Book Reviews
Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn Portfolio/Penguin ( “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering There are several metrics that matter but the one to which this book’s subtitle…
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On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation Kim Samuel Abrams Press (September 2022) You are large, you contain multitudes…just like everyone else. The title of this brief commentary channels a reassurance from Walt Whitman in “Song of Myself.”…
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How to Lead Your Family Business: Excelling Through Unexpected Crises, Choices, and Challenges Julie Charlestein Matt Holt/An Imprint of Bella Books (February 2023) Timely and timeless advice that is practical, principled, and results-driven For about 20 years, I worked closely…
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Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work Uri Gneezy Yale University Press (2023) A brilliant analysis of “the interaction of important agendas” Many years ago, I realized that I could not motivate other people but I could help some people to…
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Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent…and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong Bob Thompson Twelve (February 2023) Here is a “ridiculously ambitious, one-person staff ride of the Revolutionary War” Bob Thompson may characterize…
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The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work and Thrive in the Next Decade Ronit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason Ideapress Publishing (March 2023) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith I agree with Marshall Goldsmith. In fact,…
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris PublicAffairs (2012) How the story of U.S. business development “can be charted as an evolution from local to regional and finally national networks” Note: The material in this…
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The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact — Driving Movements We Need Now More than Ever Latanya Mapp Frett Wiley (March 2023) What the unique and under-utilized power of collective feminism can accomplish every day In this book,…
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The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World’s Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems Paulo Savaget Flatiron Books/Imprint of Macmillan Books (March 2023) How four results-driven approaches can help resolve major crises by solving serious problems In Leading Change, James O’Toole…
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Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World Ginni Rometty Harvard Business Review Press (March 2023) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb To what does…
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