Book Reviews
The Includers:The 7 Traits of Culturally Savvy, Anti-Racist Leaders Colette A.M. Phillips BenBella Books (January 2024) How to create a workplace within which cultural intelligence is most likely to thrive Major surveys of customers and employees indicate that feeling appreciated…
Read More
Possible: How to Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict William Ury HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (February 2024) How and why “the path to possible is how we survive — and thrive — in this age of conflict”…
Read More
The 12-Week MBA: Learn the Skills You Need to Lead in Business Today Bjorn Billhardt and Nathan Kracklauer Hatchette Books (February 2024) How to accelerate your personal growth and professional development Whatever their size and nature may be, all organizations…
Read More
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.” Tim Brown This book is one of the more recent volumes in…
Read More
Unstuck: Reframe your thinking to free yourself from the patterns and people that hold you back Lia Garvin Topix Media Lab (April 2022) “The real superpower is not the ability itself — it’s knowing when to use it.” Lia Garvin…
Read More
Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business — and How to Fix It Malissa Clark Harvard Business Review Press (February 2024) How and why overworking usually results in underperforming Why did Malissa Clark write this…
Read More
The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao St. Martin’s Press (January 2024) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what…
Read More
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors and Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Press (2013 Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers — and how to make better ones This is one in a series…
Read MoreTeam Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations Rich Karlgaard and Michael Malone HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2015) Not all teams can accomplish something great but they can be great One of Rich Karlgaard and Michael Malone’s key insights is…
Read MoreThe Magnetic Leader: How Irresistible Leaders Attract Employees, Customers, and Profits Roberta Chinsky Matuson Bibliomorion (March 2017) Why some people attract and retain followers but most don’t Opinions are divided about the importance of charisma to effective leadership. My own…
Read More