Book Reviews
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: 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: 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 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 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’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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METASKILLS: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) A brilliant examination of superior thinking by a superior thinker Note: There are a few books that I re-read at least once year because they have had such…
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall St. Martin’s Press (March 2019) If an idea doesn’t sound loony, it probably needs much more development…and protection. In this compellingly entertaining as…
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Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership Susan MacKenty Brady, Janet Foutty, and Lynn Perry Wooten McGraw Hill (April 2022) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith Susan MacKentry Brady, Janet Foutty, and Lynn…
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A One-Legged Stool: How Shareholder Primacy Has Broken Business (And What We Can Do About it) Ed Chambliss Best Friends Brand, LLC (March 2022) Useful insights and suggestions that help to get priorities in proper alignment The metaphors are obvious:…
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