Book Reviews
Thomas Edison, sometime between 1870 and 1880.CreditBrady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Here is a brief excerpt from David Oshinsky‘s review of Desmond Morris‘ recently published biography of Thomas Edison, featured in The New York Times. * * * Edmund…
Read MoreThe Intelligent Leader: Unlocking the 7 Secrets to Leading Others and Leaving Your Legacy John Mattone Wiley (October 2015) How to embrace and then complete the inner work that high-impact leadership requires This is my favorite passage in Lao-tse’s Tao…
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Agility: How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption Leo M. Tilman and General Charles Jacoby Missionday (October 2019) Here’s how to identify, assess, and then respond to severe marketplace disruption with high-impact However different…
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Teams Unleashed: How to Release the Power and Human Potential of Work Teams Phillip Sandahl and Alexis Phillips Nicholas Brealey Publishers (October 2019) Great Teams: Here’s a model and methodology to create one According to Phillip Sandahl and Alexis Phillips,…
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LeaderSHOP Volume 2: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice From Today’s Top Thought Leaders Rodger Dean Duncan Maxwell Stone Publishing (September 2019) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt Organizations — including…
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Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction Thomas M. Siebel Rosetta Books (July 2019) Creative disruption and natural selection in the 21st century Years ago, Charles Darwin observed: “It is not the most intellectual of the…
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee W.W. Norton & Company (2014) “Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.” Opinions vary as to the timeframe of the…
Read MoreThe Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business Erin Meyer PublicAffairs/Perseus Book Group (2014) How and why “a dialogue of sharing, learning, and ultimately understanding” can break through barriers to global enterprise As I began to read…
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Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team Scott Miller with Todd Davis and Victoria Roos Olsson Simon & Schuster (October 2019) “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for…
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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley Eric Weiner Simon & Schuster (2016) How and why “certain places, at certain times, produce a bumper crop of brilliant minds and…
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