Book Reviews
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity Kim Scott St. Martin’s Press (March 2017) How strategic candor can help to “defy the quintessential pull of organizational mediocrity” For the title of my review, I selected a phrase…
Read MoreThe Leading Brain: Powerful Science-Based Strategies for Achieving Peak Performance Friederike Fabricius and Hands Hagemann TarcherPerigee/Penguin Random House (February 2017). Here are several science-based strategies that can drive peak performance Although by no means an authority in the multiple dimensions…
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The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack Portfolio/Penguin Random House (February 2017) How breakthrough thinking can accelerate personal growth and professional development Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack make…
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Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age Edward D. Hess and Katherine Ludwig Barrett-Koehler Publishers (January 2017) “NewSmart”: Excellence at the very highest levels of cognition and initiative What will be the percentage of…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (February 2017) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker This is the latest…
Read MoreSteven Spielberg: A Life in Films Molly Haskell Yale University Press (January 2017) “Everything about me is in my films.” Steven Spielberg There is substantial truth in Steven Spielberg’s observation, as Molly Haskell indicates in this brief but remarkably comprehensive…
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Authentic Negotiating: The Three Keys To True Negotiating Success & How To Achieve Them Corey Kupfer Advantage Media Group (January 2017) How to prepare for collaboration on reaching “fair and lasting” agreements…or walking away from those that won’t be The…
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The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation Frans Johansson Harvard Business Review Press (March 2017) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb This is…
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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (2016) How and why the mind-set of those best-informed in the seventeenth century transitioned so quickly from medieval to…
Read MoreExtreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail Robert Bruce Shaw AMACOM (January 2017) “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that…
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