Book Reviews
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life Bill Perkins Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2020) Practical advice on how to make your life grow wider and deeper than you may now think possible Bill Perkins is…
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The Gumbo Coalition: 10 Leadership Lessons That Help You Inspire, Unite, and Achieve Marc Morial HarperCollins Leadership (May 2020) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt Like cooking gumbo, development of…
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Step Back: How to Bring the Art of Reflection into Your Busy Life Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (2010) Here are “practical everyday ways of reflecting that help you work better and live better” I have read all…
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All In: How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary Robert Bruce Shaw HarperCollins (July 2020) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb In his previous book, Extreme Teams, Robert Bruce…
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The Business of Getting Business: The Digital Marketing Guide for Small Businesses Joe Manausa LID Publishing (May 2020) “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” Peter Drucker Presumably Joe Manausa agrees with Drucker. Business success requires…
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Humankind: A Hopeful History Rutger Bregman Translated from the Dutch by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore Little, Brown & Company (June 2020) How and why it’s time for a new view of humankind According to Rutger Bregman — in a…
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Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs–from Delhi to Detroit–Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley Alexandre Lazarow Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.” Steven Wright As Alexandre Lazarow…
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The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter Harvard Business Review Press (June 2020) “A republic — if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin That was Franklin’s…
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Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term David M. Cote HarperCollins Leadership (June 2020) It’s not “Either/Or”; it’s “Both” In his latest book, The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for…
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The Accidental Business Nomad: A Survival Guide for Working Across a Shrinking Planet Kyle D. Hegarty Nicholas Brealey Publishing (June 2020) A primer for “strangers doing business in a strange land” Some people aspire to become an international “business nomad,”…
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