Book Reviews
Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector William F. Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker Stanford University Press (2018) Here’s a “common language, a new way of thinking, and a clear approach” for non-profit leadership Over…
Read MoreThe Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Get Done Stephen Denning AMACOM (February 2018) How and why “organizations are connecting everyone and everything, everywhere, all the time” and what that means I cannot recall a…
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Bigger Than This: How to turn any venture into an admired brand Fabian Geyrhalter Brandtro Publishing (January 2018) “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you…
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Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More Morten Hansen Simon & Schuster (January 2018) How and why “seven practices upend conventional thinking about how you should work” Note: Every so often, I recycle a…
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Herding Tigers: Be the Leader That Creative People Need (1/16/18) Todd Henry Portfolio/Penguin (January 2018) How to become a leader who “makes echoes” As I began to read this thoughtful and thought-provoking book, I was again reminded of several of…
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Don’t Pay for Your MBA: The Faster, Cheaper, Better Way to Get the Business Education You Need Laurie Packard AMACOM (October 2017) “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who…
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World A.J. Baime Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 2017) An ordinary man who taught the people, as one of them, “that their greatness was in themselves” In his…
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The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier’s Eye View, France 1944 George Blackburn McClelland & Stewart (1995) One Warrior’s Perspectives at Ground Zero in 1944 Very few of us in the United States are fully aware — much less fully appreciative…
Read MoreThe Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace David Woolner Basic Books (December 2017) At long last, a much more complete “intimate view of FDR’s last months” Consider what was accomplished under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s leadership during the…
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The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality Paul Halpern Basic Books (October 2017) A brilliant analysis of two “explorers of the extraordinary possibilities in physics” This book was written so that non-scientists such as…
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