Book Reviews
Invisible Barriers: Understanding and Overcoming Discrimination in the Workplace Stéphane Carcillo and Marie-Anne Valfort The MIT Press (May 2025) What is perhaps the most important “unknown unknown”? That is an excellent question. My candidate would be thinking you know for…
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The Titanium Economy: How Industrial Technology Can Create a Better, Faster, Stronger America Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra, and Nick Santhanam Public Affairs (October 2022) How do the top-performing companies in the Titanium Economy improve their performance? According to Asutosh Padhi,…
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Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard C.M. Kushins Mariner Books (June 2025) A comprehensive exploration of the multiple lives of the “Dickens of Detroit” Elmore Leonard is one of my favorite authors but this is the…
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Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History’s Great Wits and Wordsmiths Mardy Grothe Collins/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2005) Viva Grothe!Those who have already read Grothe’s Oxymoronica will thoroughly enjoy this volume in which he shifts his attention from…
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Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future Vijay Govindarajan and Venkat Venkatraman Harvard Business Review Press (March 2024) How and why digitizing the industrial world really matters At the outset of this brilliant book, Vijay…
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Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut John Wiley & Sons (2009) To the best of my knowledge, there is no better single source for expert guidance on…
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After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People Dean Spears and Michael Geruso Simon & Schuster (July 2025) Why responding to depopulation will be more challenging than responding to climate change At the outset, Dean Spears and Michael…
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where and Why it Happens Benedict Carey Random House (2014) How to take full advantage of a host of techniques that deepen learning that remain largely unknown outside scientific circles As Benedict…
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz Simon & Schuster (March 2016) Here is a unique methodology “to solve big problems, test new ideas, get…
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The Decisive Company: How High-Performance Organizations Connect Strategy to Execution Steven Elliott Houndstooth Press (February 2025) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison I agree with Edison and so does Steven Elliott. Organizations today face challenges that are more volatile,…
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