The Mckinsey Way: Using The Techniques Of The World's Top Strategic Consultants To Help You and Your Business >> Book review and free preview

Rating

Green

Genre

Non-Fiction, Business, Management Consulting, Company Profile

Publisher

McGraw Hill Professional

The Book

The book is written by a former McKinsey consultant, who attempts to document the learnings from his period at 'The Firm' to share it with the world. He shares the way McKinsey works (as the name suggests) covering:

The way McKinsey thinks about business problems
The way McKinsey works to solve business problems
The way McKinsey sells solutions

After this he moves on to discussing how to survive at McKinsey and what the life after McKinsey is like.

Comments

The book is short (less than 200 pages) and easy to read (well-structured and simple English). If you are part of the corporate world or are planning to join it some day - you'll find this book very useful (irrespective of industry preference).

Gets a Green for a super-high insights/pages ratio!

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation By Lynne Truss >> Book review and Free preview

- September 14, 2017

Rating Green

Genre Language, English, Grammar

Publisher Fourth Estate
The Book The book, as the subtitle suggests, is about the nuances of punctuation. What differentiates it from the average grammar book though is that it is not one - it does not cover grammar comprehensively, it focuses on the finer nuances of using punctuation marks that are typically missed/or get lost somewhere in all the content in the grammar books, and it is full of (attempted) humour.

The punctuation marks it focuses on include the Apostrophe, the Period, the Comma, the Colon and the Semi-Colon, the Brackets, the Dash, the Hyphen. And, a few others in guest appearances.

Comments This book is written for an average English-speaking person - the author has written in colloquial conversational English, not boring technical language. I see it as no more than an extended chapter on punctuation. However, a very useful one at that.

If you've been confused by the finer nuances of sentence construction involving the u…

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