James O’Toole
The Growth Advantage: A Business Blueprint for the Ultimate Competitive Advantage Bob Lisser Rowan & Littlefield (May 2022) Here’s the basic blueprint from an architect of organizational competitive advantages “To develop a Strategy Advantage, you need to maximize the following…
Read More
Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing…Including You Brad Stulberg HarperOne: An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers (September 2023) Accepting the inevitability of change “turns out to be empowering and even an advantage.” In the Introduction, Brad Stulberg observes,…
Read More
The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason The MIT Press (August 2023) A brilliant analysis of two abstractions that are increasingly shaping our lives According to Igor…
Read More
Reinvent: Navigating Business Transformation in a Hyperdigital Era Faisal Hoque Fast Company Press (July 2023) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith I agree with Marshall Goldsmith. In fact, I take his insight a step further: What…
Read More
Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn Portfolio/Penguin ( “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering There are several metrics that matter but the one to which this book’s subtitle…
Read More
The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World’s Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems Paulo Savaget Flatiron Books/Imprint of Macmillan Books (March 2023) How four results-driven approaches can help resolve major crises by solving serious problems In Leading Change, James O’Toole…
Read More
The Leadership Conversation [colon] Make Bold Change [comma] One Conversation at a Time Rose Fass, TotalPublshingAndMedia (November 2022) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt I was again reminded of the…
Read More
The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide for Finding Possibility in the Unknown Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr Harvard Business Review Press (July 2022) “The single biggest predictor of executive success is how you deal with uncertainty.” Sam Yagan Nathan…
Read More
Unstuck: Reframe your thinking to free yourself from the patterns and people that hold you back Lia Garvin Topix Media Lab (April 2022) “The real superpower is not the ability itself — it’s knowing when to use it.” Lia Garvin…
Read More
The Growth Advantage: A Business Blueprint for the Ultimate Competitive Advantage Bob Lisser Rowan & Littlefield (May 2022) Here’s the basic blueprint from an architect of organizational competitive advantages “To develop a Strategy Advantage, you need to maximize the following…
Read More