Book Reviews
Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact Jenn Lin Grand Central Publishing (October 2021) “Death is not the greatest loss in life…[but rather] what dies inside us while we live.” This assertion by Norman…
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Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, and Larry Downes PublicAffairs (April 2019) How to “find your brick and then keep enhancing it” I reviewed this book when it was…
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Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take Paul Polman and Andrew Winston Harvard Business Review Press (October 2021) “That time is now.” In Net Positive, Paul Polman and Andrew Winston explain how courageous companies outperform…
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Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company’s DNA Ben Bensaou with Karl Weber McGRaw-Hill (September 2021) How to establish and then nourish an innovation-driven workplace culture With assistance from Karl Weber, Ben Bensaou wrote a book…
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Nudge: The Final Edition Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin Books (August 2021) “Letting the other chap have it your way.” This is an updated and revised version of a book first published in 2008. The first four…
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Here is a brief except from John Eisenhower’s review of Emory M. Thomas’ superb Robert E. Lee: A Biography, featured in The New York Times (1995). To read the complete review, check out other resources, and obtain information about deep-discount…
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Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter R. Dutt Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2021) How to dedvelop the mindset needed to design vision-driven products and services I agree with Radhika Dutt that “product” is a way of thinking, not…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a book review by Claudia Roth Pierpont for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration by Tamara Shopsin; engraving from Hulton Archive / Getty *…
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Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being Rob Cross Harvard Business Review Press (September 2021) How to avoid “the death of a thousand cuts” from inefficient communication and collaboration According to Rob Cross,”We endure…
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The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world Dorie Clark Harvard Business Review Press (September 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb I…
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