Book Reviews

Human + Machine: A book review by Bob Morris

May 4, 2022

Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI Paul Daugherty and James Wilson Harvard Business Review Press (March 2018) Here is a roadmap for understanding and navigating the AI revolution According to Paul Daugherty and James Wilson, “the…

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Access Rules: A book review by Bob Morris

May 3, 2022

Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge University of California Press (April 2022) How and why access to information is the foundation of democratic decision-making Years ago, Eppie Lederer suggested, “If…

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Radically Human: A book review by Bob Morris

May 2, 2022

Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future Paul R. Daugherty and H.James Wilson Harvard Business Review Press (April 2022) What could well prove to be “the most radically human hope for the future” In their…

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Make No Small Plans: A book review by Bob Morris

April 29, 2022

Make No Small Plans: Lessons from Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building CommunityElliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal, and Jeremy Schwartz Currency (April 2022) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford I wonder…

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Love + Work: A book review by Bob Morris

April 28, 2022

Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life Marcus Buckingham Harvard Business Review Press (April 2022) How to create “a more powerful, more authentic, and more…

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Anti-Racist Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

April 28, 2022

Anti-Racist Leadership: How to Transform Corporate Culture in a Race-Conscious World James D. White with Krista White Harvard Business Review Press (March 2022) “If not us, who? If not now, when?” Hillel the Elder As you may already know, the…

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The Dragonfly Effect: A book review by Bob Morris

April 26, 2022

The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith with Carlye Adler Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2010) The “secret sauce” of a high-impact narrative In this book written with…

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The Undoing Project: A book review by Bob Morris

April 25, 2022

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis W.W. Norton & Company (2016) A brilliant analysis of how two world-famous psychologists could – and did — “undo” so many misconceptions about human error I have read and…

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Dante: A book review by Bob Morris

April 24, 2022

Dante John Took Princeton University Press (December 2021) Here is an invitation to the feast that is the Commedia…and to the life of he who created it Disclaimer: I am a non-scholar in the field of Italian literature and am…

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HBR 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

April 21, 2022

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 most recent volumes in…

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