Book Reviews
Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut John Wiley & Sons (2009) To the best of my knowledge, there is no better single source for expert guidance on…
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After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People Dean Spears and Michael Geruso Simon & Schuster (July 2025) Why responding to depopulation will be more challenging than responding to climate change At the outset, Dean Spears and Michael…
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where and Why it Happens Benedict Carey Random House (2014) How to take full advantage of a host of techniques that deepen learning that remain largely unknown outside scientific circles As Benedict…
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz Simon & Schuster (March 2016) Here is a unique methodology “to solve big problems, test new ideas, get…
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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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Harnessing Serendipity: Collaboration Artists, Conveners and Connectors David Adler with James Cornehlsen and Andrew Frothingham as well as 66 Other Collaborators Published by David Adler (April 2023) “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. “ Margaret Mead As…
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The Emotionally Intelligent Team: Building Collaborative Groups That Outperform the Rest Vanessa Urch Druskat Harvard Business Review Press (July 2025) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb In the…
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The Difference That Makes a Difference: NLP and Science of Positive Change Josh Davis and Greg Prosmushkin St.Martin’s Essentials (July 2025) The science of strategic learning, persuasion, and evaluation As you may already know, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is a psychological…
Read MoreThe Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America Jeffrey Rosen Simon & Schuster (February 2024) Why happiness is the result of who you are and what you do, NOT how…
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