Book Reviews
Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding Margaret C. Andrews Venture (September 2025) What you must do first in order to become an effective leader of others Whatever their size and nature may be, organizations need…
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Geniuses, Heroes, and Saints: The Nobel Prize and the Public Image of Science Massimiano Bucchi (Translated by Tania Aragona) The MIT Press ( Mazy 2025) “How [and why] has this cult of science arisen?” Thorsten Veblem (1906) Of all the…
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The Strategic Enemy: How to Build and Position a Brand Worth Fighting For Laura Ries Wiley (September 2025) How and why the “strategic enemy” is a critically important positioning tool The marketing classic, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (1981),…
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Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby The MIT Press (May 2025) Although, yes, “it’s not here and not now,” but perhaps some day… I cannot recall a prior time…
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The RevOps Advantage: How to Maximize Your Revenue Team’s Potential Amy Osmond Cook, Ryan Westwood, and Bala Balabaskaran Peakpoint Press (September 2025) “Potential” means “you ain’t done it yet.” Darrell Royal I agree with Coach Royal. Few (if any) organizations…
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The Secure Leader: Discover the Hidden Forces that Shape Your Leadership Story — and How to Change Them Jaime Goff Amplify Publishing (September 2025) How positive emotions can help you achieve and then sustain high-impact leadership As I began to…
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The Collective Edge: Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups Colin M. Fisher Avery/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (September 2025) “To go fast, go alone. To go far, go together.” African Proverb Long ago, Peter Drucker observed: “There is surely…
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The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom Eric Racine The MIT Press (May 2025) How to develop and then apply the power of moral agency in what has become a VUCA world As I began to read this book, I hoped to…
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Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War Alice Lovejoy University of California Press (August 2025) How film became a weapon whose chemistry irrevocably shaped our world today It’s publisher correctly points out that in Tales…
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There’s Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer Basic Venture (August 2025) How and why dynamic work design can…
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