Book Reviews
The 5% Rule of Leadership: Using Lean Decision-Making to Drive Trust, Ownership, and Team Productivity Anil K. Singhal Wiley (September 2024) How to build a great, enduring, and admirable enterprise According to my accumulation of notes (sources unknown), Lean was…
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Supercharging the Customer Experience: How Organizational Alignment Drives Performance Alan Williams & Dave Stubberfield LID Limited (November 2024) The unique power and enduring value of organizational alignment and coordinated execution throughout the given enterprise As I began to read this…
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom Oxford University Press (September 2014) This is what could be “the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced” Note: Ten years after publication, the insights in this book are even more…
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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler, and Stephen Friedrich von den Eichen The MIT Press (October 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go…
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How to Move Up When the Only Way is Down: Lessons from Artificial Intelligence for Overcoming Your Local Maximum Judah Taub Wiley (October 2024) The essence of decision-making and problem-solving in the Age of AI I agree with Jonathan Rosenfeld:…
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HBR 10 Must-Reads on Change Management Various Contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to overcome “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” This volume is one of several in a series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared…
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Mindshift: Transform Leadership, Drive Innovation, and Shape the Future Brian Solis Wiley (October 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering James O’Toole has suggested that the strongest resistance to change tends to be cultural…
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FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions Perry Carpenter Wiley (October 2024) How human and artificial intelligence — working together– can produce transformative results In the Foreword, Rachel Tobac helps to”set the…
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HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) “We did what all wise men do. We began at the end.” Menachem Begin Prime Minister Begin’s comment was his response when asked how he and President Anwar…
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The Skills-Powered Organization: The Journey to the Next Generation Enterprise Ravin Jesuthasan and Tanuj Kapilshrami The MIT Press (October 2024) Work frameworks that organizations now need…but most do not have According to Ravin Jesuthasan and Tanuj Kapilshrami, “This book will…
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