Book Reviews
Burn: How Grit, Innovation, and a Dash of Luck Ignited a Multi-Million Dollar Success Story Mei Xu Wiley (March 2021) How and why grit, innovation, and a dash of luck can realize “the promise of America” Mei Xu (pronounced “may…
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METASKILLS: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) Note: This is one of only a few books I re-read about this time every year since it was fist published. Yes, it really is that valuable. * …
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The Empathetic Workplace: 5 Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma On the Job Katharine Manning HarperCollins Leadership (February 2021) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt Katharine…
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The Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America Karen Petrou Wiley (March 2021) How to avoid “weak growth, high-risk finance, low wages, negative savings, and lost hope” I agree with Karen Petrou that “US income…
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The CEO Test: Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer Harvard Business Review Press (March 2021) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey With rare exception, crises do not develop character but…
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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…
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