Book Reviews
Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence Jack Kelly Palgrave Macmillan (2014) A brilliant analysis of the “founding amateur warriors” who contributed so much to winning America’s independence Whenever appropriate, I read two or three books in…
Read More
The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzpatrick Portfolio/Penguin Group (2014) How and why mastery of the art and science of social media can rock the world Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzpatrick have…
Read More
Rise To The Top: How Women Leverage Their Professional Persona to Earn More Stacey Hawley Career Press (2015) How to manage the power of others’ perceptions to achieve the given career objectives Authors of books such as this one often…
Read More
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World Edward Dolnick Harper Perennial (2011) A compelling account of “a group of scientists who set out to read God’s mind” and what they learned Authors…
Read More
People Tools for Business Alan Fox SelectBooks (2014) “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” Yogi Berra Here are 50 strategies (“hammers”) that can drive initiatives (“tactics”) to help individuals as well as…
Read More
Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it) Salim Ismail with Michael S. Malone and Yuri van Geest Diversion Books (2014) How and why the exponential organization (ExO)…
Read More
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism Wheeler Publishing Doris Kearns Goodwin Thorndike Press (2013) To borrow a phrase from Carl Sandburg, here are U.S. politics journalism during the Golden Age “with the…
Read More
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior Stephen Brumwell Quercus (2013) “I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.” Robert Frost George Washington: Gentleman…
Read More
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames Margaret MacDonald and Patricia de Montford Philip Wilson Publishers (2013) A brilliant examination of a great artist, his major works, and his unique relationships with London and the Thames Until recently, I…
Read More
A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness Joseph A. Maciariello HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (2014) How would you like to have Peter Drucker as your personal advisor for the next twelve months? What we have…
Read More