Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

If you have planned to read a book next week or next month, make it this one. At times, it makes you feel you are reading a fable but like most fables the message remains profound (if I may say so). The book focuses on six simple principals and discusses each of them at length. The six principals are:
1. Simplicity
2. Unexpectedness
3. Concreteness
4. Credibility
5. Emotions
6. Stories

The idea is well-worth reading and re-reading and re-reading...

Overall rating: 4.75 out of 5

Book info:
Title: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Author: Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 978-1400064281

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The future of management

I started reading this book with much higher expectations and I guess that was something which didn't help.

The book focuses on the idea of management innovation and using 3 case studies (Whole foods, Gore, and Google) describes how management practices need changing from the Weberian style to something unknown. The discussion is interesting however, the author (Gary Hamel) seems to go on repeating himself so many times that it becomes cumbersome. Must say that it's something good in a way that the message sticks but still at times I just lost interest in it. If you just read the case studies chapters the gist of the book is known.

Overall rating: 3.5 out of 5

Book info:
Title: The Future of Management
Author: Gary Hamel with Bill Breen
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
ISBN: 978-1422102503

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