Book Reviews
Create the Future: Powerful Decision-Making Tools for Your Company and Yourself Rick Williams Amplify Publishing (September 2024) “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker is usually credited with this observation but it was probably…
Read MoreThe Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink, and Ramesh Srinivasan Portfolio/Penguin (September 2024) How to become a logical, practical, and humane leader The Journey of Leadership helps you…
Read MoreGetting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) Amy Gallo Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” I selected the African proverb to…
Read MoreLead Bigger: The Transformative Power of Inclusion Anne Chow Simon & Schuster (September 2024) How and why people-centric leadership adds much greater value to an organization’s success Anne Chow wrote this book to “introduce and advance the topic of bigger…
Read MoreDynamic Drive: The Purpose-Fueled Formula for Sustainable Success Molly Fletcher Hatchette (September 2024) How to accelerate your personal growth and professional development According to Molly Fletcher, “Dynamic Drive is the spark that ignites the joyful pursuit of a better life…It’s…
Read MoreCoaching for Performance: The principles and practice of coaching and leadership John Whitmore and Tiffany Gaskell John Murray Press (September 2024) How to collaborate on your and others’ personal growth and professional development This is the Sixth fully-updated edition of…
Read MoreThe Upside to Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown Terence Mauri Wiley (September 2024) How to juggle hand grenades while crossing a minefield, blindfolded, during an electrical storm In 1942, Joseph Schumpeter published his classic work,…
Read MoreHitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich Richard J. Evans Penguin Press (August 2024) A thorough analysis of what was “morally wrong about Nazism and the Third Reich” Richard J. Evans devotes Part I to an analysis of Adolph…
Read MoreThe Hive Mind at Work: Harnessing the Power of Group Intelligence to Create Meaningful and Lasting Change Siobhán McHale HarperCollins Leadership (September 2024) “That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.” Marcus Aurelius In…
Read MoreHabits of a Peace Maker: 10 Habits to Change Our Potentially Toxic Conversations into Healthy Dialogues Steven T. Collis Shadow Mountain Publishing (September 2024) How to find workable solutions through dialogue and conversation In the Epilogue, Steven Collis recalls Abraham…
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