Book Reviews
The American School of Spies: The Archeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece Stephan Talty Dutton/An Imprint of Random House (June 2026) A brilliant account of how ancient Greek antiquities were saved from the Nazis…
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Global by Design: How to Create Innovations That Scale, Travel, and Transform Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan Harvard Business Review Press (August 2026) Here is what you need to create innovative solutions that are global by design To what does…
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The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs Henry Holt and Company (2004) “Our first great poetic dramatist and a defiant rebel against all social norms.” Stanley Wells Over the years, I have read or re-read several biographies of William Shakespeare…
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The Growth Advantage: A Business Blueprint for the Ultimate Competitive Advantage Bob Lisser Rowan & Littlefield (May 2022) Here’s the basic blueprint from an architect of organizational competitive advantages “To develop a Strategy Advantage, you need to maximize the following…
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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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