Book Reviews
Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation Nicholas LaRusso, Barbara Spurrier, and Gianrico Farrugia McGraw-Hill (2014) How almost any organization can transform itself with high-impact innovation The success or failure…
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Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) Christian Rudder Crown (2014) Noah had his flood and it ended. Now we have ours and it will never end. To what does the title of this book refer? According…
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where and Why it Happens Benedict Carey Random House (2014) How to take full advantage of a host of techniques that deepen learning that remain largely unknown outside scientific circles As Benedict…
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload Daniel J. Levitin Dutton/The Penguin Group (2014) How to “recapture a sense of order and thereby regain the hours of time wasted by a disorganized mind” Clutter can full…
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Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It Ian Leslie Basic Books (2014) “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” Albert Einstein Strengthening observational skills is a worthy objective. However, if a person…
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The Innovator’s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to use the right tools to test, validate, and commercialize new ideas According to Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer,…
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The Wisdom of Oz: Using Personal Accountability to Succeed in Everything You Do Roger Connors and Tom Smith Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) Most limits are self-imposed: How to unleash the power of personal accountability to overcome the obstacles to your…
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George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger Sentinel/The Penguin Group (2013) How the bravery, cunning, near misses, and initiatives of the Culper Ring “helped save our nation and shape its…
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Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive Bruce Schneier John Wiley & Sons (2012) How social coercion can help to enable compliance and trust within a group, whatever its size may be As Bruce Schneier explains,…
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World Order Henry Kissinger Penguin Press (2014) A brilliant response to so many compelling questions about balance of power then, now, and in years to come I have read most of Henry Kissinger’s previously published books and reviewed several of…
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