Business Books
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Book Review: Wikinomics
Unfair as it is, to review a book like this and its predictions a few years after it is written, I do believe that the exercise does yield useful insights. Wikinomics by Don Tapscott, et al. is a well written and ambitious endeavor that attempts to cover a lot of ground in recent trends. They push Read more
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Book Review: Web 2.0 : A Strategy Guide
I guess it would be unfair ton critique a book on Web2.0 written in early 2007. However, it is an interesting exercise on looking at some predictions, some assumptions and some ideas just to figure out where they were right and where they failed. In all fairness to this book by Amy Shuen, it tries Read more
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Book Review: Blue Ocean Strategy
This classic by Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne is one of the best business books of our time. The authors classify Corporate competition into two segments, Red Ocean where firms compete for market share and Blue Oceans where one firm grabs the helm and makes the rest of the completion irrelevant. Kindle Audible Hardcover The Read more
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Book Review: Innovate like Edison
Sometimes, the best nuggets are found hidden in the bargain rack of your local Borders bookstore. That was exactly where I found this book, that for some reason, seems to have slipped the bestseller radar. From the bestselling author Michael Gelb who produced ‘How To Innovate like Leonardo Da Vinci’ comes this hidden jewel. While Read more
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Book Review: Freakonomics
I loved every moment of reading this book. It is outlandish and out of the ordinary. However, there was one facet, or lack thereof that stood out. It was the lack of a cohesive theme. All the anecdotes and stories broadly and somewhat loosely fall into the category of ‘Hidden details that tell the real Read more
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Book Review: Supercrunchers by Ian Ayres
In Blink, Gladwell presented a view that in order to make an effective decision an expert’s decision is far better than market studies and statistical analysis. Supercrunchers by Ian Ayres is the perfect antithesis to this view. Ayres opens Supercrunchers with two anecdotes, one where an expert statistician outperforms wine tasting gurus as to the Read more
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