Book Reviews
Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do About It Dave Ulrich, David Kryscynski, Mike Ulrich, and Wayne Brockbank McGraw-Hill Pearson (April 2017) “If you want to go fast, go alone.…
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life James Lee McDonough W.W. Norton & Company (June 2016) “War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be…
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant Ronald C. White Random House (October 2016) A brilliant examination of a U.S. hero “from the inside out” As I often do, I read this book in combination with another, James Lee…
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Mind+Machine: A Decision Model for Optimizing and Implementing Analytics Marc Vollenweider John Wiley & Sons (November 2016) How the mind can collaborate with machines to achieve high-impact results, and, thereby create new capabilities that did not exist before. One of…
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We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie Noah Isenberg W.W. Norton & Company “Art is the recreation of the world after the heart’s desire.” Havelock Ellis As I often do, I read this…
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Fast/Forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future Julian Birkinshaw and Jonas Ridderstråle Stanford Business Books/Stanford University Press (April 2017) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith Goldsmith’s insight serves as the title of one of his…
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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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