BATB score: 0/10 Zero to None* it’s so bad it hurts. Unfinished random thoughts of uncle Thiel that failed to convey any meaning. Fragmented paragraphs and loosely described concepts, it’s like he’s sleep-talking 💤 social distancing with every sentence ❌ Best for: Uncle Peter Thiel and Uncle Peter Thiel alone #tablefor1 Best to: live like this book never exists #unforgivable #bookstagram Best as: proof that not all successful business founders are great writers (Thiel co-fou

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 Good stuff definitely but wordy, unstructured with outdated anecdotes.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: 7.654321 / 10 🚀 Best as: today's real life Iron Man, with a bullied childhood, insane dreams - Mission to Mars, deep pockets, an arrogant attitude, trophy wives, and twins, triplets, and X Æ A-12 Best to: get ready for super detailed pages of Zip2, X dot-com aka Paypal, SolarCity, SpaceX, and Tesla - Harvard Business School equivalent cases #IAmAnEngineerNow Best to: save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation 👽👾🤖 Fun Fact: 149.9B, 85B, 79

BATB score: 3.14/10 yes, Ray Dalio, 18 billion USD net worth, richest hedge fund firm wrote, wrote this #Principles #RayDalio #bookstagram yes, Bill Gates recommends this #BillGates #GateNotes BUT NO, don't bother. It's like reading a bullet point with sub-bullet points with sub-sub-bullet points on and on. The bullet points are redundant and repetitive. A very torturing (book?) NASA manual to read. #DontLetAnyOneTellYouOtherwise Best for: the some good parts to be re-written

BATB score: 8.9/10 💫🙆 A+ insightful e-commerce blueprint. Mastermind's playbook on why Amazon.com stock price is 3000++ USD and why Jeff Bezos is the richest human in the world. Best for: #Shopee #Lazada #JDCentral #Tokopedia #Bukalapak senior management to read this; oh sorry, that's right you don't read #gutfeelsleadership Best to: deepdive into how Bezos foresees a challenger, quickly dumps shitload of money into a competing business model (which was not meant to last),

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 4.5/10 *blah blah blah talk* Best to: study it than read it - more like a course work textbook than a casual read OR an orientation manual on how to be 'good' Chief Product Manager 101 Best for: if you are an aspiring Product Manager or conquering such career path, this book is both a 101 and a reminder of your core job (in case you've forgotten them); okay to skip this book if you are pursuing any other career ambitions Best as: seriously though, how many of us r

BATB score: 10/10! ⭐️🌟⭐️ Amazing. Bravo. Worth every chapter. Clear actionable. Reflective. Concise. #MarshallGoldsmith you genius! Best as: a wake-up call for all senior managers and/or C-level-to-be that “It’s not about you. It’s about what other people think of you” - you are now a public figure and showing such self-improvement desires is positively accepted Best for: 'bad boss attitude' may have gotten you here; but 'good boss leadership' will get you there Best as: dar

BATB score: 6/10 for the darling graphics 🍭 Proof that investing in an MBA to learn the principles is over-rated. Investing in an MBA to find a wife/husband is more acceptable. #valueformoney Best as: it feels like talking to a consultant. You got all the frameworks and the paper concepts down, you look smart, sharp and credible; but we all know that you are full of air #shallow #airhead Best for: go get an MBA when you are single and make sure that you get that certificate

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: 6.7/10 okay but not wow. tip of the iceberg inspiration. one-liner instagram captions. an easy-read of 30 interview transcripts from David Rubenstein lifetime interview records with big name leaders - CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers Best as: key to be exceptional leaders: luck, desire to succeed, pursuit of something new and unique, hard work / long hours, focus, failure, persistence, persuasiveness, humble demeanour, credit-sharing, ability to keep learning, in

BATB score: 3/10 🤦‍♀️ the book lives in 2006 (as per its published year) - blaming and slapping myself for picking such a book Best for: exceptionally wordy superficially covering heavy topics like price discrimination, taxation on the marginal, globalization, global warming, and China's strides Best to: skip this book. Tim Harford's way of writing sounds like that uncle (we all have) that obviously is trying to make a very educated point but ends up making numerous unrelate

BATB score: 7/10 💸 Reader discretion is advised: heavy. very heavy book dated back to the 1970s stock market. not for the light-hearted amateur readers. However, reader may survive this book by reading only the chapter commentary by Jason Zweig as he speaks human while Benjamin Graham speaks alien investor dashboard. Best as: a book that inspired Warren Buffett to build his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. empire and be the world's top 10 richest man #dayum having this book in my pos

BATB score: 7/10 from 🐰 to 🐲 Best to: know that 90% of advertising doesn't work; advertising is not all that powerful to make behavioural changes, incremental sales, or a shift in societal norm #blahblah. To quote the book, all that advertising does is to "give client an edge over their competitor" ; that's all. Best for: communications major students / graduates who are off doing a variety of jobs for a pay check - hello! me included 🙋‍♀️ (who said we're in this advertisi

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: 10/10 💯 I've always been a big fan of Netflix culture since reading "Powerful" by Patty Mccord 2018 - absolutely dream company 💋 Best to: Netflix culture is very real - team not family, pay top of the market, 360 radical candor, 100% organizational transparency, 100% autonomy no rules rules! Best for: job opening? I would like to work at Netflix please. I believe I would be a great contributor! I will not cry I promise. Blah, who am I kidding... applied and reje