Book Reviews
HBR 10 Must-Reads on Change Management Various Contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to overcome “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” This volume is one of several in a series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared…
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Mindshift: Transform Leadership, Drive Innovation, and Shape the Future Brian Solis Wiley (October 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering James O’Toole has suggested that the strongest resistance to change tends to be cultural…
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FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions Perry Carpenter Wiley (October 2024) How human and artificial intelligence — working together– can produce transformative results In the Foreword, Rachel Tobac helps to”set the…
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HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) “We did what all wise men do. We began at the end.” Menachem Begin Prime Minister Begin’s comment was his response when asked how he and President Anwar…
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The Skills-Powered Organization: The Journey to the Next Generation Enterprise Ravin Jesuthasan and Tanuj Kapilshrami The MIT Press (October 2024) Work frameworks that organizations now need…but most do not have According to Ravin Jesuthasan and Tanuj Kapilshrami, “This book will…
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Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together Michael Morris Thesis Penguin/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (October 2024) They’re not one of us and thus a potential threat, if not an enemy Long ago,…
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The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building a Better Business by Thinking Outside the Box Erin Wade Wiley (September 2024) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford Why did Erin Wade write The Mac…
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A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business Hartmut Esslinger Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs Throughout the years since…
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Restoring Our Sanity Online: A Revolutionary Social Framework Mark Weinstein Wiley (September 2024) How and why “Big Tech is driving us, our kids, and society mad.” Mark Weinstein asserts that “the current genre of social media is a far cry…
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The Silent Rebellion: Becoming a Modern Leader Chris Lewis and Inez Robinson-Odom Kogan Page (September 2024) “People may not get all they work for, but they must work for all they get.” Frederick Douglass In 1970 (in his classic…
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