Book Reviews
The Science of Leadership: Nine Ways to Expand Your Impact Jeffrey Hull and Margaret Moore Berrett-Koehler Publishers (July 2025) The art and science of developing high-impact leaders Whatever its size and nature may be, every organization needs high-impact leaders at…
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI Ray Kurzweil Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2024) We are “on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.” I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s…
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Rebooting Tech Culture; How to Ignite Innovation and Build Organizations Where Everyone Can Thrive Telle Whitney Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) Employees rank “feeling appreciated” of greatest importance to them. I wholly agree with Telle Whitney about the importance…
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The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray Steve Sloman The MIT Press (May 2025) How and why decisions based on deepest values can sometimes lead us astray Steve Sloman explains how the mind works and how…
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The Activator Advantage: What Today’s Rainmakers Do Differently Matthew Dixon, Rory Channer, Karen Fredeman, and Ted McKenna Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) Here is a new approach to business development that is “altogether unique and undeniably more effective” As…
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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom Matt Ridley Harper (May 2020) “Innovation offers the carrot of spectacular reward or the stick of destitution.” Joseph Schumpeter In the Introduction to his brilliant book, Matt Ridley cites a concept…
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Gratitude Tiger: Creating Joy Through the Art of Impactful Letters Joel Zuckerman Greenleaf Book Group Press (April 2025) “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward As Ward’s observation correctly…
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The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance Zach Mercurio Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) “Always assume that people around you feel unseen, undervalued, and lonely — and act accordingly.” According to Zach Mercurio, “If…
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Another Way: Building Companies That Last…and Last…and Last Dave Whorton with Bo Burlington Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) A brilliant analysis of “underappreciated and undersupported” values-driven companies In a book written with the invaluable assistance of Bo Burlingham (author…
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Wicked Problems: What Can We Do In This Time of Collapse? Christian Sarkar and Philip Kotler Idea Bite Press (March 2025) If the world’s worst problems are interconnected, then their solutions must also be interconnected. According to Phil Kotler, “This…
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