Monthly Summary of May 2020
This is the first edition of our monthly newsletter on Medium.com. If you want to check out the older editions you can do this here.
Another month in lockdown has passed, another month of more time for reading. Two great new members joined our team: A warm welcome to Steffi (London) and Fadeelah (Barcelona).
Bonus: We are super happy to present you the book recommendations of Melissa Perri.
Want to get your hands on Jeff Gothelf’s new book “Forever Employable?” Take 10 minutes to share your reading habits with us and be in for the chance to get a free signed copy!
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Book of the month
Loonshots
How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
by Safi Bahcall
In Loonshots, physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behaviour that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs.
Drawing on the science of phase transitions, Bahcall shows why teams, companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing wild new ideas to rigidly rejecting them.
Loonshots identifies the small shifts in team and company structure that control this transition, the same way that temperature controls the change from water to ice.
368 pages, St Martin’s Press 2019
Get this book (amazon.com, amazon.de)
New collections
Collections shall give you a quick overview to a specific topic like Product Discovery, Design Essentials or Remote Working.
New great book recommendations
Our series “On my shelf” features product leaders from all over the world, who are passionate about reading and sharing their book recommendations with the community.
- Melissa Perri — Product Management Leader, Executive Product Coach, Author, and Speaker (New York)
- Gaurav Nemade — Product Manager at Google AI (Mountain View, USA)
- Stefanie Bialas — Implementation Consultant — Team Lead at makepositive (London)
- Nacho Bassino — CTO & CPO at Best Day (Cancún, Mexico)
- Jeff Gothelf — Author and Founder of Sense & Respond Press (Barcelona, Spain)
- Book Sips #13 — ‘What You Do Is Who You Are’ by Ben Horowitz
- Book Sips #14 — ‘Obviously Awesome’ by April Dunford
- Book Sips #15 — ‘Creativity Inc’ by Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace
- Book Sips #16 — ‘Don’t make me think’ by Steve Krug
On My Shelf
If you want to be part of the community and share your favourite books with others fill out this form. (approx. 15 mins)
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Let’s get better together 📚.
Best,
Lena, Shane, Josh, Fadeelah, Steffi & Alex
