Book Sips

F or starters, I just couldn’t believe Kahneman (author of ‘Thinking: Fast and Slow’, check our booksips #12 to learn more) just published…

Some days, I open my work calendar to find there are back-to-back meetings scheduled for the whole day. Are all of these truly relevant…

‘Ask questions instead of giving direct orders’, principle four of Carnegie’s classic and well-known book: How to Win Friends & Influence…

E very day more and more people want and need to run research on their own, and they’re not necessarily researchers themselves or have…

Working as a consultant means always diving into new industries and processes that are not familiar to me at first. In order to offer the…

I n this new professional adventure, I’m facing one of the most challenging yet exciting tasks to complete: creating a user research team…

A nother one on jobs-to-be-done (JTBD). I think that when you’re learning about a topic, it’s worth spending some time to explore different…

T he first time I heard about the notion of jobs-to-be-done it blew my mind (opposite to my cat, apparently bored by it): your customers…

Knowing Petra for a while now gave me the chance to read an early version of her new book “Strong Product People” and I loved it.

I n full honesty, it’s been a while since I don’t read such a good book about the current state of design and how we got here. It can…

I learned about this book by two different recommendations of my friends. So I had to give it a go. The power of book recommendations by…

When you read Malcolm Gladwell, you’re not just learning A LOT around a topic: you’re learning also how to express your thoughts. Actually…

I remember some peers using Pomodoros (the Italian word for tomato) for coding in the past, but that was the only contact I’ve had with…

This is the kind of book you read and then immediately recommend it to friends and colleagues.

This is the ‘Designing The Value Proposition’ old brother, the zoom out where all ideas should rely on in order to progress sustainably…

Invisible Women is a thought-provoking and eye-opening book. It has the power to make a real change and help to design a better future with

As a leader, you will always need to convince others to believe in your plan and strategy. This book gives you great advice on where to ..

This has become one of my favorite books in the neuroscience field and I don’t usually talk about having favorite books as such. Short…

So far, I was lucky enough in my career to always have the chance to work together with dedicated user researchers within my team or my..

When I recently joined my new company, this book was sent to me as a highly recommended read before starting. I had heard about it before…

I’m considering myself a generalist. As a product leader, you have to wear many hats and deal with constantly changing challenges.

The future is unpredictable. Nobody can tell what’s going to happen tomorrow, for sure. This, as true as it is, doesn’t necessarily mean…

While figuring out what the next version of the PM Library could look like and therefore interviewing a lot of our users I was re-reading…