Book Reviews
How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life Caroline Webb Crown Business (2016) “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard I selected the…
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Integrated Thinking: The New IT Sue Pearson CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform/Amazon (2015) The potential power and impact of a new way of thinking in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous global marketplace Note: My review is of the second edition…
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The Clayton M. Christensen Reader Clayton M. Christensen and Various Co-Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2016) If you think disruption is a problem, try stagnation. The Harvard Business Review Press continues to publish anthologies of HBR articles that Amazon US…
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Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregory Perigee/An imprint of Penguin Random House (2016) A brilliant explanation of creativity as a habit, as a way of life, and as a style…
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Move Your Bus: An Extraordinary New Approach to Accelerating Success in Work and Life Ron Clark Touchstone/An imprint of Simon & Schuster (2015) How to accelerate “the relentless pursuit of excellence” and do so with people power Ron Clark’s use…
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Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World Christine L. Borgman MIT Press (2016) How and why “the value of data lies in their use.” The best business books such as this one are driven by scholarship,…
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What Works: Gender Equality by Design Iris Bohnet The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2016) How and why behavioral designers can help us to make much better decisions As Iris Bohnet explains, this book is the result of a…
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The Storyteller’s Secret: From Ted Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch on and Others Don’t Carmine Gallo St. Martin’s Press (2016) How and why “storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.” Carmine Gallo Carmine…
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Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age Bruce Watson Bloomsbury (2016) “For the rest of my life, I will reflect on what light is.” Albert Einstein As Bruce Watson explains, “The truth is that, despite three millennia…
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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley Eric Weiner Simon & Schuster (2016) How and why “certain places, at certain times, produce a bumper crop of brilliant minds and…
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