Book Reviews
The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern PublicAffairs (June 6, 2017 The Ultimate Collaboration on “the other side of complexity” Up front, I share a response to this book’s subtitle:…
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By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 Michael Green Columbia University Press (2017) Why and how — throughout its history — the U.S. has had to secure its position in the Asia…
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Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win Chris Kuenne and John Danner Harvard Business Review Press (June 2017) If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go…
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Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead Kenneth Gronbach with M.J. Moye AMACOM (Apfil 2017) How to identify and then pursue effectively any/all upside opportunities that result from shifting demographics In this volume, Kenneth Gronbach explains that, in general,…
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METASKILLS: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related…
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Choose Resilience: Break Out of Your Comfort Zone Using the Power of Emotional Intelligence Jen Shirkani Shirkani LLC (May 2017) The MOST Model of Resilience: How to accelerate personal growth and professional development It may be a matter of semantics…
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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes Pantheon/An imprint of Penguin Random House (March 2017) “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” Erasmus The observation…
Read MoreGood Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard Rumelt Crown Business (2011) How and why a good strategy “acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcome them As the title of this review correctly indicates,…
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Friction: How Passion Brands Are Built in the Age of Digital Distribution Jeff Rosenblum and Jordan Berg Powerhouse Books (May 2017) Example of positive friction: You can’t sharpen a sword blade on velvet Friction can be either positive as the…
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50 Economics Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishers (May 2017) An intelligent person’s guide to cutting-edge thinking about economics since 1776 As Tom Butler-Bowdon explains in…
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