Book Reviews
Bring Your Human to Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That Is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World Erica Keswin McGraw-Hill Pearson (September 2018) “People don’t care how much you know until they know how…
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I Can Learn From You: Boys as Relational Learners Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley Harvard Education Press (2014) How to forge and manage “mutually respectful, purposeful relationships with [most] students Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley wrote this book in order…
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The Power of Creativity: A Three-Part Series for Writers, Artists, Musicians and Anyone In Search of Great Ideas Bryan Collins Independently Published (Second Edition, 2018) “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein Long…
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What Anyone Can Do: How Surrounding Yourself with the Right People Will Drive Change, Opportunity, and Personal Growth Leo Bottary Bibliomotion/Taylor & Francis (August 2018) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go…
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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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