Book Reviews
The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money Elizabeth Husserl New World Library (January 2025) How to embrace wealth as an experience of joy Elizabeth Husserl describes this book as “an invitation to explore a new possibility…
Read MoreMindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior Sandra Matz Harvard Business Review Press (January 2025) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford How does Sandra Matz organize the information,…
Read MoreLeadership as Masterpiece Creation: What Business Leaders Can Learn About Moral-Risk Taking Charles Spinosa, Matthew Hancocks, and Haridimos Tsoukas MIT Press (March 2024) How leaders can decide which moral personality they want their organization to have In the Inferno section…
Read MoreThe Purpose Code: How to Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave a Lasting Legacy Jordan Grumet Harriman House (January 2025) Here is a series of self-helpful prescriptions Long ago, I concluded that it is very difficult — if not impossible…
Read MoreYour Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload Richard C. Cytowic MIT Press (October 2024) The story of how and why we became “helplessly distracted” began long ago. Richard Cytowic is convinced that…
Read MorePsychological Safety (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) Multiple Contributors in collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they cherish.” Voltaire This is one of the volumes in the HBR…
Read MoreLeading Through: Activating the Soul, Heart, and Mind of Leadership Kim B. Clark, Jonathan R. Clark, and Erin E. Clark Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering I was…
Read MoreEssays in Biography Joseph Epstein Axios Press (2012) The more we learn about others, it seems, the better we understand ourselves…at least sometimes I have read most of Joseph Epstein’s 13 collections of essays dating back to Divorced in America:…
Read MoreHuman + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) Welcome to the era of generative AI, powered by foundation models This is an updated and expanded…
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