Book Reviews
Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court Damon Root Palgrave Macmillan Trade (November 4, 2014) A brilliant analysis of “two compelling visions” of “what the role of the government and the courts should play in our…
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The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne Simon & Schuster (2015) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” — Peter…
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Why Homer Matters Adam Nicolson Henry Holt (2014) “We don’t read great books. They read us.” George Steiner Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Shakespeare, Dante, and other great authors matter because their great works serve as magic carpets that transport us back…
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A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations into Advantages, and Why it’s Everyone’s Business Adam Morgan and Mark Barden John Wiley & Sons (2015) “Here is the central paradox of a constraint: it can be both a limitation and…
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Designing the Purposeful Organization: How to Inspire Business Performance Beyond Boundaries Clive Wilson KoganPage (2015) Are you helping to build a “cathedral”? As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of the ancient insight, “If you don’t…
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Seven Disciplines of a Leader: How to Help Your People, Team, and Organization Achieve Maximum Effectiveness Jeff Wolf with Ken Shelton John Wiley & Sons (2015) How and why some leaders have high-impact and so many others don’t Another book…
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans Malcolm Gaskill Basic Books/A Member of the Perseus Book Group (2014) A unique process of natural selection in the New World that led to independence from the Old World It is probably…
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Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (2015) How and why the LeanModel Framework can be “a rocket ship for entrepreneurs” As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of…
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Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together Hardcover William Isaacs Crown Business (September 1999) The Power of Interactive Humanity Note: I posted the review that follows 14 years ago and recently re-read the book while preparing to review Critical Knowledge Transfer:…
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If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice Carla O’Dell and C. Jackson Grayson Free Press (2012, Paperbound Edition) The Invisibility of the Obvious Note: I posted the review that follows 14 years…
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