Tag: book review

Ideas, Misc, Personal Growth

Book Review – Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Perez

Overview: I bought this book on Audible after listening to the author talk to Roman Mars on his podcast – 99% Invisible) and listened to the audio book, which the author has read herself. The book is primarily about three things: Design Data and Women The entire book is about how designers have ignored the role that gender plays in designing their products or services and how by not collecting data about how the design interacts with half the world’s population, we are blind-sighted of the huge implications of ignoring this demographic from our design research. Ease of reading: The […]

Ideas

Book Review: 15 Minute Pause: A Radical Reboot for Busy People by Michelle Burke, Lilamani de Silva

Overview: — I got this book as an advance review copy. Michelle and Lilamani have done a great job in writing this as a workbook.. Ease of reading: — The book is written in a very simple to read language. As this is written in the format of a workbook, this is best read over a long period of time, doing the exercises that they suggest, reflect on the questions that they pose and trying out some of the ideas that they suggest. So, this book will not be effective or useful, if you just read through the book. What […]

Strategy

Book Review – Seeing Around Corners by Rita McGrath

Overview: — I got this book as an advance review copy. Rita McGrath has produced another stunning book, in a way even better than her earlier book “The End of Competitive advantage”. You can pre-order the book here. Ease of reading: — The book is not only easy to read. The stories and the insights from the stories follow one after the other. The stories keep the reader interested and the insights from the stories allows us to learn from these stories. What I loved about the book: We are living in a world where there are inflection points coming […]

Innovation

Book Review – Three Box Solution

Name of the book: The Three Box Solution: A Simple Framework for                    leading  innovation Author of the book: Vijay Govindarajan Publisher: HBR Press Overall Rating: 4/5 Implementability of ideas: 4/5 This is a book about how to lead innovation in an organisation. The framework that Vijay suggests is simple to learn and keep in mind. As he rightly says in his book, easy to remember doesn’t mean easy to implement. Leading innovation isn’t easy either. However, the simplicity of the framework is a big plus. No need to remember complicated stuff. […]