Book Reviews
Safe Danger: An Unexpected Method for Sparking Connection, Finding Purpose, and Inspiring Innovation Ben Swire Balance Book Group (October 2025) How to think creatively about thinking creatively I am a staunch advocate of what I characterize as “strategic reading” of…
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CEO Ready: What You Need to Know to Earn the Job — and Keep the Job Mark Thompson and Byron Loflin Business Review Press (November 2025) How do you measure up as an executive? Do you know? The last time…
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Here is an excerpt from Anthony Lane‘s review of Anthony Hopkins’s recently published memoir, “We Did OK, Kid,” written by Anthony Lane for The New Yorker. To read the complete review check out others, sign up for email alerts, and…
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Fly! A Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom and Building a Life You Love Steph Wagner Matt Holt Matt Holt/An Imprint of Ben Bella Books (November 2025) For women especially, financial independence is not desirable…it is IMPERATIVE. My parents divorced when…
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Culture Design: How to Build a High-Performing, Resilient Organization with Purpose James D. White and Krista White Harvard Business Review Press (November 2025) The Pronouns of High-Impact Transformation: WHAT, WHY, WHO, and by WHEN James White and Krista White provide…
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Choosing to Lead Against the Current: The Courageous Operating System for Changemakers Eveline Shen North Atlantic Books (August 2025) Here’s a system to maximize organizational strengths, minimize weaknesses, and sustain a compdetitive advantage For every business book that is published,…
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Irresistible Change: A Blueprint for Earning Buy-In and Breakout Success Phil Gilbert Wiley (November 2025) Soon, change will be your product, your organization will be the marketplace, and its teams will be your customers. I agree with Phil Gilbert that…
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History Matters David McCullough, Edited by Dorie McCullough Lawson, and Michael Hill Simon & Schuster (September 2025) And so do those who keep it alive when we need it most to nourish and enlighten us In recent years, I have…
Read MoreWho Knew Barry Diller Simon & Shuster (May 2025) A corporate executive for all seasons Barry Diller was born in San Francisco (in 1942) and raised within adequate but sufficient afflence in Beverly Hills. After graduation from high school, he…
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The Short List: How to Drive Business Development by Focusing on the People Who Matter Most David Ackert Greenleaf Book Group Press (January 2025) How to have “the right conversations with the right people at the right time in the…
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