Book Reviews
The Stoic Capitalist: Advice for the Exceptionally Ambitious, Robert Rosenkrantz Bloomsbury (May 2025) How to free yourself for yourself To “free yourself from yourself” means to break free from limiting self-beliefs, attachments, and behaviors that hinder personal growth and happiness.…
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The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation Prithwiraj Choudhury Harvard Business Review Press (April 2025) “The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.” W. Edwards Deming Wherever you…
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The Sweaty Startup: How to Get Rich Doing Boring Things Nick Huber HarperBusiness (April 2025) Do you have what it takes to build your own business? Nick Huber wrote this book to help as many people as possible to answer…
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Seeing Around Corners: C-Suite Wisdom from America’s Most Insightful Leaders Ken Banta Post Hill Press (April 2025) Two ears, two eyes, one mouth: Listen and observe at least 80% of the time The title of this review was derived from…
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The Psychology of Leadership: Timeless Principles to Improve Your Management of Individuals, Teams…and Yourself Sébastien Page Harriman House (April 2025) Channeling Henry Ford: Whether you think you can become a high-impact leader or think you can’t, you’re probably right. According…
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There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift Kevin Evers Harvard Business Review Press (April 2025) Here’s a “chronological romp” through Taylor Swift’s incomparable career thus far To what does “this” refer in the title of Kevin Evers’s…
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Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters: The Science Behind Employee Happiness and Organizational Performance Jean-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward Harvard Business Review Press (March 2025) “How to establish and then sustain a shared sense of wellbeing in our workplace culture?” That’s…
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Character: Life Lessons in Courage, Integrity, and Leadership Robert L. Dilenschneider Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Group (March 2025) “An ideal world would be one in which everyone gets to be all they can be.” Mitzi Perdue That’s Mitzi Perdue’s answer to…
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Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection Christian Van Nieuwerburgh and Robert Biswas-Diener Berrett-Koehler Publishers (March 2025) “There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.” Simon Sinek Long ago, I realized that because I have…
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The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth Chris Zook and James Allen Harvard Business Review Press (June 2016) How to avoid or resolve three organizational crises that can occur after start-up and early-growth phases In 1865,…
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