Business – dr.Pep

Be a connector

Bob Burg anohn David Mann – The go-giver

Typical business allegory: not wrong, but quite cheesy

You better accept change, because it will happen anyhow

Spencer Johnson – Who moved my cheese?

Typical business allegory: not wrong, but quite cheesy

If, as a financial journalist, you want to bring down a fraudulent fintech startup, you need to be very, very careful

Dan McCrum – Money Men

The Netflix documentary is better, because it has less extensive digressions into the author’s personal life.

Various scandals illustrate the despicable role that big consultancies play in the global capitalist system, while they try to reap benefits of their worthless services by applying dubious marketing and sales tactics

Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington – The big con

The book paints a naive caricature of the consulting industry, downplays the role and responsibility of other actors and, unfortunately, lacks a realistic alternative for flexibly solving skill and capacity deficits (especially in the public sector); thereby undermining any justified concerns.

Classical strategy consulting ploys translate seamlessly to the language of IT architecture

Eben Hewitt – Technology Strategy Patterns

The ‘cookbook’ approach does a lot to demystify Strategy and Architecture, while the digressions into philosophy make the relatively basic content also palatable for the advanced reader.

To succeed in business: conform to reality, be cunning, but stick with whatever moral compass you have

Robert Ringer – Million dollar habits

Life advice packaged as ‘business zen’ but lacking elementary kindness towards others and ‘borrowing’ its title from the more well known Bryan Tracy book.