Monthly Archives: July 2022
AN INTERESTING STORY FROM ETHIOPIA
When business, culture, politics, and psychology collide, the consequences are often disastrous. . Ethiopia builds a new railroad across the entire country. . To save money, they do NOT build a fence to protect the tracks from animals. . People are worried that their camels can be killed by the train. . The government says…
Parents don’t have/should not try to make their kids happy
Parents don’t have/should not try to make their kids happy. If you as a parent focus on keeping your kid always happy, the kid will not have a happy life.
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
The best business failure book since The Bad Blood. I love books about business failures – I think we can learn more from them than from books about success. I reviewed earlier “The Bad Blood” (the failure of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes), “Losing the Signal” (the failure of BlackBerry/Research In Motion”), “Faster, Higher, Farther” (the…