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 […]
♟ 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 […]
🦢 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? […]