Book Reviews
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom Oxford University Press (2015) How to approach what could be “quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced” John H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term…
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Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion- Dollar Businesses E. Freya Williams AMA COM (2015) How and why purpose and profitability are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they tend to be interdependent. To what does the title of…
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High-Impact Human Capital Strategy: Addressing the 12 Major Challenges Today’s Organizations Face Jack J. Phillips and Patricia Pulliam Phillips AMACOM (2015) “It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not…
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Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter Alex Pentland Penguin Books (2014) How to increase our understanding of “the dynamics of human society, and hence our ability to plan for the future” Alex (“Sandy”) Pentland is among the…
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HBR Guide to Leading Teams Mary Shapiro Harvard Business Review Press (2015) “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams Most of the volumes in the…
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RFID Essentials Bill Glover and Himanshu Bhatt O’Reilly Media (2006) An electronic means by which to obtain information whenever needed and from wherever it is located and accessible As I began to read this book, published in 2006, I was…
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Discover Your True North (Expanded and Updated Edition) Bill George John Wiley & Sons (2015) “You are the author of your life”…for better or worse. This is an expanded and updated edition of many of the insights and counsel first…
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New Brand Leadership: Managing at the Intersection of Globalization, Localization and Personalization Larry Light and Joan Kiddon Pearson FT Press (2015) If someone asks you if your brand’s significance is global, local, or personal and your answer is “yes,” this…
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Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art Nico Israel Columbia University Press (2015) How and why the spiral may well be the defining image, symbol, and metaphor for the early-21st century What’s with spirals? According to Nico Israel,…
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