Book Reviews
HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers Elisa Farri and Gabriele Rosani Harvard Business Review Press (February 2025) How well-prepared is your organization to compete in a “humanAIzed” fiuture? This is another volume in one of the several series of…
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Playing to Win:How Strategy Really Works, Expanded Edition A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin Harvard Business Review Press (September 2025) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter This is an expanded edition of what has…
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Picket Line: The Lost Novella Elmore Leonard Mariner Books/An Imprint of Random House (September 2025) Introducing “the Charles Dickens of Detroit” Many novellas seem (at least to me) originally intended to be novels prior to aggressive editing. Channeling Antoine de…
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The Power to Persist: 8 Simple Habits to Build Lifelong Resilience Lamell J. McMorris Fast Company Press (September 2025) “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” As I began to read this book, I was again reminded…
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Superperformance: 8 Strategies to Reach Full Potential for Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization George Pesansky Fast Company Press (September 2025) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” …
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Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding Margaret C. Andrews Venture (September 2025) What you must do first in order to become an effective leader of others Whatever their size and nature may be, organizations need…
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Geniuses, Heroes, and Saints: The Nobel Prize and the Public Image of Science Massimiano Bucchi (Translated by Tania Aragona) The MIT Press ( Mazy 2025) “How [and why] has this cult of science arisen?” Thorsten Veblem (1906) Of all the…
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The Strategic Enemy: How to Build and Position a Brand Worth Fighting For Laura Ries Wiley (September 2025) How and why the “strategic enemy” is a critically important positioning tool The marketing classic, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (1981),…
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Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby The MIT Press (May 2025) Although, yes, “it’s not here and not now,” but perhaps some day… I cannot recall a prior time…
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The RevOps Advantage: How to Maximize Your Revenue Team’s Potential Amy Osmond Cook, Ryan Westwood, and Bala Balabaskaran Peakpoint Press (September 2025) “Potential” means “you ain’t done it yet.” Darrell Royal I agree with Coach Royal. Few (if any) organizations…
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