Samsung Rising - Book Reviews

Samsung Rising: Book Review

An absolutely riveting, unputdownable book that will set your heart beating & mind racing. An amazing effort by?Geoffrey Cain?!

What captivated me:

- The secret, intricate, details of the 'kingdom’ called Samsung.

- “You get a job with Samsung, Hyundai, LG, SK. Then your parents, and society, say you’re a success and brag about you to their friends. If you don’t get into Samsung, well, then you’re a failure and you don’t exist.”

- Since B.C. prized lifelong loyalty, he believed in a careful and cautious approach to each new hire. He personally sat in on almost every employee interview—reportedly about 100,000 in his tenure

- Deep "WHY's": Why does a single company command such an absolute obeisance (abnormal respect); why the business is a murky melting pot of money, power, politics. "Locals referred to South Korea as the “Republic of Samsung.”

- A woman who attached the serial numbers to microwaves said she treated her task as an exercise in discipline and integrity. They admit it’s the same simple function, hour after hour, but neither thinks the days are dull,” observed Magaziner of the workers he watched. One woman double-checked her work even after the inspector came around.

- The INCREDIBLE stories of motivation, daring, strength, relentlessness would make any entrepreneur shiver. While I never use Samsung, this book made the company a hero to me.

- Lessons for all of us whenever we try & 'overdo' things. Setting unrealistic goals, targets, almost always leads to ruin. (Case of the Samsung exploding phones).

- As the chairman himself wrote in his book of essays, “Several years ago I walked from my office on the 28th floor of the Samsung headquarters all the way to the lower level employee offices in order to measure the travel time and to see what the quickest course was. I have also changed the location of drawer handles to see if there’s a more convenient way to use it, and rearranged furniture.”

- 'Nunchi' is the Korean art of gauging others’ moods, even if the other person says nothing. This was a must learning at high-level Samsung meetings.

- Frugality at another level. "At meals, he would tear his napkin in half and save the other half for later,” (Samsung Founder).

- MOTIVATION! How Samsung engineers memorised semiconductor designs when they visited Japanese factories.

- “Do you know,” he asked a group of his executives, attempting to make a point, “how many kernels of rice there are in a single piece of sushi?” They had no idea. “Two hundred and fifty,” he said. A master sushi chef, explained the chairman, reaches into his rice bowl and takes out exactly two hundred and fifty kernels of rice, “perhaps eight out of ten times,”

Notes contd here:?https://bit.ly/dkb-samsung

GET THE BOOK. It's GOLD. 100/10

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