Book Reviews
No Fear, No Failure: Five Principles for Sustaining Growth Through Innovation Lorraine H. Marchand, with John Hanc Columbia Business School Publishing (February 2026) Innovation must be an ongoing process, with day-to-day measurable impact, not an aspiration. With all due respect…
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Furious Minds: The Making of the New Right Laura K. Field Princeton University Press (November (2025) A thorough analysis of immensely complicated threats to traditional political values How and why has the current political situation in the United States become…
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Employee Experience Design: How to Co-Create Work Where People and Organizations Thrive Dean E. Carter, Samantha Gadd, and Mark Levy Wiley (January 2026) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Most of the companies annually ranked among those most highly…
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The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of Mind Tom Griffiths, Henry Holt and Company (February 2026) Finally, after three centuries, the previously untold “story” of how to understand our “internal world” Based on the preliminary research…
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Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy Misty L. Heggeness University of California Press (January 2026) How women can escape the confines that limit their economic fulfillment and personal independence Why did Misty Heggeness write Swiftynomics? Over several years,…
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The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires Sophie Pinkham W.W. Norton & Company (January 2026) In the relationship between nature and politics, “the forest can be loved and celebrated without recourse to nationalism.” “In…
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Governing Pandora: Leading in the Age of Generative AI and Exponential Technology Andrea Bonime-Blanc Georgetown University Press (February 2026) A complete “roap map” for navigating the new landscape of exponential technologies As you may alreadyknow, “Pandora’s Box” is a Greek…
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The Transformation Economy: Guiding Customers to Achieve Their Aspirations B. Joseph Pine III Harvard Business Review Press (February 2026) HOW continuous transformation can help you and all other stakeholders in your organization to thrive In their brilliant article for Harvard…
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The Attacker’s Advantage: Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities Ram Charan PublicAffairs (2015) This is the most valuable contribution to business thought leadership that Ram Charan has made…thus far. I have read and reviewed all of the books that Ram Charan…
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METASKILLS: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) Note: This is one of only a few books I re-read about this time every year since it was first published. Yes, it really is that valuable. In…
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