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 […]
👩💼 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 […]
♟ 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 […]
🌏 How Does Culture Influence Behaviour?
How does culture influence behaviour? It was the summer of 2012, and I was on a two-week English campus in Dublin. My class was composed of 4 Italian guys like 5 Russian friends, and me. One day, the teacher asked if we would report one of our parents to the authority if they committed a homicide. To my surprise, the […]
📒 4 Product Management Books You Should Read
Why read four books about product management? I believe that Product Management is becoming the alphabet of the upcoming days: nowadays, the entire economy is shifting through digital products and platforms services. According to Investopedia and uxcam, the top 6 companies listed on the S&P 500 index are digital products(Microsoft, Amazon, Google, et cetera). A fully optimized product manager could increase company profits by 34.2%. […]
🦢 The Black Swan: Was It Possible to Forsee Covid Pandemic? Copy
The Black Swan Theory Could the covid 19 pandemic be forseen? Were we blind in not preparing enough for what happened in 2020? The Black Swan Theory could help us understand it. It’s been a while since the last time I read a book that proposed “revolutionary” ways of thinking like “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable“. […]
🦢 The Black Swan: Was It Possible to Forsee Covid Pandemic?
The Black Swan Theory Could the covid 19 pandemic be forseen? Were we blind in not preparing enough for what happened in 2020? The Black Swan Theory could help us understand it. It’s been a while since the last time I read a book that proposed “revolutionary” ways of thinking like “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable“. […]
🕹 GameStop: the Quiet after the Stock Storm
It’s been almost a year since the Gamestop stock case. For those who wonder what it is, in January 2020, Reddit Community WallStreetBets orchestrated a significant cumulative buy of GameStop stocks. The volume of stocks increased tenfold, the price adjusted, growing 1822% (taking as reference the interval 7th – 27th of January). How is GameStop after that? Was it a market joke? […]
👨🏫 How to Pitch Your Startup Effectively
Admit it: in the last year, you have thought, “I have a startup idea that will make me a millionaire“. Another classic statement is: “yes, I believe I can create the new Facebook for pets”, or “the new Airbnb for camping”, or the “Youporn for food”. It’s easy to create “the new insert a famous platform for random product”. What you may miss, is […]