Maria Konnikova’s “The Biggest Bluff” is one of those books that screamed at me to be read. In the blogosphere, Twitter and LinkedIn… big capital letters: READ ME. I obeyed. During the next book shopping spree, I did not hesitate to put it in my shopping basket. A book about…
Preface to this blog post Why review a book from the hand of a notorious terrorist who killed three and maimed dozens of people? That seems like the right question to answer before continuing this blog post. Theodore J. Kaczynski is an extremely intelligent yet wounded man. He’s been a…
In his book “A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics”, psychologist Daniel Levitin elaborates on some commonly made mistakes when it comes to interpreting data. Although a lot of the topics are closely related to the chapters from the best-selling 1960’s booklet “How to lies with Statistics” by Darrell Huff,…
‘Outnumbered‘ is a book that I have been expecting for the past couple of years. Its premise: this whole algorithm, data science and AI revolution that people talk about on cocktail parties seems amazing and overwhelming, but under the hood it is rather ‘meh’. The author, David Sumpter, is a…
Another management book? Not just a management book, but the story of Satya Nadella. Who? The son of a marxist economist and a drama professor but mostly known as Microsoft’s less famous, less rich, but current CEO. A brief review. Nadella’s book ‘Hit Refresh’ is a triptych. The first part…
Years ago, I worked a short while for a very dysfunctional organization. I was young and in the labor market for less than two years. In less than three months, the key performance indicators (KPIs) to which my performance would be judged grew from zero to over twenty-five. With no…
To many, including myself, the amount of hot air that is circulating in marketing books is of unbearable proportion. Buzzword bingo and infinite repetition of the same arguments makes us wonder who reads these books. But more importantly, who writes these books and with what purpose? Marketers write marketing books…
Enkele weken geleden was ik op een uiteenzetting door Google voor de retail-sector. Ik ben altijd sceptisch als het over zo’n conferenties gaat, maar toegegeven, ik was aangenaam verrast. Als kers op de taart kreeg elke aanwezige ‘Digitalis’ mee naar huis, het boek van de hand van Thierry Geerts, CEO…