Book review: Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
by iampeterbanjo on October 25, 2009
Oops, I did it again. This is not a book review in the purest sense of the written word. It is more of an audiobook review to be more exact. I had to read, I mean listen, to this book. (…)
Book review: Made in Japan by Akio Morita
by iampeterbanjo on October 25, 2009
You know, after reading this book I fell in love with Sony. It’s so hard to resist the human element of Sony’s history. From the humble beginnings in a devastated city after the second world war and the ambition Morita (…)
Book review: Samsung vs. Sony
by iampeterbanjo on October 25, 2009
The book begins with an open question, in 2002 the market capitalization of Samsung surpassed that of Sony, how did this happen? The author thoroughly explores the differences between these two companies – one a well respected icon in electronics (…)
Book review: Blown to Bits by by Philip Evans and Thomas S Wurster
by iampeterbanjo on October 25, 2009
My goodness I loved this book! I got this book from the library because it had such an intriguing opening and was so densely written: the authors didn’t waste time getting to the main points and they had a whole (…)
Book review: The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker
by iampeterbanjo on October 25, 2009
Full disclosure – I didn’t read this book, I listened to it via an audiobook that I bought on iTunes. Actually I haven’t listened to ALL of it because it can get really dry in some places (after about an (…)
Book review: Managing in the Next Society by Peter Drucker
by iampeterbanjo on October 25, 2009
What effect will the ageing population have on the nature of the corporation? In what ways can management source, cultivate and retain knowledge workers? Who are knowledge workers anyway? In a collection of short essays Peter Drucker tries to answer (…)
Quick tip: searching for unread mail in Gmail
by iampeterbanjo on October 17, 2009
We all love our inbox but what do you do when there is just too much mail to go through and you want to just “Mark as read” all of them? In Gmail you a can find all that unread (…)