Book Reviews
How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers Mihir Desai Harvard Business Review Press (April 2019) An offering of essential financial information on the other side of complexity Long ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. said he…
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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom Matt Ridley Harper (May 2020) “Innovation offers the carrot of spectacular reward or the stick of destitution.” Joseph Schumpeter In the Introduction to his brilliant book, Matt Ridley cites a concept…
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Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (2002) The potential power and impact of “small and obscure deeds” Note: I just re-read it and all that Joseph Badaracco affirms is…
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition Stephen R. Covey with Sean Covey Simon & Schuster (May 2020) A classic of personal growth even more valuable today than it was when first published in 1989 First of…
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Strategic Analytics: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2020) What makes a company’s strategy or business model possible? This is one of the first volumes in a new series published by Harvard…
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The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman The MIT Press (March 2020) How to do very well “what all good scientists do. Experiment.” Opinions are divided, sometimes sharply divided, about the…
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Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology Rana el Kaliouby with Carol Colman Currency (April 2020) A brilliant explanation of how to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us According to Rana el…
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Alexandra The Three Box Solution Playbook: Tools and Tactics for Creating Your Company’s Strategy Vijay Govindarajan and Manish Tangri Harvard Business Review Press (May 2020) “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci This is a companion to The Three-Box…
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire Rebecca Henderson Public Affairs (April 2020) Three problems: massive environmental degradation, economic ineqality, and institutional collapse As Rebecca Henderson explains, this book “is the result of a fifteen-year exploration of why and how…
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HBR Guide to Performance Management HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (July 2017) Here is a brilliant introduction to the essential elements of performance management As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide to” series…
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