Book Reviews
Checking In: Hospitality-Driven Thinking, Business, and You Stephen J. Cloobeck Greenleaf Book Group Press (October 2018) Why and how all of the greatest organizations are driven by fulfilling customer needs As I began to read Stephen Cloobeck’s book, I was…
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The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World Richard D’Aveni Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 2018) How to create “vast, unltrapowerful, hyperefficient production systems” Abraham Lincoln once suggested that “the best way to predict the future is to…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2019) Timeless and timely knowledge and wisdom for all managers This is the latest in a series of…
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Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side Howard Marks Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2018) How and why “understanding cycles is an essential ingredient in an investment success” I agree with Howard Marks about the understanding market cycles as…
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Transforming Nokia: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change Risto Siilasmaa with Catherine Fredman McGraw-Hill Education (October 2018) “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” Andy Grove In this book, written with Catherine Fredman, Risto…
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World Adam M. Grant Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (2016) Note: I read this book when it was first published and have just re-read it again. I enjoyed it even more this time and…
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Engage to Win: A Blueprint for Success in the Engagement Economy Steve Lucas Greenleaf Book Group Press (2018) How to provide much more value to your customers and to your organization In The Art of War, Sun Tzu asserts that…
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Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense Jenny Uglow Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2018) Probably the definitive biography of a polymath “who was large, who contained multitudes” My title paraphrases Walt Whitman’s declaration in his classic work, “Song of…
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Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work Ravin Jesuthasan & John W. Boudreau Harvard Business Review Press (October 2018) Here’s a detailed roadmap for revinventing what workers do and how they do it The healthiest organizations are…
Read MoreCharm: The Elusive Enchantment Joseph Epstein Lyons Press (October 2018) A subject that “manages to carry on quite nicely without the aid of a locked-in, ironclad definition” I have read and reviewed most of Joseph Epstein’s earlier books, many of…
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