Book Reviews
The AI-Savvy Leader: 9 Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work David De Cremer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) How and why AI is best viewed as an invaluable coworker I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.” Tim Brown This book is one of the most recent volumes in…
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The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers & Acquisitions Game Mark L. Sirower and Jeffery M. Weirens Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company…
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Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success Ron Friedman Simon & Schuster (June 2021) How to reverse engineer success, however you define it As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of how…
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HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2014) In fact, this material can help almost anyone manage stress almost anywhere. This is one of my most popular reviews, perhaps because of pressures and stresses…
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Intuition at Work: Using Your Gut Feelings to Get Ahead Jessica Pryce-Jones Sequoia Books (July 2024) How and why intuition can help produce better answers and solutions and do so much faster Whatever their size and nature may be, all…
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The Future of Management Gary Hamel with Bill Breen Harvard Business School Press (2007) With all due respect to today’s business bestsellers, most of the best books have already been written on the most important subjects. Case in point: This…
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America Steven Johnson Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (2008) It would be an exaggeration to suggest that Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is the focal point of this book. He…
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The Change Leader’s Road Map: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dean Anderson Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2010) “If you’ve always done it this way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering I recently read the Second Edition of…
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Equity How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives: Minal Bopaiah Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2021) How to design an organization for equity in a business world in which inequity continues to thrive In his classic work, Power: Why Some People Have It and…
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