Book Reviews
Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You Heidi Grant Harvard Business Review Press (June 2018) In a situation when there is a request for help, how to nourish both parties’ emotional needs while alleviating their anxieties. According to Heidi…
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Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb Harvard Business Review Press (April 2018) “Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history.” Stephen Hawking According to Ajay Agrawal, Joshua…
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Bull Shit Jobs: A Theory David Graeber Simon & Schuster (May 2018) So many jobs — too many jobs — whose patron saint is Sisyphus To what does the title of this book refer? According to David Graeber, a recent…
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The Hard Break: The Case For The 24/6 Lifestyle Aaron Edelheit IdeaPress Publishing (May 2018) “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” Warren Buffett I selected the Buffett observation to…
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Build an A Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve Whitney Johnson Harvard Business School Press (May 2018) “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”…
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My Father’s Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company Cal Turner Jr. with Rob Simbeck Center Street (May 2018) How an “acorn” in Scottsville, Kentucky, in 1919 became an “oak tree” with more than 16,000…
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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl Princeton University Press (April 2018) How and why, in order to “open up our social possibilities, we must open our minds to radical…
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Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive Bradley R. Staats Harvard Business Review Press (June 2018) “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and…
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Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great Carmine Gallo St. Martin’s Press (June 2018) How to master the ancient art of persuasion by combining words and ideas to move people to high-impact action I have read…
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Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company’s Future — and What to Do About It Tien Tzuo with Gabe Weisert Penguin Random House (June 2018) How and why “the Subscription Model is transforming every sector of the modern…
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