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Managing Up: How to Get What You Need From the People in Charge by Melody Wilding
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


Fish Tales: Real-Life Stories to Help You Transform Your Workplace and Your Life by Stephen Lundin
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


For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be by Marcus Collins
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
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