Book Reviews
The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe After Napoleon Glenda Sluga Princeton University Press (December 2021) “The Concert of Europe”…who knew? Here’s how Glenda Sluga sets her table: “The intention of this book is to return to the early nineteenth…
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Move to the Edge, Declare It Center: Practices and Processes for Creatively Solving Complex Problems Everett Harper Wiley (March 2022) How to make better decisions (answering questions and solving problems) in a VUCA business world Occasionally, I read more than…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2019) Begin at the end: First determine WHAT and WHY, then WHO and HOW. After centuries of war between…
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A History of Ambiguity Anthony Ossa-Richardson Princeton University Press (2019) Ambiguity: “the subjective state of doubt as well as its objective correlative in the world” In his instructive Introduction, Anthony Ossa-Richardson shares his thoughts about what he characterizes as the…
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How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated for the Next Generation of Leaders Dale Carnegie Simon & Schuster (May 2022) “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and…
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Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, and Why It Matters Barbara Kellerman Harvard Business Review Press (2004) Webs of leadership are among the webs of significance in the given enterprise, for better or worse As Barbara Kellerman defines…
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HBR Guide to Leading Teams Mary Shapiro Harvard Business Review Press (2015) “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams Note: The material in this volume…
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The Origins of Creativity Edward O. Wilson Liveright Publishing Corporation (October 2017) Will this be the third Enlightenment? In recent years, Anthony Gottlieb wrote two of the books that were for me among those most intellectually stimulating: The Dream of…
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Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness Philip Goff Pantheon (2019) Matter exists regardless of whether or not there is an awareness of it According to Philip Goff, “Galileo the philosopher created physical science by setting the sensory…
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Creative Conflict: A Practical Guide for Business Negotiators Bill Sanders and Frank Mobus Harvard Business Review Press (June 2021) A brilliant explanation of “how negotiating is driven by both competition and cooperation, often at the same time.” A few books…
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