At the start of the year, in preparing for a part-time MBA, I absorbed as many leadership, strategy and management books as palatable – not bad for one’s general reading but certainly enabling a head start. This included revisiting Peter Thiel’s Zero to One but also exploring the less well-known Parag Khanna’s The Future is Asian, and William Thorndike’s even less known but excellent The Outsiders – a book on unorthodox CEOs that good friend Jordan Shopov kindly gifted me. Indeed, The Outsiders was fascinating. In an era when we singularly lionise CEOs like Warren Buffett and other charismatic celebrity-types, […]
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