Book Reviews
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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The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI Paul Leonard & Tsedal Neeley Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) A mindset for all seasons whenever human intelligence interacts with artificial intelligence…
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Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made David Gergen Simon & Schuster (May 2022) “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses As I began to read this book, I was again reminded that…
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups Daniel Coyle Bantam Books/An imprint of Random House (January 2018) How and why “small efforts are powerful because they transmit, amplify, and celebrate the purpose of the whole group” A few…
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