Book Reviews
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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Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything Alexandra Carter Simon & Schuster (May 2020) “Win-Win” means that an agreenent is mutuallky-benificial. Here’s how. Years ago, during a reception for the new British ambassador to the U.S., I had a…
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The Harvard Business Review Leader’s Handbook: Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (October 2018) “Act as if what you do makes a difference. Because it…
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Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff Joel Peterson HarperCollins Leadership (April 2020) Here’s “a set of principles, mind-sets, and self-talk that may help” to accelerate leadership development Many (if not most) people think…
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Your Creative Mind: How to Disrupt Your Thinking, Abandon Your Comfort Zone, and Develop Bold New Strategies Scott Cochrane Weiser (September 2016) “If you give me six hours to chop down a tree, I’ll spend the first four sharpening the…
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Edison Edmund Morris Random House (October 2019) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison is generally considered among the greatest inventors/innovators in modern history. He was awarded 1,073 patents. The list of what he created or improved…
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