Category Archives: Books

The lean startup – book notes

The lean startup by Eric Ries is a very interesting book about creating a successful business. It’s really a great read even if you are not working in a startup. Actually most large company moved away from previous development processes that didn’t adapt well to the new technologies. In today world, we ship software daily, sometimes… Read More »

How to lie with statistics

Just before the thanksgiving break, I attended to a book club event (internal to Bing) and Scott Berkun advised to read the book “How to lie with statistics”. I decided to use the thanksgiving break time to read it. Written by Darrell Huff in 1954, the book was extremely refreshing (the tone used in the… Read More »

Career superpowers – book summary

I loved this book, career superpowers: succeeding on purpose by James Whittaker. It is refreshing to strategically think about your career and to feel in control. The author breaks down the career superpowers in 8 attributes: ambition, passion, specialization, storytelling, imitation, derivation, creativity, and leadership. Ambition Ambition sets the bar for you career, you increase… Read More »

The first 90 days: Promoting yourself!

I am starting a new series of posts pulled out of a book I recently read. The book was written by Michael Watkins and titled “The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels “. The book is about enabling transitioning leader to reach the breakeven point (when leader contributed as… Read More »

How to make things happen – some tactics

This post is the last one of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, not to annoy people, specification, how to improve your communication and about the middle game strategy… Read More »

Middle game strategy – handling your project on the right direction

This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, not to annoy people, specification and how to improve your communication. The middle game strategy refer to… Read More »

Composition of a specification

This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, and about not to annoy people. Today’s diagram is about the composition of a specification. A specification… Read More »

How not to annoy people: emails, processes, and meetings

This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, and about schedules. I believe all point are pretty straight forward to understand on this topic. My key… Read More »