Book Reviews
Never Be Closing: How to Sell Better Without Screwing Your Clients, Your Colleagues, or Yourself Tim Hurson and Tim Dunne Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) How and why “Productive Thinking” can accelerate personal growth and professional development In the film version…
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The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers Bill Conaty and Ram Charan Crown Business (2010) How to develop “robust talent pipelines and same-day succession plans” I agree with Bill Conaty and Ram Charan that Steve Jobs is…
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Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution Thomas P. Slaughter Hill & Wang/A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014) A comprehensive response to John Adams’ question, “What do we mean by revolution?” The question posed by Adams in…
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A Literary Education and Other Essays Joseph Epstein Axios Press (2014) Compelling, eloquent evidence of one writer’s education: “First reality, then ideas” I have read most of Joseph Epstein’s collections of essays dating back to Divorced in America: Marriage in…
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Using Experience to Develop Leadership Talent: How Organizations Leverage On-the-Job Development Cynthia McCauley and Morgan McCall, Co-Editors Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) How and why knowledge shared with others can have almost incalculable value to everyone involved This is a substantial…
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A Little History of Literature John Sutherland Yale University Press (2013) Brilliant perspectives on a wealth of (mostly British) authors and their works Since childhood, I have cherished books as “magic carpets” by which to visit human experiences that would…
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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street John Brooks Open Road Integrated Media (2014) Millions will rush to purchase a copy but how many will actually read it and then apply what they learn? Here is…
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance Josh Waitzkin Free Press/Simon & Schuster (2007) One man’s “inner journey” to achieve his own optimal performance It is important to keep in mind that the material in this book…
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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Belfer Center Studies in International Security) Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill, with Ali Wyne The MIT Press (2013) Unique and invaluable perspectives on global…
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American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America Edmund S. Morgan W.W. Norton & Company (2009) No one but Edmund Morgan has in our own time “known so well the materials of New England history during the…
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