William A. Kindorf IV
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When McKinsey Comes to Town
- The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
- De: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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In When McKinsey Comes to Town, two prizewinning investigative journalists have written a portrait of the company sharply at odds with its public image. Bogdanich and Forsythe have penetrated the veil of secrecy surrounding McKinsey by conducting hundreds of interviews, obtaining tens of thousands of revelatory documents, and following rule #1 of investigative reporting: Follow the money. When McKinsey Comes to Town is a a devastating portrait of a firm whose work has often made the world more unequal, more corrupt, and more dangerous.
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Shows systemic problems in McKinsey's culture
- De GA en 10-15-22
- When McKinsey Comes to Town
- The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
- De: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
Interesting “exposé” on McKinsey written with a political stance
Revisado: 02-01-25
It is an interesting discussion on some of the more seedy activities of McKinsey. One of my main issues with management consulting in general is it often work backwards from a solution the management team wants or the consultant believes they want. This gives the guise of an independent expert opinion which shields the management team from doing their job which is managing the business and making the tough decisions. In many ways, this book is no different. You can’t help but feel like the authors started with the premise that “McKinsey is bad” and worked backwards from there. The authors have a clear political bias which clouds some of the points they make about unsavory clients or conflicts of interest. It comes off far more as a “hit piece” than an independent critique. Nonetheless, I found the story interesting and it is thought provoking about the role of management consulting.
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- De: Kara Swisher
- Narrado por: Kara Swisher
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. When tech titans crowed that they would “move fast and break things,” Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order.
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Let me save you 8 hours
- De Momx4 en 02-29-24
- Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- De: Kara Swisher
- Narrado por: Kara Swisher
A few interesting stories
Revisado: 04-06-24
I started this read with really no view on Swisher. I wasn’t all that familiar with her work other than being generally aware of her. The book starts with yet another cliched rant about Trump… he’s dangerous, dumb, racist, going to ruin democracy, etc. Thankfully she pivoted off that but she is clearly heavily influenced by her San Francisco politics which seems to jade a lot of her coverage. From that standpoint she’s really closer to Rachel Maddow than she is a true journalist. That said, I thought there were some interesting stories about the early days of tech and her experiences. She comes off as very smug throughout which is interesting given how much time she spends critiquing the arrogance of tech leaders. The bigger issue there is she seems to believe that her contributions to this tech ecosystem are on par with the leaders she covers. Don’t get it wrong, what she did was impressive. But splitting out to create your own content company is hardly on par with Jobs developing the IPhone, Musk sending rockets to Mars, Bezos building Amazon, etc. I started tuning out a bit when she described people as “evil”, “Satan”, “infantile”, “dangerous”… to name a few. It felt like lazy “journalism” closer to name calling than debating issues. And maybe that’s what this book is designed to be given the title. Either that or it helps gloss over some of the areas where she got it wrong over the years. Just reading this book alone makes her sound prescient about all things tech. All that said, I did find some interesting nuggets in here. I think that it could have been a lot more effective though if she put her politics and ego in the backseat because she ends up coming across as a combination of the smug tech leaders she criticizes and the all too common journalists that let their personal politics skew their coverage.
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Growing Things and Other Stories
- De: Paul Tremblay
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden, Graham Halstead, Cassandra Campbell, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national best seller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts. A masterful anthology featuring 19 pieces of short fiction, Growing Things and Other Stories is an exciting glimpse into Paul Tremblay’s fantastically fertile imagination.
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Paul Tremblay is totally nuts.
- De Gary & Jay en 07-07-19
“Horror” that actually made me think…
Revisado: 12-22-23
All of these stories are extremely well-written and really none of them were a let down for me. The ambiguity in many of them added to the eerie, cold feeling. You could tell Tremblay was experimenting a bit but he never lost me. It was effective. All of these stories were unique and interesting.
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Punk Paradox
- A Memoir
- De: Greg Graffin
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Greg Graffin
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as “America's most significant punk band.” Since its inception in Los Angeles in 1980, Bad Religion has produced 18 studio albums, become a long-running global touring powerhouse, and has established a durable legacy as one of the most influential punk rock bands of all time. Punk Paradox is Graffin's life narrative before and during L.A. punk's early years, detailing his observations on the genre's explosive growth and his band's steady rise in importance.
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"SOMETIMES THE MOON AND STARS WILL CATCH YOU BY SURPRISE"
- De Anthropocentric en 11-27-22
- Punk Paradox
- A Memoir
- De: Greg Graffin
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Greg Graffin
Great band - sleepy book
Revisado: 10-13-23
To start, I love Bad Religion and have since I was a kid. So, of course, I was excited to read this. I did find a lot of the details of the early days of BR to be interesting. If you aren’t a big BR fan then you probably wouldn’t. Frankly I found a lot of the rest of the book to be pretty boring. Graffin wavers between self-deprecating and self-righteous. No dig on the band or Greg as a musician but I could probably leave the book.
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