Book Reviews
Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth Richard Boyatzis, Melvin L. Smith, and Ellen Van Oosten Harvard Business Review Press (September 2019) “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Reinventing HR HBR Editors and Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (June 2019) How to take a management approach that drives employee engagement and high performance This is one in a series of volumes that…
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Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger HarperOne/An imprint of HarperCollins (September 2019) How and why being “defiant, dangerous, and different is a gift” Helen Keller once suggested, “Life is…
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Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of the Organization John Browne Pegasus Brooks (May 2019) John Browne: How and why “all progress starts with a dream: a vision of a better world.” Very few people complete a formal education in…
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It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias that Built It Andrea S. Kramer and Alton B. Harris Nicholas Brealey (August 2019) How gender biases have impact on personal and professional development…for better or worse…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation HBR Editors and Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (July 2019) Business models determine how well components of an organization work together, for better or worse This is one in a series…
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The Odyssey Homer; Emily Wilson, Translator W.W. Norton & Company (November 2017) A brilliant exploration of “both the origins of Western literature, and our infinitely complex contemporary world” The last time I checked, Amazon offers 221 English translations of Homer’s…
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The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 Jonathan Israel Princeton University Press (2017) A briliant examination of “the crucible of demographic modernity” As is often true of my reviewing efforts, I read this book in combination…
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The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing Michael J. Mauboussin Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to “untangle” skill and luck to improve at “the art of good guesswork” when making decisions Note:…
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