Notable articles I have commissioned & edited, or written:
“The Complicated Business Legacy of GE’s Jack Welch” by Kaushik Viswanath (review of William D. Cohan’s Power Failure). Fast Company. Nov 16, 2022.
“Silicon Valley’s Brain Drain is Bringing Innovation Back to Small Cities” by Kaushik Viswanath (Q&A with Steve Case). Fast Company. Oct 6, 2022.
(in Marker, a Medium publication:)
“The Limits of John Mackey’s Brand of Enlightened Capitalism” by David Zax. Oct 19, 2020.
“3 Ways to Prepare for a Future You Can’t Predict” by Annie Duke. June 5, 2020.
“How Jio Became the Darling of Silicon Valley” by Vedica Kant. Aug 3, 2020.
“The New Hot Startups Will Be Camels, Not Unicorns” by Alexandre Lazarow. April 3, 2020.
(from the Read Like a Boss series*:)
“How Understanding Hackers Changed This Entrepreneur’s Life” by Jay Graber. Feb 14, 2020.
“How Phil Knight’s Nike Memoir Inspired My Approach to VC Investing” by Nicole Quinn. Feb 28, 2020.
(from the business book retrospective series*:)
“It’s Finally Time to Retire Good to Great from the Leadership Canon” by Margaret Heffernan. Mar 22, 2021.
“David Graeber’s Debt Shows Us How to Think About the Post-Pandemic, Climate Crisis Economy” by Margaret Heffernan. July 20, 2021.
“What Everyone Got Wrong About The Long Tail” by Marina Krakovsky. Nov 20, 2020.
(book Q&As:)
“How Uber and Airbnb Created a Parasite Economy” by Kaushik Viswanath (Q&A with Juliet B. Schor, author of After the Gig). Sept 14, 2020.
“How Netflix Exported Its Unusual Corporate Culture Across the Globe” by Kaushik Viswanath (Q&A with Erin Meyer, coauthor of No Rules Rules. Dec 17, 2020.
“Why Corporate America Gave Up on R&D” by Kaushik Viswanath (Q&A with Ashish Arora and Sharon Belenzon, professors at the Duke Fuqua School of Business). July 7, 2020.
(from the I Read It So You Don’t Have To series*:)
“I Read It So You Don’t Have To: An Ugly Truth” by Kaushik Viswanath. Aug 9, 2021.
“I Read It So You Don’t Have To: Former GE CEO’s Memoir” by Kaushik Viswanath. Mar 15, 2021.
“I Read It So You Don’t Have To: The Data Detective” by Kaushik Viswanath. Mar 1, 2021.
(The Number Crunch daily series*)
* Number Crunch, I Read It So You Don’t Have To, Read Like a Boss, and the business book retrospective series were primarily conceived, developed, and executed by me for Marker, Medium’s business publication .)
(for Medium’s Stop Asian Hate pop-up blog:)
“Who Counts as Asian, and What Counts as Anti-Asian Hate?” by Jennifer Lee and Karthick Ramakrishnan. May 20, 2021.
“How the ‘Forever Foreigner’ Stereotype Unifies the Asian American Experience” by AAPI Data. May 13, 2021.
Notable books I have edited and/or acquired:
(all published by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
PARTNERING by Jean Oelwang (March 2022)
FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH by Arthur Brooks (Feb 2022)
THE SCOUT MINDSET by Julia Galef (April 2021)
LISTEN LIKE YOU MEAN IT by Ximena Vengoechea (March 2021)
THE INNOVATION STACK by Jim McKelvey (March 2020)
LEADERSHIP IS LANGUAGE by L. David Marquet (February 2020, Amazon Best Business Books of 2020 Pick)
OBSESSED by Emily Heyward (June 2020, Porchlight Business Book Award Winner)
FIX THIS NEXT by Mike Michalowicz (April 2020, WSJ Bestseller)
PERSONALITY ISN’T PERMANENT by Benjamin Hardy (June 2020)
THE 3-MINUTE RULE by Brant Pinvidic (October 2019)
SECRETS OF SAND HILL ROAD by Scott Kupor (June 2019)
SUBSCRIBED by Tien Tzuo with Gabe Weisert (June 2018)
GROWTH IQ by Tiffani Bova (August 2018)
REGULATORY HACKING by Evan Burfield with J.D. Harrison (June 2018)
PROFIT FIRST by Mike Michalowicz (February 2017)
CLOCKWORK by Mike Michalowicz (August 2018)
FINDING MY VIRGINITY by Richard Branson (October 2017)
THE CHALLENGER CUSTOMER by Brent Adamson and Matthew Dixon (September 2015)
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