Book Reviews
Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People to Love What They Do Daniel Cable Harvard Business Review Press (March 2018) “I wonder what my soul does all day when I’m at work.” — Graffiti in London Recent research…
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Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups Shameen Prashantham Wiley (September 2021) “There may be trouble ahead But while there’s moonlight And music and love and romance Let’s face the music and dance.” Seth…
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz Simon & Schuster (March 2016) Here is a unique methodology “to solve big problems, test new ideas, get…
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Drinking from a Different Well: How Women’s Stories Change What Power Means in Action Annette Simmons Collaborative Narrative Solutions (September 2021) A thorough and eloquent indictment of “unchecked competitive narratives and oppressive systems” The companies annually ranked among those most…
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Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good Joan C. Williams Harvard Business Review Press (November 2021) Here are the “evidence-based tools” needed to eliminate systemic bias Joan C. Williams’ thesis: To eliminate systemic racism, organizations must change their…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Change Management, Vol.2 Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (2021) “If that’s way you’ve always done it, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering This volume is one of several in a…
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Jump: Dare to Do What Scares You in Business and Life Kim Perell HarperCollins Leadership (November 2021) “The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.” Steven Wright For every book there’s a buyer and…
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Creativity Without Frontiers: How to Make the Invisible Visible by Lighting the Way Into the Future Roy Sharples Unknown Origins (April 2021) An essential aspect of creativity is having no fear of failure.” Edwin Land Most (not all) human…
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HBR 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2017) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review…
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Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose Marco Dondi Fast Company Press (October 2021) How and why monetism is “a practical recipe for harvesting the moneytree” Marco Dondi poses two separate but related questions in the Introduction…
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