The Mafia Manager: A Guide to the Corporate Machiavelli by V.

My absolute favorite read for corporate relationships. Obviously, the book is a good fun and engaging to read however you need to filter the information via lenses of your own experience and situation. I have read this book several times and it really seems to me now that corporate world is based on the same principles of mafia ladder due to a lot of corporate politics involved is big corporations. Not being a fan of them it looks difficult to navigate and succeed in the world of corporate mafia. Anyways, fun #book to read!

“Flip the Script” by Oren Klaff

A #book a day keeps boring thoughts away! This is another fantastic #bookstoread on #negotiations and #sales. First of all, easy to read through the stories and examples; secondly, it is very engaging as if you were having a coffee with Oren Klaff and having a discussion.

Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (Without Money or Muscle) by Deepak Malhotra

I generally liked the book. In this book you can find three essential strategic instruments for negotiation: framing, process management and empathy. There are a lot of good examples on how to use the tools.

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal 

Absolutely great #book on creating product value for your customers, making sure the customers stick in the long run. There are plenty of examples on how to do this and how other companies have done it. Obviously, repeating success of others doesn’t guarantee your own success but the ideas in the book are definitely worth twisting and applying to your own product and business. Definitely recommended for entrepreneurs and product managers alike (there is always way to improve!)

How Women Lead: The 8 Essential Strategies Successful Women Know by Sharon Hadary, Laura Henderson

Definitely worth reading! For young leaders and executives this is a key for behaviors that will lead to success in professional career. Some aspects seem to be obvious and may be not important in your opinion but they tend to have huge influence on executive career. I liked the examples of other women executives and their stories because there is a lot to learn and apply to your own path.

The Concise Mastery by Robert Greene 

That’s a book to read in the area of developing creativity, growth mindset and becoming a master at the skills you have inside you. The stories walk you through examples if Darwin, Da Vinci, Faraday and others to show how they grew inner self to strive at the best of your abilities. Nice and smooth path in discovering inner creativity and mastering skills.

One Great Speech: Secrets, Stories, and Perks of the Paid Speaking Industry (and How You Can Break In) by James Marshall Reilly

This is a great book that every professional speaker or professional speaker to be should read. It shows the backstage of speakers agencies work which sometimes can be not 100% clear when you enter speaking industry as a front stage occupant. Lots a good tips on how to become a speaker (make sure you have not fear of public speaking when you make this decision), how to work on your profile, bio, speeches, topics, finding you target speaking niche, working with agency, etc. All you need to know in one book!

HBR Guide to Office Politics (HBR Guide Series) by Karen Dillon

Are we still facing office politics while working from home? We always will because we have colleagues! Ironically office politics has nothing to do with an office environment or working within a corporation, it is enough to have projects, work and interact with other professionals! Fantastic book to read from Harvard Business Review in HBRGuideto series. My separate appreciation goes to the author Karen Dillon !! My video review link.

The Three-Box Solution Playbook: Tools and Tactics for Creating Your Company’s Strategy by Vijay Govindarajan, Manish Tangri

How are you planning and executing your company’s strategy? What frameworks or strategy playbooks do you use? Getting 3 areas of focus approach is extremely useful:

1. execute the present core business at peak efficiency
2. avoid the inhibiting traps of past success
3. build the future through innovations.

This playbooks is also a workbook where you can read and work on your own business straight away. Link to my video review.

No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: The Heavy and Loaded Weapons That Destroy Poverty. Hold Them in your Hands and Squeeze the Trigger. Negotiate or Die. by Eloy Rodrigo Colombo

Did you know that there are four laws of economy that influence our lives as well as everything around us?

Law 1: To be rare your product/service needs to be useful, scarce and able to be owned

Law 2: Something that is rare has its worth in relation to other things

Law 3: Profit is the increase in satisfaction of desires and pleasure reached in an economic exchange

Law 4: Each person defines the profits he wants individually.

I found the book absolutely brilliant as it made me think on how the rules can be applied to what I do professionally. The book is very educational for those who are not involved in economic matters professionally. Many thanks to the author!

The Accidental Business Nomad: A Survival Guide for Working Across a Shrinking Planet by Kyle Hegarty

Truly fantastic book on practical experience in building international teams with the focus on Asia. I have enjoyed reading. Building a team is a tough task from my own experience. Building a team that consists of members from different cultures is twice more complicated (especially if they are remote!) I have learnt how to leverage cultural differences, how to build teams and profile candidates for the job, how to learn about oneself and adopt to different reality. Being an expat myself, I have learned all this a tough way and this book shows that all of us are going through transformation. The world is going to globalization and even without leaving your own country you will have to adapt global mindset.

“What’s Your Problem” by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg

Sharing today a fantastic took with a comprehensive toolkit on #reframing Have you thought of solving problems differently? The book from Harvard Business Review by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg called “What’s Your Problem” is the best guide to creative problem solving! Here is what I have learned:

1. Looking at problems at different angel than obvious helps.
2. Use team brain power to facilitate thinking.
3. Get tools and framework to empower creative thinking.

The Path to Revenue: Secrets of Successful Tech Leaders by Theresa Marcroft

The book is simply brilliant with its narration style and content. I have learned a lot about marketing and sales marriage, customer-centric approach in every step of business journey. All the information is well-illustrated by multiple examples and helps to deep dive in various business situations.

Project Future by Rob Kerr

If you are looking to start a business and need a plan which is well structured, here it is. That is a real project plan with a step by step implementation from the stage of ideation to the stage of execution. I haven’t seen such a detailed guide before and, having the experience of all the described stages, can definitely confirm that the book is very useful!