The Change Book: Fifty Models to Explain How Things Happen by Mikael Krogerus

The Change Book: Fifty Models to Explain How Things Happen Reviews

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  Razan Alghriafi

  The book is talking about financial crises and a lot of today’s economy information. It has a rich and deep material for people who concern about this issues, which supported by models.
  Moreover, when we evaluate the book regarding to those professionals in economies, it will be a great book that simplify the idea. But in the other hand, do not read it if you don't have any interests toward economic world.
  
  I'm thinking of re-read it again, it is supposed to be my cup of tea.
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  Fleme Varkey

  Authors Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler previously came out with The Decision Book. It was termed as a book containing excellent strategic models and tools for most leadership environments. It taught one through 50 models on decision-making. Now, they are out with another — The Change Book — in which they attempt to give another 50 models to explain how change happens. How do you make your way in a world that is changing at an unprecedented rate? Why do we have less and less time? Why are some people unfaithful? How can our government act against threats before they happen? This book is about change — from the small and seemingly insignificant transitions in our day-to-day lives, to the big and almost incomprehensible shifts in human history.
  
  In The Change Book, you’ll find models explaining financial crises, why biotechnology is the industry of the future and why cities are the new nations. Whet­h­er you’re buying a new car, dec­i­d­ing whom to vote for, or making an investment, this black book offe­rs simple explanations for our complicated world and radically challenge some of our preconceived ideas.
  
  The Change Book, a pocket-sized publication, small enough to slip into a handbag, and a mere 151 pages long, makes the following claim: Understand the change before you go around wanting it. Each section uses models and graphs to present ideas in layman terms. The reasoning be­hind this idea is that we understand concepts better when presented as images. Krogerus makes use of basic pie charts, mind maps, flow charts and axis models in order to translate his ideas into a simpler format. Most seem childlike and useless, but they all fit into a larger scheme of things.
  
  The Change Book is full of stimulating and thought-provoking facts, providing the reader with a plethora of entertaining conversation, but not all will be enthused by models and charts.
  
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  Raed

  In a democracy you say what you like and do what you are told- Gerald Barry
  Page 31
  Rhizome concept of knowledge
  If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to - Dorothy Parker
  sagan map pioneer 10
  Science is a cemetery of dead ideas- Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
  When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty - Victor Hugo
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  Arogya

  Its like a cheat sheet. This book covers a lot of breadth, at the expense of depth. However, it touches upon a lot of ideas, and is engaging throughout.
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  Deepu George

  Some u know some u don't. Some ideas not clear
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  Gareth Otton

  What rubbish!
  
  This book picks fifty things about life at random, struggles to fit these things into mathematical, scientific or philosophical theories and then puts them down on paper. More than half are simply little more than factoids that aren't all that interesting and the other half are made up of subjective information that only argues one side of a point but is written as gospel.
  
  Then there are the diagrams which are often hard to decipher quickly and add little to the argument laid out in text.
  
  I would strongly advise against reading this book, spend your time on something else.
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  Sanjeev Kotnala

  FIFTY SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE MODELS TO HELP US MAKE SENSE OF OUR WORLD.
  
  This line hooked me to the book. At that stage I was not aware that the authors already have a hugely successful book "The Decision Book" ( mental note- Must buy and read it too).
  
  The book gives surprisingly simple explanation of our inexplicable world. And it rightly points at the start, ‘if we want to change things we have to understand them first’.
  
  I LIKE THE BOOK AND WOULD REQUEST YOU TO READ IT. A BOOK TO BE EXPERIENCED.
  
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  Nakul Shenoy

  Sticking with my love for simple, small, "pocket" books, I recently found a set of three that are definitely worth more than one read: Michael Krogerus & Roman Tschäppeler's The Decision Book, The Change Book, & The Question Book.
  
  Each of these espouse 50 Models that make you ponder on the everyday aspects of life. My personal favourite among the three (and each of them is good!) is The Change Book, which vies to explain "how things happen".
  
  Try it. I know you will enjoy it.
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  Miguel Pinto

  Not being a brilliant work, it brings an assertive recap of models that help you to understand the world.
  the authors explore each model in enough detail and visual material, that aids the understanding of how the model works and also what benefits it brings.
  if you are a buff into modeling, this is good read
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  Juan

  Este libro consigue lo que se propone: lectura ligera, para ratos perdidos. No lo que dice que se propone, que es... No lo tengo muy claro. ¿Que la gente cambie leyéndolo? Tiene hasta un apartado al final para tomar notas y demás.
  Al final, es una colección de artículos cortos, con una serie de factoides y gráficos que hablan de una serie de tendencias de la época cuando se escribió. Algunas predicciones, como que China iba a implosionar en 2020, no parece que hayan tenido mucho éxito (aunque para ser justos esta viene de una web, Long Bets, y así se menciona).
  Por lo demás, un libro entretenido. Y ya.
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  Michael Wolcott

  This is another book that pulls together so many ideas, which offers thought provoking questions that help to generate so many other connections. I get so inspired by these books by learning about broad topics and I really appreciate that they’ve taken the time to put as many of these items together. I was hoping it would give me more insight into change management, and instead it was bigger than that. Which was actually more useful for me.
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  Yuni Amir

  A good read for those who want to have a screenshot of what matter in the modern world. The models are all fun to read and easy to understand. I suggest after reading this book to read further on the concepts / ideas eg. universal basic income, financial crisis, religion, politics etc.
  
  But for experts, you might find this book to be reductive.
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  Amit Thumar

  While the book does answer a lot of questions, it also lets us ask the same question to ourselves. Some models like climate change is of paramount importance. But overall, I didn't feel like I learnt much. It's not like I know everything, but personally, most things in the book didn't really appeal to me.
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  OSCAR GADEA UGARTE

  Un pequeño volumen lleno de ideas y modelos sobre el mundo en que vivimos. Cada idea ocupa una sola página, por lo que se trata sobre todo de hacernos pensar y estimularnos a investigarlas más a fondo, buscando otras fuentes. Aunque es un libro editado en 2012, la mayoría de las ideas son de actualidad.
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  Hemant Jain

  Loads of 'consulting type' models of explaining, understanding and making sense of change.
  Most of them help you define change in a particular manner.
  To be effective, you will need to use a combination or a couple of them rather than use one in isolation
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  Rijuta

  The book is like a combination of blurbs about topics that in themselves would be independent books. Need to read, re-read and ponder about each topic touched upon independently. A continuous reading isn't advisable as there is a possibility of information overload.
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  An Gie

  It was a short read with lots of topic covered that kept me entertained. Its one of those you can carry and read and learned something that was mostly summarized. Definitely gave me some ideas on what to read next.
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  Sheirly

  Thoroughly enjoyed this book. The authors manage to explain 50 change models in a simplified visual summary style that it makes it easier to comprehend what changed, understanding current trends and what can change in the future. This is surely worth a re read for me.
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  Cristobal Peña

  Tons of useless models such as the oscar wilde quotatuon model , tv series model and a bunch of models which absolutely 0 predictive power .
  A downgrade from the decision book which was already on shaky ground
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  الزهْراء يحيى

  It's a very light book that gives you a quick summary on how things happens and why. It gets you thinking: how did I get here? Where will I be a year from now?
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  Lale

  Verilen bir ödev üzerine okuduğum kitap.. Normal şartlar altında okumazdım muhtemelen..
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  Mohit

  This is a pretty interesting book in parts. Sophisticated and not-too-full of data. Makes for an easy read. Will pick up the other parts of this series as well I guess.