Summary of Go Woke, Go Broke
The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America
Written by Charles Gasparino. Published by Center Street in August 2024
The noxious ideology of progressive politics in the boardroom, aka corporate wokeness, needs to stop. This mad trend ignores risk management and is damaging to businesses, the economy, and American culture. It started with CEOs taking mild political stands and evolved to a full embrace of far-left causes. The annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland stimilated social and environmental initiatives to ...
Written by Charles Gasparino. Published by Center Street in August 2024
The noxious ideology of progressive politics in the boardroom, aka corporate wokeness, needs to stop. This mad trend ignores risk management and is damaging to businesses, the economy, and American culture. It started with CEOs taking mild political stands and evolved to a full embrace of far-left causes. The annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland stimilated social and environmental initiatives to ...
Summary of Day Trading Attention
How to Actually Build Brand and Sales in the New Social Media World
Written by Gary Vaynerchuk. Published by Harper Business in May of 2024
Mastering storytelling is vital for modern communication. This skill combines creative narratives with strategic approaches to engage audiences effectively. Concentrating on underpriced attention channels is the most effective. Decennia ago they were newspapers, then radio, TV, and currently it's mainly social media and other modern advertising on emerging platforms. By honing this ability, you can ...
Written by Gary Vaynerchuk. Published by Harper Business in May of 2024
Mastering storytelling is vital for modern communication. This skill combines creative narratives with strategic approaches to engage audiences effectively. Concentrating on underpriced attention channels is the most effective. Decennia ago they were newspapers, then radio, TV, and currently it's mainly social media and other modern advertising on emerging platforms. By honing this ability, you can ...
Summary of Co-Intelligence
Living and Working with AI
Written by Ethan Mollick. Published by Ebury in April of 2024.
The emergence of Large Language Models marks a significant leap forward in AI. LLMs are trained on massive datasets of text from the internet, books, articles, and other sources. This "pretraining" allows them to learn patterns and structures of human language. Fine-tuning with human feedback further refines their responses. The latest LLMs like GPT-4 have demonstrated extraordinary capabilities, outperforming humans on a variety ...
Written by Ethan Mollick. Published by Ebury in April of 2024.
The emergence of Large Language Models marks a significant leap forward in AI. LLMs are trained on massive datasets of text from the internet, books, articles, and other sources. This "pretraining" allows them to learn patterns and structures of human language. Fine-tuning with human feedback further refines their responses. The latest LLMs like GPT-4 have demonstrated extraordinary capabilities, outperforming humans on a variety ...
Summary of The VC Field Guide
Fundamentals of Venture Capital Written by William Lin. Published by Wiley in 2024 The author is an experienced VC who used the well known Three Ts with its 3 key factors: Team, Total Addressable Market (TAM), and sometimes Technology or Timing. However, the author felt this was insufficient. He found that investing into innovative industries lacked success metrics. With help from his colleages he developed "The Venture Capital Investment Framework" (VCIF). It's built on the following six crucial components to evaluate ...
Summary of Buy Then Build
How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game Written by Walker Deibel
Imagine navigating the business landscape without the arduous journey of a traditional startup. Forget years of bootstrapping, the anxieties of fundraising, and the uncertainty of product-market fit. Acquisition entrepreneurship offers a strategic alternative, allowing you to acquire an existing business with established infrastructure, revenue streams, and a customer base. You inherit a customer base, a track record, and a team potentially ready to embrace your vision. It's ...
Imagine navigating the business landscape without the arduous journey of a traditional startup. Forget years of bootstrapping, the anxieties of fundraising, and the uncertainty of product-market fit. Acquisition entrepreneurship offers a strategic alternative, allowing you to acquire an existing business with established infrastructure, revenue streams, and a customer base. You inherit a customer base, a track record, and a team potentially ready to embrace your vision. It's ...
Summary of AI for Finance
This book is part of the AI for Everything Series
Written by Edward P.K. Tsang
The synergy between AI and finance will bring lots of opportunities In algorithmic trading market speed is crucial for taking advantage of obvious opportunities. However, investing in faster computers and networks is costly and leads to intense competition. A more effective approach is to focus on researching and discovering opportunities before competitors. The competition lies in the speed of seeking opportunities rather than the speed ...
Written by Edward P.K. Tsang
The synergy between AI and finance will bring lots of opportunities In algorithmic trading market speed is crucial for taking advantage of obvious opportunities. However, investing in faster computers and networks is costly and leads to intense competition. A more effective approach is to focus on researching and discovering opportunities before competitors. The competition lies in the speed of seeking opportunities rather than the speed ...
Summary of Paradoxical Leadership
How To Make Complexity An Advantage
Written by Ivo Brughmans
Vinyl records are still being bought a lot by youngsters, while streaming music online is so much easier. This is an example of a paradox. The world is increasingly complex and paradoxical. Organizations face contradictory demands. Linear thinking struggles with that. Leaders need nonlinear, multidimensional thinking to leverage complexity. Complexity science studies emergent order in complex adaptive systems. It also studies organizations facing dynamic complexity and rapid change and how ...
Written by Ivo Brughmans
Vinyl records are still being bought a lot by youngsters, while streaming music online is so much easier. This is an example of a paradox. The world is increasingly complex and paradoxical. Organizations face contradictory demands. Linear thinking struggles with that. Leaders need nonlinear, multidimensional thinking to leverage complexity. Complexity science studies emergent order in complex adaptive systems. It also studies organizations facing dynamic complexity and rapid change and how ...
Summary of Reputation in Business
Lessons for Leaders
Written by Stuart Thomson
Reputation should be considered a key business risk that requires proactive management. Attacks on your organization’s reputation can come from anywhere and have significant impacts if not handled well. This book analyzes case studies and provides recommendations for building resilience. Boards, trustees, non-executive directors, senior management, and leaders of all types of organisations need to consider the steps that should be taken to build, maintain and defend their reputation, and that means knowing ...
Written by Stuart Thomson
Reputation should be considered a key business risk that requires proactive management. Attacks on your organization’s reputation can come from anywhere and have significant impacts if not handled well. This book analyzes case studies and provides recommendations for building resilience. Boards, trustees, non-executive directors, senior management, and leaders of all types of organisations need to consider the steps that should be taken to build, maintain and defend their reputation, and that means knowing ...