Book Reviews
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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How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built Peter H. Kim Flatiron Books (August 2023) How to gain trust, how it can be damaged, and what can be done to repair it According to W.K. Krueger, “in all…
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The Boldly Inclusive Leader: Transform Your Workplace (and the World) by Valuing the Differences Within Minette Norman Brain Trust Inc, (2023) The power oƒ valuing, indeed embracing and celebrating the differences between and among a workforce It is no coincidence that…
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MoneyZen: The Secret to Finding Your “Enough” Manisha Thakor HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (August 2023) If you are ensnared in the Cult of Never Enough, here’s how to extract yourself. Why did Manisha Thakor write this book? Her response: “MoneyZen…
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