Book Reviews
Job Architecture: Building a Language for Workforce Intelligence Ben Zweig Wiley (January 2026) How to make the right decisions with the best information about human capital In Job Architecture, Ben Zweig “shows the very real stakes when companies do not…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas H. Davenport and Randy Bean for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration…
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Nature’s Blueprint for Business: Harnessing the Hidden Power of Edges Ines Garcia Routledge/Taylor & French Group (September 2025) “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein Long ago, during my junior year in high school…
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There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift Kevin Evers Harvard Business Review Press (April 2025) Here’s a “chronological romp” through Taylor Swift’s incomparable career thus far To what does “this” refer in the title of Kevin Evers’s…
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Business Beyond Borders: Stories, Tales and Lessons Learned from Working in 1oo Cultures Around the World Dean Foster John Murray Business Press (2025) Reliable guidance for strangers in a strange land Business beyond as well as well as within borders…
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Hyper-Digital Marketing: Six Pillars of Strategic Brand Marketing in an AI-Powered World Vanitha Samination Palgrave (October 2025) How to cultivate customer attention, resonance, trust, friendship, and engagement in the new marketplace According to Vanitha Saminathan, Hyper Digital Marketing “aims to…
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Stephen Greenblatt W.W. Norton (2004) An “amzing success story that has resisted explanation”…until now Thus far, I have read and reviewed several dozen biographies of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and this is by…
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The Octopus Organization: A Guide to Thriving in a World of Continuous Transformation Phil Lel-Brun and Ana Werner Harvard Business Review Press (December 2025) “Everything changes, nothing changes.” Heraclitus (c. 500 BC) How can both organizations and individuals thrive “in…
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Here is an excerpt from Jennifer Szalai’s review of Furious Minds for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit…Ben Denzer * *…
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Winning the Right Game: How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World Ron Adner The MIT Press (October 2021) How to understand the implications of change in order to manage the disruption it creates In my opinion, there…
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