Book Reviews
Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice Catherine Truss, Rick Delbridge, Kerstin Alfes, Amanda Shantz, and Emma Sloane, Co-Editors Routledge /Taylor & French Group (2014) Diverse perspectives on employee engagement and the practical implications of emerging engagement theories What we have…
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Gamify: How Gamification Motivates People to Do Extraordinary Things Brian Burke Bibliomotion (2014) How and why focusing on gamification can help organizations to motivate their people to achieve shared goals I was introduced to game theory when I enrolled in…
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2014) How and why mastering the economic approach will produce better answers to questions…
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Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together Pamela Slim Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2013) Why we must strive to “direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our…
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Humans of New York Brandon Stanton St. Martin’s Press (2013) Images of a city unlike any other in combination with the essence of those who live there Brandon Stanton dedicated this book to the City of New York, observing “I…
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Infinite Reality: The Hidden Blueprint of Our Virtual Lives Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson William Morrow/An Imprint of HaroerCollins (2011) How and why virtual reality is changing human nature, societies and cultures as we know them…for better or worse According…
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A Culture of Purpose: How to Choose the Right People and Make the Right People Choose You Christoph Lueneburger Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) A brilliant analysis of perhaps the single most important dimension of organizational alignment Accord to Jim Collins…
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The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How and why the human sciences address “the reality of people’s lives at their most complex…and…
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The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World Aaron Hurst Elevate/A Russell Media Company (2014) A rigorous examination of the key levers that can be used to advance the evolution of markets…
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Malcolm Gladwell on Think Like a Freak
In one of the many wonderful moments in Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain , Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner ask the question: “Who is easier to fool—kids or adults?” The obvious answer,…
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