Book Reviews
The Culture Turnaround: 9 Proven Ways to Create an Undeniable Culture Jeff Hilimire and Adam Albrecht Ripples Media (2022) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt This is the latest of…
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HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) How to communicate the plan, maintain momentum, and achieve your vision I agree with Thomas Edison who once observed, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Even the…
Read MoreThe Performance Paradox : Turning the Power of Mindset into Action Eduardo Briceño Ballantine Books (September 2023) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Presumably Eduardo Briceño agrees with Edison but would probably add that ambitious people spend too much…
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HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) How to see key issues differently, spark high-impact innovation, and solve tough problems As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide to”…
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You Get the Agency You Deserve: 20 Practical and Emotional Lessons to Maximize Your Agency and Partner Relationship , I suggest that Jared Belsky Ripples Media (August 2023) How to be an effective client for an agency or a services…
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Going on Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation Behnam Tabrizi Ideapress Publishing (August 2023) How to establish a workplace culture within which perpetual innovation is most likely to thrive In Rapid Transformation (2007), Behnam Tabrizi offers “a blueprint to…
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The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason The MIT Press (August 2023) A brilliant analysis of two abstractions that are increasingly shaping our lives According to Igor…
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Fort Mill: Images of America LeAnne Burnett Morse Arcadia Publishing (2015) A unique community for all seasons For more than 20 years Arcadia Publishing has reconnected people to their community, their neighbors, and their past by offering a curbside view…
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Stay Sane in an Insane World: How to Control the Controllables and Thrive Greg Harden Blackstone Publishing (August 2023) “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates In “The Making of an Expert,” an article that appeared in the July–August…
Read MoreAll Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive’s Journey to Living and Leading Authentically Jim Fielding Wiley (2023) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde The last time I checked, Amazon offers more than 60,000 volumes in which their authors…
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