Yesterday I finished reading another book. “Fl!p” from Peter Sheahan. Here is what I think about this book:

First of all, I really enjoyed reading the book. The style it is written in is very personal; while reading you can imagine the author sitting next to you in a bar and having a chat about economic possibilites. Sheahan has in my opinion a very fresh style of writing. Maybe this comes from the well known Australian mateship. Besides this the book gives the reader a lot of examples for everything he explains. Here he not uses his experiences as a consultant for companies like Google, BMW or Microsoft, but also personal experiences he made that are usefull to emphasize a relation, e.g. the relation between customers and a business. Of course he doesn’t leave out to refer to all known flipstars (or at least the ones Sheahan thinks they are).

The book consists of 7 chapters. I personally liked the chapters “action creates clarity” and “to get control give it up”. From my personal experience in some companies I can tell that the key aspects of these chapters are still not understood by (too) many people in management positions. The other chapters “fast, good, cheap: pick three – than add something extra” and “business is personal” were not so good. This is just because all the things he describes in here were already described by so many other books, and if there are still people out there who don’t get the message of how to deal with customers, I might even start my own consultancy to teach them the well known business basics. ;-)

Though this book is not filled with completely new aspects, I think it is worth reading. It just makes fun to read it, and when you finished it you get this feeling that you really want to change something!