Michael Batko

Valuable work now needs people who do what can't be written into a job description.

Decision rules from building Bridgewater: radical truth and radical transparency.

163 short chapters, each one practical idea about work, hiring and service.

Six principles of compliance, from reciprocity to scarcity, and how sellers use them.

How to design moments that make experiences richer and more memorable.

Alfred Adler's psychology taught through five nights of dialogue.

Musk's life from South Africa and PayPal to running SpaceX and Tesla at once.

How a running-shoe importer became Nike, surviving one cash crisis after another.

Which metric actually governs each business-model type.

Venture financing term by term, for founders negotiating their first rounds.

The first book of a heroic fantasy trilogy, the Kingkiller Chronicle.

Scott's two-axis framework — care personally, challenge directly — gives a practical vocabulary for the feedback conversations managers routinely avoid. The quadrant model (Radical Candor, Ruinous Empathy, Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity) is one of the most operationally useful tools in management writing.

Speeches making the case for a latticework of mental models from many fields.

The habit loop of cue, routine and reward, and how to change a habit by its routine.

A tennis champion's life story, built around the fact that he hated tennis.