Oops, I did it again. This is not a book review in the purest sense of the written word. It is more of an audiobook review to be more exact.
I had to read, I mean listen, to this book. My brother was raving about it, it was being mentioned everywhere, I saw a presentation by [...]
You know, after reading this book I fell in love with Sony. It’s so hard to resist the human element of Sony’s history. From the humble beginnings in a devastated city after the second world war and the ambition Morita showed to pursue his dreams with a trusted mentor and friend, Professor Ibuka. It is [...]
The book begins with an open question, in 2002 the market capitalization of Samsung surpassed that of Sony, how did this happen?
The author thoroughly explores the differences between these two companies – one a well respected icon in electronics and the other a young upstart with a coloured past. And comes to rest on the [...]
My goodness I loved this book! I got this book from the library because it had such an intriguing opening and was so densely written: the authors didn’t waste time getting to the main points and they had a whole lot!
The main argument of the book is this – there are two general economic principles, [...]
Full disclosure – I didn’t read this book, I listened to it via an audiobook that I bought on iTunes. Actually I haven’t listened to ALL of it because it can get really dry in some places (after about an hour) but can I please write a review anyway? Thanks.
So, car manufacturing. How do you [...]
What effect will the ageing population have on the nature of the corporation? In what ways can management source, cultivate and retain knowledge workers? Who are knowledge workers anyway?
In a collection of short essays Peter Drucker tries to answer these and many other questions, in what I found to be a very interesting book. What [...]
We all love our inbox but what do you do when there is just too much mail to go through and you want to just “Mark as read” all of them? In Gmail you a can find all that unread mail in just two steps.
1. Click on search options
2. Select unread mail in the drop [...]