Book Reviews
The Purpose Code: How to Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave a Lasting Legacy Jordan Grumet Harriman House (January 2025) Here is a series of self-helpful prescriptions Long ago, I concluded that it is very difficult — if not impossible…
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Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload Richard C. Cytowic MIT Press (October 2024) The story of how and why we became “helplessly distracted” began long ago. Richard Cytowic is convinced that…
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Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can’t Win Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao Harvard Business Review Press (August 2024) The smart rival company’s road to success is paved with smart innovation Most of the counsel…
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Psychological Safety (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) Multiple Contributors in collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they cherish.” Voltaire This is one of the volumes in the HBR…
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Leading Through: Activating the Soul, Heart, and Mind of Leadership Kim B. Clark, Jonathan R. Clark, and Erin E. Clark Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering I was…
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Essays in Biography Joseph Epstein Axios Press (2012) The more we learn about others, it seems, the better we understand ourselves…at least sometimes I have read most of Joseph Epstein’s 13 collections of essays dating back to Divorced in America:…
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Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) Welcome to the era of generative AI, powered by foundation models This is an updated and expanded…
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Lead with We: The Business Revolution That Will Save Our Future Simon Mainwaring Matt Holt (November 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb The global business world is…
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From Intention to Impact: A Practical Guide to Diversity (comma) Equity (comma) and Inclusion, Malia C. Lazu MIT Press (February 2024) Good intentions with0ut high-impact engagement is essentially worthless. Opinions are divided — sometimes sharply divided — about the value…
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The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Development Eric Siegel MIT Press (February 2024) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Here in a single volume is probably what leaders of most organizations need to know about…
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