Book Reviews
Superteams: The Science and Secrets of High-Performing Teams Ron Friedman Simon & Schuster (June 2026) No team can be “super” unless its members excel in communication, cooperation, and (especially) collaboration As I began to read Superteams, I was again reminded…
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Market Engineering: Because Markets Don’t Build Themselves Bruce Cleveland Silicon Valley Press (June 2026) How to create or recreate a market with sustainable competitive advantages How does Bruce Cleveland define market engineering? He suggests that the term seems to be…
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Maybe It’s Me: Looking Inward to Create Real Change Through Conscious Choices Erika Alessandrini Amplify Publishing (May 2026) “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo the Possum Everyone encounters important questions to answer and serious problems to…
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How Change Really Works: Seven Science-Based Principles for Transforming Your Organization Julia Dhar, Kristy Ellmer, and Philip Jameson Harvard Business Review Press (May (2026) How to overcome “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” Years ago, I asked…
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I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything Joanna Stern Harper/An Imprint of HarperCollins (May 2026) Here is “a reported and lived life” for one year, “not generated AI text.” Joanna Stern formulated a vow…
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The Mission Generation: Reclaim Your Purpose, Rewrite Success, and Rebuild Our Future Arun Gupta and Thomas Fewer Wiley (May 2026) Financial success and social purpose are NOT mutuallly exclusive; they’re interdependent. In a previously published book, Venture Meets Mission (January 2024), …
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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 (1564-1616),…
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How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (& Didn’t) Joseph S. Moore HarperBusiness (April 2026) To get ahead, GO AHEAD. That has never been easier than it is today. This is not the…
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Walk: Rediscover the Most Natural Way to Boost Your Health and Longevity — One Step at a Time Courtney Conley and Milica McDowell GCP/Balance (May 2026) How to become a “lean, mean walking machine.” There are so many points to…
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The Octopus Organization: A Guide to Thriving in a World of Continuous Transformation Phil Lel-Brun and Ana Werner Harvard Business Review Press (December 2025) “Everything changes, nothing changes.” Heraclitus (c. 500 BC) How can both organizations and individuals thrive “in…
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