Book Reviews
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.” Tim Brown This book is one of the more recent volumes in…
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Unstuck: Reframe your thinking to free yourself from the patterns and people that hold you back Lia Garvin Topix Media Lab (April 2022) “The real superpower is not the ability itself — it’s knowing when to use it.” Lia Garvin…
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Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business — and How to Fix It Malissa Clark Harvard Business Review Press (February 2024) How and why overworking usually results in underperforming Why did Malissa Clark write this…
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The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao St. Martin’s Press (January 2024) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors and Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Press (2013 Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers — and how to make better ones This is one in a series…
Read MoreTeam Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations Rich Karlgaard and Michael Malone HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2015) Not all teams can accomplish something great but they can be great One of Rich Karlgaard and Michael Malone’s key insights is…
Read MoreThe Magnetic Leader: How Irresistible Leaders Attract Employees, Customers, and Profits Roberta Chinsky Matuson Bibliomorion (March 2017) Why some people attract and retain followers but most don’t Opinions are divided about the importance of charisma to effective leadership. My own…
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Rise Above the Story; Free Yourself from Past Trauma and Create the Life You Want Karena Kilcoyne BenBella Books (2024) How to acknowledge the truth about yourself, embrace the strengths, and eliminate the weaknesses Here is Karena Kilcoyne’s first headnote,…
Read MoreThe Growth Advantage: A Business Blueprint for the Ultimate Competitive Advantage Bob Lisser Rowan & Littlefield (May 2022) Here’s the basic blueprint from an architect of organizational competitive advantages “To develop a Strategy Advantage, you need to maximize the following…
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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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