https://jonathanmckay.com/tags/business/Recent content in Business on Jonathan McKayHugoen-usSat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-lexus-and-the-olive-tree/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-lexus-and-the-olive-tree/I thought that this book would be a good piece of airplane reading- interesting anecdotes describing one of the most important phenomona of the worldhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-ruthless-elimination-of-hurry/Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-ruthless-elimination-of-hurry/What a phrase! But upon purchasing the book i realize it's awfully short. Then i discover the title's provenance: not the author. The writing style ishttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/ubik/Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/ubik/Decohere Ubik—the only book that reads you as you read it. Side effects include narrative dissonance and ontological vertigo. Do books need to make sensehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/leading-change/Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/leading-change/Some good advice interspersed into the most mind-numbing mid 90s business prose possible.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/moneyball/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/moneyball/Barbarous Statistics I don't follow baseball, but I can't escape statistics. Whether making hiring decisions, investment calls, or building experimentalhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-complete-guide-to-buying-and-selling-apartment-buildings/Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-complete-guide-to-buying-and-selling-apartment-buildings/35th book of 2021: Incomplete, Incorrect There are many poorly written books on real estate; this is one. The amount of content that relates to motivationhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/primal-leadership-realizing-the-power-of-emotional-intelligence/Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/primal-leadership-realizing-the-power-of-emotional-intelligence/Primal leadership is the application of emotional intelligence to leadership. According to Goleman, one of the most important jobs of a leader is tohttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/how-to-buy-run-your-own-hotel/Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/how-to-buy-run-your-own-hotel/45th book of 2020: A mix of obvious and bad advice. The author ran a hotel for 18 months and then wrote a book. With precious few numbers and astoundinglyhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/high-output-management/Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/high-output-management/39th book of 2020: Silicon Valley’s Plato Among the many 'management and tech' books I've tackled, only Grove offers a definition of his subject: “Thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-canticle-for-leibowitz-st.-leibowitz-%231/Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-canticle-for-leibowitz-st.-leibowitz-%231/A Canticle for Leibowitz follows the arc of a post-apocalypse humanity, through three story arcs: 1. Through the discovery of key artifacts during the newhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-4-hour-workweek/Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-4-hour-workweek/This felt like 'the Game' for entrepreneurs. I do run a company spending ~4h a week, and I don't think I've read so much bad advice in a single bookhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/thinking-fast-and-slow/Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/thinking-fast-and-slow/How did I not read this book earlier? A rare book that avoids the trap of explaining too much and predicting too little. The foundation of other goodhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/happy-city-transforming-our-lives-through-urban-design/Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/happy-city-transforming-our-lives-through-urban-design/The thesis of this book is that cities should be designed around pedestrians and more livable spaces rather than cars and commutes, and that this sort ofhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/remote-office-not-required/Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/remote-office-not-required/Read this book to help run teams that are split across London and California. instead of any analysis for how to make remote work effective, I gothttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-lean-startup/Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-lean-startup/Neither about startups nor about being lean. This book should be titled 'The Effective Organization'. Lots of really good insights in here, greathttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/work-rules-insights-from-inside-google-that-will-transform-how-you-live-and-lead/Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/work-rules-insights-from-inside-google-that-will-transform-how-you-live-and-lead/I didn't expect this to be a book about HR (people ops), but I still found it to be enlightening. Working at Facebook, it's interesting to see how much ofhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/how-to-get-filthy-rich-in-rising-asia/Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/how-to-get-filthy-rich-in-rising-asia/A dishonest book in every way, but not bad.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-housing-boom-and-bust/Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-housing-boom-and-bust/Have you ever talked with a stranger about relationships? Sometimes a normal conversation turns into a diatribe about the stranger's recent divorce andhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/decoding-the-new-consumer-mind-how-and-why-we-shop-and-buy/Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/decoding-the-new-consumer-mind-how-and-why-we-shop-and-buy/Lots of hand waving and overuse of the word 'increasingly'. The facts are scattershot trivia, nothing unified or edifying here. I'm out.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/who-owns-the-future/Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/who-owns-the-future/The best book I've read so far about society-level changes that are happening due to internet technology. That would be higher praise if I had read morehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/neuromancer-sprawl-%231/Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/neuromancer-sprawl-%231/Throughout Neuromancer, I found it difficult not to be reminded of Snow Crash. It is clear that Neuromancer influenced Snow Crash- and I together they