Book Reviews
Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes Margaret Heffernan TED Books/Simon & Schuster (2015) The “paradox of organizational culture”: it makes a big difference although comprised of small actions, habits, and choices. I have read and reviewed all of…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2015: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Editors Harvard Business Review Press (2015) Here’s an abundance of cutting-edge thinking to help business leaders solve today’s critical challenges Harvard…
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Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, and Janmejava Sinha Harvard Business Review Press (2015) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” — Michael Porter Porter’s comment…
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015) How and why a small, informal discussion group is viewed today as “a…
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I am now in the process of reading The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland, written by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and published by Belknap Press (June 2015). This study of the queasy relationship between Lewis Carroll…
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God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican Gerald Posner Simon & Schuster 2015) A brilliant analysis of “the inexorable quest for power that is tied to the pursuit of money” in the Roman Catholic Church According…
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World Rachel Swaby B/D/W/Y: Broadway Books (2015) “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller Do you already know that, during the last 100 years or so, many of the most…
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The Management Century Stuart Crainer Jossey-Bass/Wiley Imprint (2000) A brilliant survey of cutting-edge business thinking in the 20th century Note: I reviewed this book when it was published in 2000 and recently re-read it in preparation to read and then…
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Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early VANITY FAIR Edited by Graydon Carter with David Friend Penguin Press (2014) Yes, Virginia, there really is a machine in which you can return in time to the United States: 1913-193…
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BIG DATA: Using SMART Big Data, Analytics and Metrics To Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance Bernard Marr John Wiley & Sons (2015) How and why SMART decisions are based on SMART analytics Much of what I know about “big…
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