Book Reviews
Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons Lewis Schiff HarperBusiness (2013) Seven counterintuitive principles that can help you to achieve great success, however you define it According to Lewis Schiff, this book tells “the story of how…
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Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization Dan Pontefract Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to strengthen engagement, empowerment, and execution, then leverage them for a decisive competitive advantage In recent years, we have observed a tsunami of books, articles,…
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner Penguin Books (2012) How and why Bell Labs was once the most innovative scientific (and perhaps most commercial) organization in the world As I began to…
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Evgeny Morozov PublicAffairs/Perseus Books Group (2013) How and why the inefficiency of “solutionism” is compromising advanced technology I agree with Evgeny Morozov that a never-ending quest to ameliorate, what Tania…
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Make Your Brain Smarter: Increase Your Brain’s Creativity, Energy, and Focus Sandra Bond Chapman with Shelly Kirkland Free Press/A Simon & Schuster Imprint (2013) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle…
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50 Philosophy Classics: THINKING, BEING, ACTING, SEEING – Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2013) The study of philosophy has as its purpose to know…the truth about the ways things are.” Thomas…
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The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World Marina Gorbis Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why “we are infusing more and more of our economic transactions with social connectedness” Why did Marina Gorbis…
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Sparks of Genius: The 13 Thinking Tools Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Company (1999) A brilliant examination of “the whole point of gourmet thinking and education” I agree with Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein: “By half-understanding the nature of…
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The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet Ramez Naam University Press of New England (2013) How and why “the infinite power of ideas” can help the human race to manage finite natural resources I agree with…
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World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It John A. Byrne Portfolio/Penguin Group (2011) Exemplars of an opportunistic mindset and acceptance of risk and potential failure, as well as independence and control John A. Byrne is chairman…
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