Book Reviews
Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 Agnès Poirier Henry Holt and Company (February 2018) It was the brightest of times, it was the darkest of times: Two tales of “The City of Lights” The material examines Paris…
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Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work Vijay Govindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti Harvard Business Review Press (July 2018) “Be the change that you wish to see in the world” Mohandas Gandhi In Reverse Innovation (2012), Vijay Govindarajan and Chris…
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Vicksburg: The Bloody Siege That Turned the Tide of the Civil War Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. Regnery History (June 2018)) Why Vicksburg was essential to winning the Civil War Briefly, in May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S.…
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HBR Guide to Being More Productive Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (July 2017) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker Most of the volumes in…
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Transforming the Clunky Organization: Pragmatic Leadership Skills for Breaking Inertia Samuel B. Bacharach Published in Association with Cornell University Press (July 2018) “Sacred cows make the best burgers” Robert Kriegel In one of the most valuable business books written in…
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It’s All About the Fit: A Practical Guide to Hiring an Executive Who Will Increase Your Company’s Value Lynton Edwards New Insights Press Here’s a process that will help companies to locate, attract, hire, and retain “Value Builders” Whatever their…
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The Ideal of Culture: Essays Joseph Epstein Axios Press (May 2018) “When I get a little money, I buy books. If I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” Desiderius Erasmus This is the fourth in a series of…
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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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