Review of Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust
By Wally Bock In case you haven’t noticed, traditional forms of leadership and organization are increasingly ineffective. They’re increasingly…
Review of John List’s the voltage effect
By Allison Schrager John List’s “The Voltage Effect” is marketed as a generic business title on how and whether…
Review of Jocko Willink’s Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual
If you’re not familiar with Jocko, he’s a former Navy SEAL, a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt and now a…
Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if your life depended on it
Negotiation is an often undervalued skill for product managers. Whether we want to get budget to go after a specific…
The Vision-Driven Leader
The Vision-Driven Leader is an excellent book. I read it out of duty because it was read in my mastermind.…
Review of Patrick M. Lencioni’s The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities
Executive is a noun and executing is a verb. ‘Executing’ conveys activity. The leader must be involved in executing rather…
Patriarchy, Shades of love and the depth of words: All shades of beauty in Tolu Akinyemi’s ‘God in a human body’
Title: A god in a Human Body Genre: Poetry (a collection) Author: Tolu’ A. Akinyemi Publisher: The Roaring Lion Newcastle…
Review of CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets that Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest by Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller & Vikram Malhotra
It is agreed that CEOs are the pivot of any organisation and often their names are associated with the success…
Creating Great Choices
As an avid reader, anytime a book can provide a paradigm shift in thinking, it becomes an instant resource on…
Review of Roger Martin’s A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness
A good book can change someone’s mind. The right book at the right time can change someone’s life. That is…
Review of Richard Rumelt’s The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
Michael Porter wrote in his article ‘What is Strategy’ that operational effectiveness is not strategy. He then laid out three…
Review of Daymond John’s Rise and Grind
If I had to use one word to describe this book, it would be this: awesome. When you flip through…
Inside the secret letters of Obasanjo
(A review of Musikilu Mojeed’s ‘The Letterman’ by Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah). Opening this book, you will notice a fallacy…
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, by Adrian Wooldridge
The great virtue of The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, by longtime Economist editor and writer…
Alaperu: The throne, and the glory
A review of the book, Alaperu: The throne, and the glory, in honour of one of the most celebrated Obas…
Review of Unapologetically Ambitious
In his powerful book The Fred Factor, motivational speaker Mark Sanborn recounts the true story of Fred, the mail carrier…
Review of Unapologetically Ambitious
Every business book is a behind the scenes story in some way. With CEOs, they share the story of their…
Multipliers: How the best leaders make everyone smarter
If you want to become a better leader, says Liz Wiseman, you first have to discover whether you’re a “Multiplier”…
Review of Steven Silbiger’s The Jewish Phenomenon
Perhaps it was my upbringing in the American Bible Belt, but I’ve always had a fascination with Jewish culture. It…
Review of Julie Zhuo’s The Making of a Manager
Do you remember what it felt like to be a new manager? For some of you, this was 30 years…
