Book Reviews
CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra Scribner (March 2022) How and why the best “playmakers” can — and do — write their own “playbook” As I…
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The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain Art Koch Business Expert Press (June 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering Whatever their size and nature may be, all organizations have two compelling…
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Be the Unicorn: 12 Data-Driven Habits That Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest William Vanderbloemen HarperCollins Leadership/An Imprint of HarperCollins (November 2023) How determined are you to to work hard AND smart? Otherwise…. What are the defining characteristics of…
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All-In on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence Tom Davenport and Nitin Mittal Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) “By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” Richard Dawkins In…
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HBR 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2017) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review…
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Tickling Sharks: How We Sold Businesses on Sustainability John Elkington Fast Company Press (June 2024) “You’re going to need a larger perspective.” As I began to read Tickling Sharks, I was again reminded of Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The Coming of…
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The AI-Savvy Leader: 9 Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work David De Cremer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) How and why AI is best viewed as an invaluable coworker I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.” Tim Brown This book is one of the most recent volumes in…
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The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers & Acquisitions Game Mark L. Sirower and Jeffery M. Weirens Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company…
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Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success Ron Friedman Simon & Schuster (June 2021) How to reverse engineer success, however you define it As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of how…
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