A practical guide on how to design value network and bring breakthrough ideas to life, fast and efficiently. This book is not a long read, but it communicates ideas with a lot of visual elements in order to make easy to read and understand product strategies. Shaping your ideas made easy. Takeaways As it’s always…
Short text on strategy and how to win divided under 13 principles, which are still up to date nowadays. These texts teach you important management lessons you can use every day, Knowing this book has been written around -400 on our calendar, Sun Tsu can be called a visionary. Of course, you need to adapt…
The famous book from Dale Carnegie, a must read if you want to increase the effectiveness of your talks, practical examples included even if they are a bit outdated (the book has been on print for more than 70 years…). This book will teach you philosophy, management and good business manners, answering the question “how…
Methodology by the example or how Agile methodology can impact any industry. Jeff Sutherland delivers with all his optimism, a book on how scrum improved drastically small and big industries. Even if now Agile and Scrum is largely used in IT projects, some other industries still permeable at this fast paced highly effective methodology. In…
A real favorite! I enjoyed everything in this book, from the very personal tone of the biography, to the fine description of the entrepreneur path to success. We really feel the struggle of growing a business you may experience as an entrepreneur… Until you finally create the behemoth we know today. I also liked the…
It took me 2 hours to read this book, and I can say it was worth it! Authors used short stories as well as insight and extended researches to picture modern China, across 6 Mega-trends. I loved the value for money: you get very detailed view of China in just an hour (it is the…
Great in depth biography of Elon Musk, the real “Tony Stark” with a vision and a Masterplan to make all of us energy efficient and interstellar dreamers. What is stunning about the life of Elon is the “all or nothing” mind he puts in every decision he makes, and settle for nothing less than -his-…
Half Biography, half business book, this one offers a great picture of modern China. The life of Jack Ma is captivating and the path of early Chinese internet entrepreneurs too. The Alibaba strategy is explained in depth and allows you to understand the whole China internet landscape (but not only) in a very pleasant manner.…
I can easily describe this book as a PhD paper, because of the researches and efforts made to achieve it. The book describes how innovation can determine the fate of a company. From the disk drive industry to the automotive and steel companies, the in depth research teach how great companies can fail at bringing…
Let’s continue on the China’s business books series with China’s Disruptors from Edward Tse, which gives a good analysis of how the China system was continuously disrupted by its entrepreneurs. Lately I read a lot of books about China and just felt that this one lacked on details about companies themselves, but was great describing…
