Why do some companies succeed and others don’t? After talking about product management and data bias books, with this article, we continue to explore relevant business books that can help us put in perspective organisations and markets. The star of today is Built to Last, which continues the cycle of research conducted by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras on why some companies succeed and others don’t. The other books […]
🧱 Build to Last: Why Visionary Companies Succeed
🍿 Netflix: What’s the Future?
Following the recent sad development in Ukraine, Netflix reportedly will be forced to broadcast Putin propaganda, as reported from the Politico website. Will it follow other services that stopped servicing Russia as a sign of protest, or will it stick to the new deal? With this premise, let’s continue the “company review” series that started with GameStop. An Overview For the ones who lived on […]
🎥 15 Youtube Channels to Get Inspiration in 2022
In the last year, I started to consume more and more videos from Youtube. I love them because they make many topics exciting and compelling to learn, thanks to their cinematic nature, so here are some channels to follow on YouTube. In the first place, it is true that social networks like Youtube overflow content: there are so many posts, articles and videos […]
👩💼 Why Generalists Will Beat Specialists in the Long Run
Has it ever happened to you to not manage to land your dream job because you did not fit perfectly the job description? Or maybe you had enough experience in that particular programming language? Or perhaps you did many things in the past, and your background sounded “too diversified”? It’s a familiar feeling, I guess. But don’t worry. In the […]
🕊 Using Customer Feedback for Product Innovation: the Nivea Case
Does a deodorant need any effort in product innovation? It’s almost a commodity. You have never noticed any difference among deodorants, haven’t you? Let’s try to challenge those assumptions. Background: Company Beiersdorf is a cosmetics company based in Hamburg, founded in 1882, with annual revenue of €7.5 billion and approximately 17 thousand staffed. Its most significant market is Europe, and its main […]
📚 Four Books about Data and Human Bias
Before suggesting four books about Data and Human Bias, let me ask you a simple question. What could oil and data have in common? They seem to belong to different worlds because an oil refinery sounds like an industrial cathedral. Usually, it is in the middle of the ocean, creating long shadows with its long towers. Despite that, the data […]
♟ How Life Imitates Chess, according to Garry Kasparov
How life imitates chess? Is a 64 squares game able to describe most of the situations we face every day? Garry Kasparov is arguably the strongest grandmaster of chess history. He was born in 1963 and kept several records: from 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for a record 255 months overall for his […]