Book Reviews
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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 …
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
Racial Justice: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (December 2020) “Justice delayed is justice denied.” William E. Gladstone This is one of the first volumes in a new series published by Harvard Business…
Read More
Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day Amishi P. Jha HarperOne/A HarperCollins Imprint (October 2021) How to nourish neural bases of attention to strengthen mindfulness amidst constant distraction Amishi Jha speaks for many people…
Read More
HBR’s 10 Must Reads: 2022 Various Contributors, including HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (October 2021) Definitive management ideas that will have great impact in 2022 This is the latest volume in a series introduced in 2015, the “HBR 10…
Read More
Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact Jenn Lin Grand Central Publishing (October 2021) “Death is not the greatest loss in life…[but rather] what dies inside us while we live.” This assertion by Norman…
Read More
Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, and Larry Downes PublicAffairs (April 2019) How to “find your brick and then keep enhancing it” I reviewed this book when it was…
Read More