Book Reviews
50 Politics Classics: Freedom Equality Power: Mind-Changing, World-Changing Ideas from Fifty Landmark Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2015) “The world is a dangerous place to live…because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein Actually, the…
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Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011) Why I think this is one of the most important books published during the past decade Given the number and quality of the reviews of this book that have…
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Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life Hal Gregersen Harper Business (November 2018) If you want better answers, you must ask better questions In his predictably brilliant Foreword, Ed Catmull asks:…
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The Power of Closure: Why We Want It, How to Get It, nd When to Walk Away Gary McClain TarcherPerigee/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (July 2024) How to seek closure while treating both yourself and others with kindness and…
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A Chance Meeting: American Encounters Rachel Carson NYRB Classics (March 2024) What if? At some point, Rachel Cohen must have asked herself, “What if I were a fly on the wall” when two or three American writers or artists were…
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall St. Martin’s Press (March 2019) If an idea doesn’t sound loony, it probably needs much more development…and protection. In this compellingly entertaining as…
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Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier Anish Batlaw and Ram Charan Ideapress Publishing (January 2022) How and why strategic talent management drives exceptional value creation Here’s this book’s basic concept: Ram Charan and Anish Batlaw examine “a methodology and practice that…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance Various Contributors and HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle’s insight refers to organizations as well…
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Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons Jessica Chen Portfolio/Penguin (July 2024) How to reframe Quiet Culture values in order to get noticed for the right reasons According to Jessica Chen, we are…
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Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future Mike Maples Jr. and Peter Ziebelman PublicAffairs (July 2024) “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo the Possum Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman agree. They created this book in…
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