Book Reviews
There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift Kevin Evers Harvard Business Review Press (April 2025) Here’s a “chronological romp” through Taylor Swift’s incomparable career thus far To what does “this” refer in the title of Kevin Evers’s…
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Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters: The Science Behind Employee Happiness and Organizational Performance Jean-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward Harvard Business Review Press (March 2025) “How to establish and then sustain a shared sense of wellbeing in our workplace culture?” That’s…
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Character: Life Lessons in Courage, Integrity, and Leadership Robert L. Dilenschneider Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Group (March 2025) “An ideal world would be one in which everyone gets to be all they can be.” Mitzi Perdue That’s Mitzi Perdue’s answer to…
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Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection Christian Van Nieuwerburgh and Robert Biswas-Diener Berrett-Koehler Publishers (March 2025) “There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.” Simon Sinek Long ago, I realized that because I have…
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The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth Chris Zook and James Allen Harvard Business Review Press (June 2016) How to avoid or resolve three organizational crises that can occur after start-up and early-growth phases In 1865,…
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More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead Magnus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter with Marissa Afton and Rob Stembridge Harvard Business Review Press (March 2025) How and why, “paradoxically,” AI can make leaders more human…
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Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from the People in Charge Melody Wilding Crown Currency (March q2025) How to turn the way your situation at work is into the way you want it to be To what does…
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Leave Your Phone at the Door: The Joy of OFFLINE Howard Lewis Radius Book Group (March 2025) Here is a lively and entertaining exploration of reality on the other side of random serendipity I cannot recall another book that I…
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Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau Harvard Business Review Press (February 2025) How space’s many elements fit together into a whole greater than the sum of its parts According to Matthew Weinzierl and…
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Rob Nissen rob.nissen@fortierpr.com Predictable Profits: Transform Your Business from One-Off Sales to Recurring Revenue with Memberships and Subscriptions Stu McLaren Hay House (February 2025) A secret sauce for “wildly successful” businesses When I was in high school, I participated in…
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