Sunday, 22 November 2015

Book: The Business Tango - Embracing Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship, Anna Shilina


 
Anna is a lovely dynamic young lady. I think her idea of approaching key successful business owners in South Africa to get their insights into intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship is brilliant. Getting insights from people such as Margaret Hirsch, DJ Fresh and Michael Jordaan’s take on success and failure and learning from fellow business owners what has worked for them and learning from their lessons is really great. There are pearls of wisdom throughout the book as you are learning from the best. This book relates to business owners as well as to employees. I must admit that I was thrilled to contribute to the book from a communication management point of view.
I was really quite impressed that Blair Singer did the foreword for her. Something that Anna mentions early on in the book is to make notes in a book so that you can refer back to key areas that you found pertinent. I too have always been quite reluctant to do this and have pretty much resorted to Post-It notes (probably because our team has a shared library). However,  Anna shares that if you were given a choice between a book with no notes in it and a book that Albert Einstein read and made notes in, which one would you be most likely to read?
 
This book looks at different business challenges, with solutions and advice from different business experts. I quick, easy and enjoyable read.