Book Reviews
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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How to Get Along with Anyone: The Playbook for Predicting and Preventing Conflict at Work and Home John Eliot and Jim Guinn Simon & Schuster (February 2025) Here are “the ingredients for immunity to conflict kryptonite” …
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The ROI of Thought Leadership: Calculating the Value That Sets Organizations Apart Cindy Anderson and Anthony Marshall Wiley (February 2025) How and why — on average — data-informed ROI for thought leadership is 156% Cindy Anderson and Anthony Marshall define…
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The Insider’s Guide to Innovation at Microsoft Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin Wiley (February 2025) Two Microsoft Insiders Explain Innovation in Highly Innovative Ways Years ago during my interview of him, John Kotter suggested that the greatest challenge to change…
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HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers Elisa Farri and Gabriele Rosani Harvard Business Review Press (February 2025) How to leverage gen AI in order to save time, innovate faster, and lead more effectively According to Harvard Information Technology, “Generative…
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Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, and Rodney Zemmel Wiley (June 2023) Here’s a detailed perspective on how to build enterprise capabilities to scale What do Eric Lamarre,…
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