Book Reviews
Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success Ron Friedman Simon & Schuster (June 2021) How to reverse engineer success, however you define it As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of how…
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HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2014) In fact, this material can help almost anyone manage stress almost anywhere. This is one of my most popular reviews, perhaps because of pressures and stresses…
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Intuition at Work: Using Your Gut Feelings to Get Ahead Jessica Pryce-Jones Sequoia Books (July 2024) How and why intuition can help produce better answers and solutions and do so much faster Whatever their size and nature may be, all…
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The Future of Management Gary Hamel with Bill Breen Harvard Business School Press (2007) With all due respect to today’s business bestsellers, most of the best books have already been written on the most important subjects. Case in point: This…
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America Steven Johnson Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (2008) It would be an exaggeration to suggest that Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is the focal point of this book. He…
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The Change Leader’s Road Map: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dean Anderson Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2010) “If you’ve always done it this way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering I recently read the Second Edition of…
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Equity How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives: Minal Bopaiah Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2021) How to design an organization for equity in a business world in which inequity continues to thrive In his classic work, Power: Why Some People Have It and…
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50 Politics Classics: Freedom Equality Power: Mind-Changing, World-Changing Ideas from Fifty Landmark Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2015) “The world is a dangerous place to live…because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert EinsteinActually, the complete…
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Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011) Why I think this is one of the most important books published during the past decade Given the number and quality of the reviews of this book that have…
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Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life Hal Gregersen Harper Business (November 2018) If you want better answers, you must ask better questions In his predictably brilliant Foreword, Ed Catmull asks:…
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