Book Reviews
A Chance Meeting: American Encounters Rachel Carson NYRB Classics (March 2024) What if? At some point, Rachel Cohen must have asked herself, “What if I were a fly on the wall” when two or three American writers or artists were…
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall St. Martin’s Press (March 2019) If an idea doesn’t sound loony, it probably needs much more development…and protection. In this compellingly entertaining as…
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Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier Anish Batlaw and Ram Charan Ideapress Publishing (January 2022) How and why strategic talent management drives exceptional value creation Here’s this book’s basic concept: Ram Charan and Anish Batlaw examine “a methodology and practice that…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance Various Contributors and HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle’s insight refers to organizations as well…
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Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons Jessica Chen Portfolio/Penguin (July 2024) How to reframe Quiet Culture values in order to get noticed for the right reasons According to Jessica Chen, we are…
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Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future Mike Maples Jr. and Peter Ziebelman PublicAffairs (July 2024) “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo the Possum Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman agree. They created this book in…
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Shocks, Cr!ses, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Microeconomic Risk Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz Harvard Business Review Press (July 2024) How and why assessing macroeconomic risks requires highly developed judgment Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz have wide and deep…
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The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War Hardcover A.J. Baime Marinedr Books (June (2014) A true tale “that rivals the weirdest fiction and wildest imaginings of the comic books.” Note: I re-read…
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Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future Jeremy Kahn Simon & Schuster (July 2024) Why AI is “strange and frightening” but also “exciting and fabulous” I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The Coming of Technological Singularity: How…
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Get Pay Right: How to Achieve Pay Equity That Works Kent Plunkett and Heather Russing, with Steve Boese, George La Rocque, Madelin Laurano, Sarah Morgan, Trish Steed, and John Sumser SHRM (Juy 2024) How and why paying all employees fairly…
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