Ben Casnocha

Good ideas in this book, but somewhat weakened by the inability for anyone in middle/lower management to enact the good ideas presented.

If I was starting a company or worked in a small company that was open to changing how people are treated/managed, I'd highly recommend this book.

Working at a large company where the policies are already in place and change is not likely, this book may prove to be more frustrating than helpful. Not that the ideas can't scale, it is just too many people are entrenched in the status quo and won't consider making some of the changes recommended in the book.… (more)

(note: this was among my to-be-reviewed books that ended up in the hands of the wrong people when moving 4/1/18 - see https://btripp-books.livejournal.com/206862.html for details - I did brief reviews of these lost books on recall)
(finished 02/16/18)
OK, I have no memory of reading this book. I just bought it off of Amazon last fall, and evidently read it in the chaos of the early months of this year, but the more I dug into other reviews of it, the less I could place it. How odd. The author has recently been in the news for having funded some really sleazy election shenanigans. Currently, that's the most focused thing I can say about it. Some of the other reviews mention it was about running your career like a start-up, but I guess one might have been able to get that from the title.… (more)