Book Reviews
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Public Affairs (January 2022) On “how the competition between popes and kings a thousand years ago led to Europe’s ‘exceptionalism.’” So, what is Bruce…
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Competing in the New World of Work: How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest Keith Ferrazzi with Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich Harvard Business Review Press (February 2022) “VUCA on steroids”: Here’s a blueprint for success based on…
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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book Carol J. Loomis Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett Note: I…
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Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact Annette Simmons AMACOM (May 2015) How to “lay the groundwork for using stories as credible tools” to “adjust the perceptions your stories…
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Nailing It: How History’s Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together Robert L. Dilenschneider Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp. (December 2021) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey According to Robert Dilenschneider, “This book tells the stories of twenty-five men and women…
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The Execution Factor: The One Skill That Drives Success Kim Perell McGraw-Hill Education (September 2018) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Leaders in any organization — whatever its size and nature may be — would be well-advised to keep…
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Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier Anish Batlaw and Ram Charan Ideapress Publishing (January 2022) How and why strategic talent management drives exceptional value creation Here’s this book’s basic concept: Ram Charan and Anish Batlaw examine “a methodology and practice that…
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Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter with Marissa Afton and Moses Mohan Harvard Business Review Press (January 2022) Alvin Toffler nailed it. “The illiterate of the 21st century,” Toffler observes…
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HBR Guide for Women at Work HBR Editors with Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2018) How to overcome unconscious biases that oppose women’s personal growth and professional development This is one of the volumes in a series of…
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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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