Book Reviews
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way Kieran Setiya Riverhead Books (October 2022) “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire Nowhere in this volume does Kieran Setiya claim or…
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Powered by People: How Talent-Centric Organizations Master Recruitment, Retention, and Revenue (and How to Build One) Carol Schultz Story Chorus (June 2022) Here’s a blueprint for establishing and then strengthening a talent-centric organization I agreed with Carol Schultz: Whatever their…
Read MoreCEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra Scribner (March 2022) How and why the best “playmakers” can — and do — write their own “playbook” As I…
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Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself Lynne Twist Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2022) Welcome to the Anthropocene: the era when humans are determining the future of the planet As Lynne Twist explains in…
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Deliberate Calm: How to Learn and Lead in a Volatile World Jacqueline Brassey, Aaron De Smet, and Michael Kruyt HarperBusiness (November 2022) How to juggle grenades, while walking through a minefield at midnight, during an electrical storm According to Jacqueline…
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Ignite a Shift: Engaging Minds, Guiding Emotions, and Driving Behavior Stephen McGarvey Morgan James Publishing (July 2022) The subtleties of persuasion that few people are of and even fewer understand According to Stephen McGarvey, those who read this book will “embark…
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams Stacy Schiff Little, Brown and Company (October 2022) A “wildly entertaining exploration” of the thirteen colonies’ “Machiavelli of liberty” This is among the most entertaining and most informative works of non-fiction that I have read in…
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention William Rosen Random House (2010) Note: In an article written for the Wall Street Journal (January 26, 2013), Bill Gates explains why he thinks this book…
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The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships with Their Jobs Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leitner Harvard Unversity Press (November 2022) The power and impact of a first-person PLURAL mindset For more than 30 years, I worked with the senior-level executives…
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The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation David Robertson with Kent Lineback Harvard Business Review Press (May 2017) Do innovators have only two choices: innovate small incrementally or innovate big disruptively? “There is another option.” At…
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