/love/worship. All of which is relatable today. Best as: it's a masterpiece classics. literature class 101 pre-reading book. bookclub post-read brainstorm worthy Best to: damn George Orwell! - how did you compose this twisted well-narrated triumphant of a legendary book?! Best for: all of

BATB score: 5.55 / 10 To be fair, Simon Sinek is an outstanding inspirational speaker but not so much of an inspirational writer. #flop Best to: check out Simon Sinek's YouTube videos instead Best as: Simon Sinek writes like he speaks. It was kind of weird. May be better to check out his audiobooks. Best for: some parts of the book reminds me of that old uncle who is full of hot air - you know he's trying to make a point but what's the point exactly?

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

BATB score: 5/10 🤦‍♀️ The Confidence Code of all human existence both male and female comes from both nature and nurture. Find yourself a confident role model. Best to: very wordy and wishy washy; the main gist is definitely there but can be summarized into a page Best for: "Women tend to talk 75% less when they were outnumbered by men in the same room; while a man in a room with mostly women talks just as much as he always does." Hey yo! We need to speak up and claim our se

BATB score: 5.10/10 💢 5 for the 5 highlighted historical leaders and 0.10 for the 10 years Nancy Koehn took to write this book. *Spoiler Alert* It's a history book. Best to: know that it is actually 5 individual books within this one book. It's a history book written by a historian inclusive of all the details from birth to death of the subject's account trying to bundle leadership concepts wherever possible. Best for: the book was written in 2017; do we really have to refer

BATB score: 5/10 💔 this book could have been an email Best to: everything there is to this book is in its table of contents - reading into each chapters does not really make any difference or add any further value Best for: just read the table of contents of all the seven CEO test questions - doing so would suffice Best as: the book cover was definitely clickbait

BATB score: 5/10 🎯 This book is about taking a step back and understanding your true meaning of life, whether you have committed to such ambitions or have delayed such gratification. Claiming that friends and family are important to you yet will cancel on them for ad hoc work 💯%. Best to: the first half of the book was legit strong 💪 while the second half was a tad bit watery and wonky; yet definitely good stuff in its entirety, easily digestible and an easy read Best for:

BATB score: 5/10 💢 Not bad but boring. Best to: finding good points in this book was like finding needles in the haystack among the clustered anecdotes; they're there but where? the book can be summarised into a one-pager. Best for: street protestors. the book talks about how to avoid and resolve high conflicts; in a way, the opposite can be used to start one 🔥 Best as: "Real change requires putting sustained pressure on people and institutions that benefit from the current

BATB score: 5/10 🏄‍♀️🌏 too detailed and written in textbook style an autobiography on who is Yvon Chouinard, the origins of Patagonia Inc, and the philosophy behind the business environmental morales and day-to-day enjoyable and sustainable operations Best to: true passion driven business 💯 started with the love for the outdoors; translates into business values 'let my people go surfing' flextime policy, donating 10% of profit to non-profit environmental groups, and creati

BATB score: 5/10 💔 you either love it or you hate it kind of book Best to: it's about depression, suicide, coping with losses, moving on, unable to move on, and Murakami style porno writings via the main character's POV Best for: if you started to read Murakami, you might as well read every book from Murakami Best as: the main character has >10 sexual encounters or telltales throughout the 400 pages of this book; this book is 100% rated R Best quotes: “Don't feel sorry for y

BATB score: 5/10 🎸 unfortunately, not in Mitch Albom's top 3 best books. Best to: unlike Mitch Albom's previous signature works, this book is 2X longer at 490 pages about a fiction character called Frankie Presto; from the day he was born to the day he passed, it was quite a long journey through a series of events Best for: if you read 2-3 Mitch Albom's books, you might as well read every single book by Mitch Albom Best as: part of a Mitch Albom's collection 📕📙📘

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: 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