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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
I thought the passage on his attempted turnaround of the New York Times was super interesting. The rest, I don't know.
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Galloway reviews "The Four" and discusses their secret sauce and challenges ahead. The most surprising, and interesting, part of the book, is in the last few chapters. Galloway provides very frank and specific ideas for succeeding in this digital world, dominated by The Four. Instead of this book being a disconnected analysis of these behemoths, it becomes a roadmap for navigating this new world. Also surprising is Galloway's writing: never boring, often irreverent and very funny.
i had a REALLY hard time finishing this book. the author’s THE WORST (shallow, superficial, condescending, unfocused, redundant, etc) .. but 2 stars for the citations and some valuable insights.
Author confessed that he basically lost all his hair and his first marriage by choosing to become an entrepreneur in his twenties. Sounds like a good person to go to for advice
Good insight into some of the largest companies in the world. Might provoke some panic on how they work for some people. However it starts really good and dies into some not important stuff and author experience, not that relevant.
The book was all over the place. Hard to follow the author's thought process.
I started reading this after seeing some folks rave about it on Twitter but boy did it not live up to the hype even a bit! It is simply a rehash of everything known already about the four companies from various sources (right from Apple's retail strategy as told in [bc:Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success|13383957|Insanely Simple The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success|Ken Segall|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1329361021s/13383957.jpg|18614238] Ken Segall's Insanely Simple or Bezos' 1000 runs analogy from a famous blog post on innovation).
It was interesting to know some numbers from the book — the size of US retail market, for instance, but it's too much of an investment reading this book for too little. The title would imply that the author is going to give you some insight into the unique DNA of these companies. But for the liberal use of f-bombs and random advice to the executives — he asks Jeff Bezos to go and do something about social inequality (!), there's hardly anything worth reading in this book.
It was interesting to know some numbers from the book — the size of US retail market, for instance, but it's too much of an investment reading this book for too little. The title would imply that the author is going to give you some insight into the unique DNA of these companies. But for the liberal use of f-bombs and random advice to the executives — he asks Jeff Bezos to go and do something about social inequality (!), there's hardly anything worth reading in this book.