Book Reviews
The Essential Diversity Mindset: How to Cultivate a More Inclusive Culture and Environment Soo Bong Peer Career Press (March 2021) “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr. In ancient Greece, the original meaning…
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Tom Stoppard: A Life Hermione Lee Knopf (February 2021) A lively and rigorous exploration of an enormous life spent in constant motion In his brilliant review of this book for The New York Times, Dwight Garner observes: “Now 83, he’s…
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Here is a brief excerpt from Barton Swaim’s review of David O. Stewart’s George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father, for The Wall Street Journal. He asserts that the first President of the United States “was a savvy…
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Eleanor David Michaelis Simon & Schuster (October 2020) “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt Over the years, I have read hundreds of biographies and reviewed many of them. This is one of…
Read MoreThe biographer Hermione Lee, whose new life of Tom Stoppard was published on Feb. 23.Credit…Jamie Muir Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Charles McGrath that was featured in The New York Times. To read the complete article,…
Read MoreTom Stoppard on his way to Darjeeling, India, in 1990. Photo: Karan Kapoor Here is a brief excerpt of a review of Tom Stoppard, A Life that Brooke Allen wrote for The Wall Street Journal. To read the3 complete article,…
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Quantum Marketing: Mastering the New Marketing Mindset for Tomorrow’s Consumers Raja Rajamannar HarperCollins Leadership (February 2021) How and why a quantum challenge requires a quantum response It is generally assumed that marketing began several thousand years ago when what was…
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THRIVE: The Leader’s Guide to Building a High-Performance Culture Andrew Freedman with Paul Elliott Lioncrest Publishing (January 2021) How and why strategic initiatives achieve breakthrough, high-impact results First, I want to commend Andrew Freedman who — with substantial assistance from…
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Present Company: Cultivating Cultures of High Performance in Teams and Organizations Timothy Dukes and Michael Landers Conscious Capitalism Press (January 2021) “We convince by our presence…for better or worse.” Walt Whitman As I began to read this book, I was…
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