Book Reviews
Be the Unicorn: 12 Data-Driven Habits That Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest William Vanderbloemen HarperCollins Leadership/An Imprint of HarperCollins (November 2023) How determined are you tgo to work hard AND smart? Otherwise…. What are the defining characteristics of…
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Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world’s most successful people Polina Marinova Pompliano Harriman House (June 2021) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford Why did Polina Marinova Pompliano write Hidden…
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris PublicAffairs (2012) How the story of U.S. business development “can be charted as an evolution from local to regional and finally national networks” Note: The material in this…
Read MoreLove + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life Marcus Buckingham Harvard Business Review Press (April 2022) How to create “a more powerful, more authentic, and more…
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Breaking Through: Stories and Best Practices From Companies That Help Women Succeed Martine Liautaud John Wiley & Sons (April 2016) How and why mentoring and sponsorship programs can help to accelerate the professional development of high-potential women If anything, the…
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Output to Outcome: An Operating Model for the Age of AI Mik Kersten IT Revolution (July 2026) HOW and WHY organizations must transition from managing outputs to delivering outcomes. Why did Mik Kersten write this book? “The thesis of Output…
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All the Difference: Six Leadership Actions to Bridge Perspectives, Strengthen Teams, and Create Value Susan MacKenty Brady, Stuart D. Kilman, and Leslie C. Smith Harvard Business Review Press (July 2026) Together, we can achieve what any one of us cannot,…
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Neuroscience for Leaders: A Brain-Adaptive Leadership Approach Nikolaos Dimitriadis and Alexandros Psychogios KoganPage (2016) “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable.” Charles Darwin…
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50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do; Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2006) An excellent guide to sources that can help us to “make a real difference” in…
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The Panoramic Leader: How Great Leaders See Differently Cornelia Choe and Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches Publishing (July 2026) How to develop and nourish panoramic intelligence within yourself as well as within others Whatever their size and nature may be, organizations…
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