Book Reviews
Here is an excerpt from an especially important article written by Tina Jordan, Noor Qasim, and John Williams that appeared in The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please…
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The Live Enterprise: Creating a Continuously Evolving and Learning Organization Jeff Kavanaugh and Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar McGraw-Hill (January 2021) How resilience and regeneration enable companies to adapt and evolve Note the gerund “creating” in this book’s subtitle. It correctly suggests…
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The Business of We: The Proven Three-Step Process for Closing the Gap Between Us and Them in Your Workplace Laura Kriska HarperCollins Leadership (January 2021) How and why all healthy organizations think and behave in terms of first-person PLURAL pronouns…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a review of James Shapiro‘s Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by David Ives for The New York Times. To read the complete review, check…
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Getting It All Done: The HBR Working Parents Series Daisy Dowling, Series Editor Harvard Business School Press (December 2020) “Until we can manage time and effort, we can manage nothing else.” Peter Drucker This is one of the volumes in…
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Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century Jeff Lawson HarperBusiness (January 2021) How and why software development has become a natural law of successful business In this book, Jeff Lawson…
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Redefining Possible: Proven Strategies to Break Belief Barriers and Create Your New Normal Ron Alford and Dustin Hillis SouthwesternBooks (January 2021) “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” Mark…
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Taking Care of Yourself: The HBR Working Parents Series Daisy Dowling, Series Editor Harvard Business School Press (December 2020) If you don’t care about your health, why should anyone else? This is one of the volumes in a new series…
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Stronger Through Adversity: World-Class Leaders Share Pandemic-Tested Lessons on Thriving During the Toughest Challenges Joseph A. Michelli McGraw-Hill (December 2020) “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsch Nietzsche’s observation (made in 1888) is somewhat relevant as…
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Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection Marissa King Dutton (January 2021) How the basic elements of social structure and their psychological tendencies shape our lives According to Marissa King, “Social scientists have spent the last four decades studying…
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