Book Reviews
Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance Jason Selk McGraw-Hill 2012) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford I share Jason Selk’s high regard for John Wooden, arguably the greatest…
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The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield PLUME/The Penguin Group “How do you do what you do?” Initially, I was eager to read this book…
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Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence: Selected Writings Daniel Goleman More Than Sound (2011) How leaders can “help people to get and stay in the brain zone [flow] where they can work at their Best” What we have in this…
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a fine line: how design strategies are shaping the future of business Hartmut Esslinger Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) Throughout the years since Hartmut Esslinger founded frog design (one of the world’s leading strategic design firms), having learned firsthand how truly…
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Resonant Leadership: Inspiring Others Through Emotional Intelligence Richard Boyatzis More Than Sound (2009) How to renew yourself and connect with others through mindfulness, hope, and compassion As I began to listen to the first of three CDs that comprise this…
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The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance David Gebler Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How to meet the challenge of keeping organizational constants and variables in proper alignment In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests…
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention William Rosen Random House (2010) Note: In an article written for the Wall Street Journal (January 26, 2013), Bill Gates explains why he thinks this book…
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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova Viking/The Penguin Group (2013) How the Science of Deduction and Analysis can make sense of “a pink elephant world” Frankly, I have never read another book quite like the one Maria…
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Yale University Press (2009) “How do we understand the world, if there are different versions of it to reconcile?” Note: The terms “master” and “emissary” as well as their correlations…
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The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism Robert William Fogel University of Chicago Press (August 1, 2000) Note: I read this book when it was first published more than a decade ago and recently re-read it while preparing interview questions. For those such…
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