Category: Book Reviews
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“Thinking in Systems” (Book Review)
“Thinking in Systems” is a short but pretty dense book about systems thinking. Its author, the late Donella H. Meadows, was an environmental scientist who back in the Seventies started applying the then relatively new tools of system thinking to global problems. In “Thinking in Systems” Meadows covers the three aspects of any system in…
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“When They Win, You Win” (Book Review)
Russ Laraway is a military commander turned people leader, currently working as Chief People Officer at Goodwater Capital. I recently heard Laraway talk about his first book “When They Win, You Win” on Jason Knight’s great “One Knight in Product” podcast and it prompted me to read Laraway’s book. Laraway’s frustration with a lack of…
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“KPI Checklists” (Book Review)
How do you measure the performance of your business unit or product? How do you know that you’re measuring the right thing? How do the different metrics that you measure ladder up? These are just some of the questions that we need to grapple with to ensure that our efforts are making an impact, and…
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“The IPO Playbook” (Book Review)
Steve Cakebread is a CFO with a lot of experience in leading companies to Initial Public Offering (IPO). In his earlier career Cakebread worked at Autodesk, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard, after which he was involved in three successful IPOs, at Salesforce, Pandora and Yext respectively. In “The IPO Playbook” Cakebread shares his lessons learned and…
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“Obviously Awesome” (Book Review)
When I first came across the book “Obviously Awesome”, I was a bit sceptical; “not another book on positioning?!” and “how applicable will this book be?!” However, April Dunford, the author of “Obviously Awesome”, often shares great insights about the world of product marketing, and I was keen to read her thoughts about product positioning.…
