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05 February, 2023

—Review of Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

The first thing that caught my attention was its title. Why the history of ‘development’, why not a history of ‘sustainable development’, that is such a buzzword these in last decades. After reading this book, I’m actually convinced that my subject at the doctoral program should use the word ‘development’ and not ‘sustainable development’. ...

09 February, 2022

The mission of this book, for which it is really hard to say that it is only a business book, is to: "make a difference in shaping organizations and leaders who consider broader responsibilities than the balance sheet." According to authors, to achieve a funky organization we must have the gifts and guts to imagine and work wonders. All this implies risk - total risk - and, at the end of the day, our personal risk. Yes, personal risk. When we wake up next day, we should remind ourselfs that business is not a rocket science. It basically still boils down to making money. Also in Funky Inc.....

04 November, 2016

Thinking, Fast and Slow is the book of the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman. My rating of the book is 4 out of 5 stars. Short review presents the psychodrama with the two characters, Sistem 1 and Sistem 2. Book shows us, that it’s easier to recognize other people’s mistake than our own, among many other very useful cases and examples. For business, for study and our relationships. Did you know that the formula for marital stability is simply the frequency of lovemaking minus frequency of quarrels? Book contributes heavily to the decision making theory. Although not written primarily for decision makers, this book helps us think better about our decisions. ...

12 May, 2016

How is it possible that children, who have just completed kindergarten are able to build a tower higher than students of business schools? In the game, everything is possible. Very popular game "spaghetti challenge" shows the value and importance of prototypes, which are a key components of design thinking....

05 September, 2012

Ken Robinson in the book The Element: A New View of Human Capacity by Ken Robinson explains that lucky people tend to: + maximize chance opportunities; + listen to their intuition; + expect to be lucky; + have an attitude that allows them to turn bad luck to good; + know how they are intelligent. But, to find their element lucky people had to overcome their personal, social, and cultural “circles of constraints"....

24 August, 2012

Really interesting to find out that this book has only 60 small pages. I don’t know what I actually expected but this was a nice surprise. In the book, there is some really good advice. To remember from this book, in my opinion, is: successful careers are not planned. … But naturally one has to be prepared for it. Even more, if you succeed you should start developing a parallel career....

12 January, 2010

Letters of agreement/offers/contracts/invoices in design business should always be separated in two parts. First part of the offer should be the cost of layout/design development of the agreed solution. The second part of the offer are the costs of the rights of use....

27 September, 2008
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Marko Savić

Economics teacher at the IB diploma programme of Gimnazija Bežigrad. Simultaneously an advocate of connected—railways, bus, and cycling—infrastructure at the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Mobilitatis Omni (in formation).

Author of the book, titled in Slovene Oblikovanje poslovnih modelov (English title would be Business Model Design). Interdisciplinary doctoral student in Environmental Protection at the University of Ljubljana. Former Senior Lecturer in Design Management at the Faculty of Design.

Marko is a former first-league volleyball player, youth volleyball coach, and organizer of national and international volleyball competitions today. Simultaneously, creator and commentator on the vòlej.si/en—a platform for live indoor and beach volleyball broadcasts.

Occasional post-pandemic morning runner, and a year-round train cyclist.