Book Reviews
Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process Andy Molinsky Harvard Business Review Press (2013) The Power of Behavior Modification Based on Values-Driven Cross-Cultural Management As I began to read this book, I…
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Success Under Stress: Powerful Tools for Staying Calm, Confident, and Productive When the Pressure’s On Sharon Melnick AMACOM (2013) How to avoid or overcome self-defeating barriers to success…including those that are self-imposed Walt Kelly’s possum, Pogo, once observed, “We have…
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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life Peter Gray Basic Books/The Perseus Group (2013) How and why new insights concerning children’s learning environment can help them…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Innovation Various Contributors with Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it.” Fond as I am of…
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain John Ratey with Eric Hagerman Little, Brown and Company (2008) Note: I recently re-read this book while working on a review of another book. In my opinion, the information, insights,…
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BrandingPays: The Five-Step System to Reinvent Your Personal Brand Karen Kang BrandingPays Media (2013) How to create or increase demand for the authentic value you offer For hundreds of years, people have branded their livestock for identification purposes. Samuel Augustus…
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Steven Johnson Riverhead Press/Penguin Group (2006) The Paradox of Water: It’s both the problem and (no pun intended) the solution The…
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Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift Ram Charan Crown Business (February 2013) For leaders in global companies, here are a compass, GPS, searchlight, x-ray machine, and microscope to find their way I have read and…
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The AIG Story Maurice R. Greenberg and Lawrence Cunningham John Wiley & Sons (2013) A “story” whose complexity defies pure objectivity but one that comes about as close as one could to explaining what happened Although two co-authors are identified,…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Teams Various Contributors with Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Most teams self-destruct. Don’t let that happen to yours. This is one in a series of anthologies of individual articles that…
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