Book Reviews
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads Tim Wu Alfred A. Knopf /Penguin Random House (2016) How and why “attention makers” have converted our attention into revenue “and radically shape how our lives are lived” As…
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High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic Glenn Frankel Bloomsbury (February 2017) Hunting witches in Hollywood: 1945-1960 As I often do, I read this book in combination with another, in this instance Noah Isenberg’s We’ll…
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The Social Life of Information John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid Harvard Business Review Press (March 2017) How and why “the ability of information and its technologies [continue] to change the social world for the better” This is an updated…
Read MoreDual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business While Creating the Future Scott D. Anthony, Clark G. Gilbert, and Mark W. Johnson Harvard Business Review Press (April 2017) How and why combining the assets and benefits of scale and entrepreneurial spirit…
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Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China’s Great Global Companies Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, Neng Liang, and Peter Cappelli PublicAffairs/Imprint of Perseus Books (March 2017) How China has used capitalism to pull 600 million people out of poverty and will soon…
Read MoreHBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict Amy Gallo Harvard Business Review Press (April 2017) Cutting-edge thinking about the common sources of conflict, how people approach it differently, and how to resolve it Most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide…
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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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