Food for the business brain
Books and podcasts that captured the minds of industry captains this month
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Howie Lau Managing director, corporate development & partnerships, NCS
It's increasingly hard to find time to read with intent as the pace of the tech world continues to accelerate. Thank goodness for the wide range of podcasts and video summaries for bite-size, on-the-go information, learning, and entertainment.
The best book for me in 2021 was China's Leaders: From Mao to Now by David Shambaugh. It's a chronological, in-depth coverage of 5 key leaders (Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping), and how their backgrounds, personalities, and leadership styles moulded the China we see today.
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