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Couldn’t put it down, didn’t want it to end, ever

Revisado: 03-16-22

Top performance recording by Will Smith, gripping storyline, inspiring personal story. Not to mention candid vulnerability of some tough moments, full of humor and suspense.
It’s definitely one of the best inspirational book I have ever read or listened to.

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25 years old and still groundbreaking

Revisado: 12-15-21

The SECI model, middle-up-down and the hypertext org structure model are as fresh as they were when the book was introduced. Together with The Wise Company book and The Wise Leader paper, the book provides indispensable knowledge on how to shape an organization for knowledge creation and agility.

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An insightful fable about running a tech business

Revisado: 09-14-21

The ideas behind the decision maker process are excellent.
Being a fable, the book is lacking the theoretical ideas behind the process. The story is also a little naïve to reflect real life situations.
The flow of dialogues is, at times, awkward. And there are too many irrelevant data to my liking, such as the appearance of persons and such.
The reading has many pauses. It worked for me when I upped the speed to 1.8 to get a better sense of the flow of the story.

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Someone might believe this advice is good

Revisado: 08-12-21

Although there is ample useful practical advice, overall this book is modeled for a 20th century company, and an ill advice for the uncertain, complex and ambiguous reality of the 21th century.
The metaphor of a “well oiled machine” assumes a one size fits all concept. This may be good for a “franchising” domain. But unfit for a research and development nor for a highly fluctuate environment.
The EOS, entrepreneur operating system, resembles an agile even Scrum framework from the mechanistic view, and lacking all the humane and adaptive concepts.
This is one book I would recommend 21st century entrepreneur *not* to read. Or at least to read as a warning from ill advice.

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A must read for any (and all) HR professional

Revisado: 08-09-21

This book is a living proof that the lean and agile way is so totally viable.
This time from the people leadership perspective. With many practical tips, stories from Netflix and others, the book goes through the dos and a few prominent don’ts in people practices - leading, connecting to the business, hiring & firing and loads more.
Patty’s reading is brilliant but there are a few glitches in editing.

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Good book for those who cannot yet envision an accelerating organization

Revisado: 09-19-20

I am having afterthoughts on my original review of the book, and finding that I overrated the book based on my appreciation for J.P. Kotter to understanding organizational culture. This book, however, does not match up to my expectations.
There are numerous better books to understanding the characteristics and the underlying principles of agile and fast paces organizations. Unlike many such books, this one gives little credit to other resources, which is a shame.
The word 'agile' is mentioned many times in the book, but I feel that at the time of writing the author did not fully embrace the meaning of the word in the organizational context. This makes this book relevant for managers and leaders who have not yet crossed the chasm to realize the criticality of embracing an agile mindset.
Original review:
This book is great for senior managers in organizations that embrace the hierarchical model, and want a better way to increase their agility and accelerate their results. The audio narration was not to my liking. At speed of 1.6 it was ok.

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A comprehensive tour to being a tech product manager

Revisado: 09-15-20

Tech products are complex beasts invented by humans. They require an operating system that can react quickly and nimbly and yet remain focused on a strategic vision.
As such, a product manager (or product owner in an agile development setting) is one of the hardest and most important roles to succeed as a product led organization.
This book provides a comprehensive guided tour for the PM role, from understanding what is a product led organization, how to enable product teams turn a product vision and strategy into viable options, through how to shape a product led organization in a structure set up for success. By structure I mean not only org structure but also roles, artifacts, flow and emergence of knowledge and more.
The book, imho, falls short on two aspects:
- the linkage between organizational agility and a product led organization. There are some examples of how poor agile practices hinder a mindset of a product led organization. But not how real agility is key to turning concept to cash quickly and effectively.
- the description of required meetings and procedures in the third part feels over prescriptive. Maybe Perri meant them as an example. I understood them as how it should work.
To me it feels that the excellent explanations and examples for utilizing experimentation in the product management concepts are missing on these aspects of a product led organization.
That being said, the book gets an easy 5 star rating from me as one of the best books on PM I have read/listened to.

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Finally a well-conducted research on agile culture

Revisado: 09-09-20

This is book written by 3 highly prominent agile thought leaders, based on their extensive research into 1000s of companies and practitioners of agile in general and devops in particular.
The results are clear and unequivocal: intentional practice of agile engineering practices leads to increased agility, better employee experience and better business results.
A book for ceos and cxos in tech organizations to help them focus on the right things for business success.

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The best pitching resource I have encountered

Revisado: 12-22-19

Unlike many of the sales resources I read or listened to, which are kind-of fake it ‘till you fake it approach, this book takes an entirely different approach.
Beginning with understanding the underlying workings of the human brain, Oren Klaff takes the reader through a journey to discover one’s own inner resources to learn how to pitch one’s ideas.
As such, there is no hint of faking your pitch. Instead, the book guides the reader through avoiding beta-traps (and gaining an alpha position), and then framing situations to succeed in your sales pitch.
Do not skip the last chapters of the case study and epilogue. These are priceless in understanding how to make your learning actionable - even if you will never encounter similar opportunities as in the case study description.
This book get a wholeheartedly 5/5 from me.

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Practical, holistic and useful

Revisado: 11-19-19

The book goes through a great combination between theory, mindset and practice.
The examples were, to me, resonating with my own personal and professional life.
I think that the book can be made shorter.
Also, more examples of professional (office, work) life would be helpful.
Overall, a fantastic gift to someone new to practicing listening. To be taken in small dosages and plenty of practice.

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