Geoff Smart and Randy Street run ghSMART, a management consulting company which maintains a database of thousands of business executives and which is then used to analyze different aspects of what makes executives and businesses successful. They noticed that unsuccessful hires are one of the most expensive mistakes ever made,

The best management-related book I’ve read lately. Ben Horowitz is currently known as the cofounder and partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. This book walks through Ben’s experience as a founder/CEO of his previous companies, Loudcloud and Opsware. Ben describes in a lot of

Surgeon Atul Gawande offers a fascinating perspective on the use of checklists in medicine, aviation, and structural engineering. Drawing on real-world cases and a successful WHO study on safe surgery procedures, this book effectively argues for using checklists as a cost-efficient tool to reduce errors, enhance team communication, and transform