Book Reviews
Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You Are Put on the Spot Matt Abrahams Simon Element/An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. (September 2023) How to have high-impact in both formal presentations and informal conversations Most people…
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CONTACT: Tess Woods The Flexibility Paradigm: Humanizing the Workplace for Productivity, Profitability, and Possibility Manar Sweillam Morales Georgetown University Press (January 2025) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt As…
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The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money Elizabeth Husserl New World Library (January 2025) How to embrace wealth as an experience of joy Elizabeth Husserl describes this book as “an invitation to explore a new possibility…
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Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior Sandra Matz Harvard Business Review Press (January 2025) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford How does Sandra Matz organize the information,…
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Leadership as Masterpiece Creation: What Business Leaders Can Learn About Moral-Risk Taking Charles Spinosa, Matthew Hancocks, and Haridimos Tsoukas MIT Press (March 2024) How leaders can decide which moral personality they want their organization to have In the Inferno section…
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The Purpose Code: How to Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave a Lasting Legacy Jordan Grumet Harriman House (January 2025) Here is a series of self-helpful prescriptions Long ago, I concluded that it is very difficult — if not impossible…
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Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload Richard C. Cytowic MIT Press (October 2024) The story of how and why we became “helplessly distracted” began long ago. Richard Cytowic is convinced that…
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Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can’t Win Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao Harvard Business Review Press (August 2024) The smart rival company’s road to success is paved with smart innovation Most of the counsel…
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Psychological Safety (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) Multiple Contributors in collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they cherish.” Voltaire This is one of the volumes in the HBR…
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Leading Through: Activating the Soul, Heart, and Mind of Leadership Kim B. Clark, Jonathan R. Clark, and Erin E. Clark Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering I was…
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