Review: Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly

Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly by Bernadette Jiwa
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Old wine in a new bottle. The insights are not new, but they are so important that they have to be repeated over and over. Thought provoking read.

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Review: The Rollout: A Novel about Leadership and Building a Lean-Agile Enterprise with SAFe

The Rollout: A Novel about Leadership and Building a Lean-Agile Enterprise with SAFe by Alex Yakyma
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I picked up this book for professional reasons, and I am so glad that I did. I stumbled upon this boon while looking for some literature on Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise (SAFe). Written as a novel, the author does a good job of walking you through the challenges the organization in the story was facing. The story of the transformation, told through the protagonist's point view, is pretty straightforward to follow. It was quite easy to understand how why SAFe is needed, how it could potentially be implemented and the challenges one might run into during its assimilation into the organization. All in all, good read, and I am so happy I came across this book at the right time.

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Review: Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story

Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story by Mihir Dalal
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have been following Flipkart since 2008, since I first became a customer. In those days, what Flipkart achieved was nothing short of magical. Over the last 12 years, Flipkart has morphed into a behemoth worth billions of dollars, and is still has the highest market share of the Indian e-retail space. Big Billion Startup is a beautifully written un-putdownable tale of that journey. It almost reads like a plot of a movie that perhaps Hollywood might make about a world changing Silicon Valley startup. The book is meticulously researched and I strongly believe that the author has tried to present a balanced perspective. The book is not just the tale of Flipkart, but of the dawn of entrepreneurship of Internet companies in India.Netflix, please turn this into an awesome TV series!

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