BATB score: 9/10 *BATB re-read still legit but less wow* Best to: RIP Bill Campbell, you set the bar really high on people manager roles and responsibilities above and beyond on all fronts Best as: a playbook for leaders for every office situation imaginable Best for: when they strip you off your title, do people still follow you? If yes, congratulations, you are a true leader. BATB lingering thought: as leaders, when you clap for your team, clap with energy and genuine enthu

BATB score: 9/10 👏 BATB re-reads Best to: easier said than done but yes three great leadership one-minute tricks; clear goals, timely praising, constructive re-directs BATB lingering thought: but does it work with dinosaurs 🦖 🦕 ready to retire in too-big-to-fail conglomerates? it’s my turn now, globally groomed millennials hired to be the change in antique companies 💪 among Gen X legacy Best for: so what kind of leader do you want to be? Best as: playbook when leading a

BATB score: 9.5/10 Reality slap-in-the-face book for all those optimistic Joys from Inside Out to WAKE UP! A reminder that the world has never been fair and how your hope to bring back justice and world peace already made you a loser. “Power” why some people has it - and others don’t. A book about how being smart is never enough, how being friends or liked by everyone gets you nowhere, and why power on top of others is what you should aim to have. Filled with anecdotes from l

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: 10/10 Wow. Just Wow. An on-point manual to all the 21st-century disrupting leaders. The book challenges top companies' best practices in acquiring, managing, and firing talents. Even Facebook and Google (the best companies to work for) got a decent slap-in-the-face KO. The content below may be depressing to those ocean eyes naive hopeful souls. For example: - Firing people (even the best talents and managers) who have become irrelevant to the company's north stars

BATB score: 10/10 a practical memoir of Bill Campbell (life coach to big-name leaders: Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg, Steve Jobs) This book v good. A concise, clear, approachable, and actionable people-principles that you can read today and adopt tomorrow. Honestly, I feel like a better manager already with all these know-how in my head! Best for: people who want to be better people; a reminder for all of us to be genuine and "be kind to one another" Best as: a 2020 New Year gi

BATB score: 10/10 ⭐️ Best Management Bible Ever! ⭐️ Spencer Johnson's style of storytelling as in Who Moved My Cheese series: concise and crisp (without the 🧀 maze) Best for: any manager who cares about being a better people manager. As for those who believe he/she is already the best manager ever, go love yourself. 🤬 Best to: be reminded of goal-alignment, sincere praising, and constructive feedback with any human being. Best as: a departure gift for those result-only-orie

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: 8/10 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: 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: 8/10 👑 Back in 1532, Machiavelli wrote a 'How to be a Powerful Prince for Dummy Princes 101'. Best for: a very delicate playbook on how to manage/lobby your power game for existing and newly conquered colonies, loyal servants, and abolished toxic minds; topics are extremely relevant to today's office politics (except the 'killing those who hate you' part) Best as: a how-to political manual; from corrupting with soldiers, keeping noblemen in line, soliciting an ad

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: 7/10 ⚡️ Did I do my best to be happy? Did I do my best to find meaning? A book about owning your life as a protagonist for being a better version of yourself everyday. Best to: read Marshall Goldsmith's "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" 🌟 first and foremost; then if you are still keen, have a take on this book Best for: guilt-ridden victim of "satisficing" - our tendency to commodify everyday choices because chasing that last bit of improvement is not worth

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: 10/10 🌟 Life-changing book for all people managers. Are you a genius or are you a genius maker? Best to: concise, tangible, practical 💯 how the best leaders make everyone smarter; two types of managers out there: diminishers and multipliers; multipliers get 2X from their team and builds a legacy as a genius maker Best for: should be a required read for all people managers; raise your hands if you have asked for more headcount yet your team is working hard but no

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: 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 10/10 💙💙💙 to all women and LGBTQIA+ who are climbing the corporate ladder in this patriarchal bro-hood, you MUST READ this book; it does not get any more honest, real, critical, and actionable than this 💯 Best to: hey baby girl, let's have a real talk about what you need to do to get on top. don't fall victim to the imposter syndrome, cinderella syndrome, queen B fallacy - f$ck it, kill them all 👸 Best for: hey baby girl, I don't think you will be ready for wh

BATB score: 9/10 🖤 12 disciplines of leadership from U.S. Navy Seals - surprisingly very applicable to business leaderships - this is the type of management your team members would strongly appreciate 💯 Best to: when it's life or death, leadership is key; and even though in business, there's is no life or death per se, leadership is still key 🔑 BATB lingering thought: this book is extremely well-written, starting each chapter with anecdotal story tell from war in Iraq, con