Book Reviews
Monopolies & Tech Giants: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) How those threatened by tech “giants” can compete with them in a VUCA marketplace This is one of the first volumes…
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Lead with We: The Business Revolution That Will Save Our Future Simon Mainwaring Matt Holt (November 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb The global business world is…
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The Cactus and the Snowflake at Work: How the Logical and Sensitive Can Thrive Side by Side Devora Zack Berrett-Koehler Publishers (November 2021) How to balance contrasting predilections to increase positive impact To what does the title refer? Devora Zack…
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Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work Amelia Dunlop Wiley (October 2021) “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead This book’s title correctly suggests that, in terms of of…
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The Year in Tech 2022: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series) Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (October 2021) “Big Bang Disruptions”: A paradigm for all seasons This is the…
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass; with an Introduction by Debra Newman Ham and Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone/A Wiley Imprint (August 2021) “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Frederick Douglass There are…
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Harvard Business Review Project Management: How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez Harvard Business Review Press (October 2021) How and why operations run an organization whereas projects change it Years ago, I concluded — and remain convinced …
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50 Business Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management and strategy Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey (April 2018) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer) [Note: I recently re-read this book again…
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The Year in Tech 2021: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series) Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (October 2021) Which high technologies will probably be most disruptive? How best to…
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