Book Reviews
All the Difference: Six Leadership Actions to Bridge Perspectives, Strengthen Teams, and Create Value Susan MacKenty Brady, Stuart D. Kilman, and Leslie C. Smith Harvard Business Review Press (July 2026) Together, we can achieve what any one of us cannot,…
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Neuroscience for Leaders: A Brain-Adaptive Leadership Approach Nikolaos Dimitriadis and Alexandros Psychogios KoganPage (2016) “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable.” Charles Darwin…
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50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do; Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2006) An excellent guide to sources that can help us to “make a real difference” in…
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The Panoramic Leader: How Great Leaders See Differently Cornelia Choe and Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches Publishing (July 2026) How to develop and nourish panoramic intelligence within yourself as well as within others Whatever their size and nature may be, organizations…
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Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean Roberto Verganti Harvard Business Press (2009) Does design drive innovation or does innovation drive design? The answer is “Yes.” The success of each approach depends almost entirely…
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The Decisive Company: How High-Performance Organizations Connect Strategy to Execution Steven Elliott Houndstooth Press (February 2025) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison I agree with Edison and so does Steven Elliott. Organizations today face challenges that are more volatile,…
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Shakespeare: The Biography Peter Ackroyd Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (October 2005) “Shakespeare is the only biographer of Shakespeare.” Ralph Waldo Emerson” Peter Ackroyd suggests that Emerson’s remark “is one of those rare cases whose work is singularly important and influential, yet…
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Poverty Abolitionists: Faith, Activism, and Hope for Difficult Times David Beckmann Bloomsbury Academic May (2026) “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead…
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Data Inspired: Building an Organizational Culture for Inquiry and Lasting Transformation Sebastian Wernicke Georgetown University Press (June 2026) “The essence of strategy is choosing what NOT to do.” Michael Porter: In Data Inspired, Sebastian Wernicke achieves three separate but related,…
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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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