Book Reviews
Nincompoopery: Why Customers Hate You — and How to Fix It John R. Brandt HarperBusiness Leadership (July 2019) How to understand, design, and deliver great value for everyone involved For such a colloquial word, nincompoop actually has a very learned…
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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann Portfolio/Penguin (June 1919) How to develop a mind that can jump jurisdictional boundaries to create unique value J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the…
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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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Superforecasting:The Art and Science of Prediction Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner Broadway Books (September 2016) How and why the best decisions are based on the best information The best decisions really are based on the best information. That is, information…
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World David Epstein Riverhead Books (May 2019) “Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it’s just the beginning.” Marshall McLuhan All of the best works of non-fiction are evidence-driven in one or more…
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“People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt HBR Press offers a series of anthologies (thirteen volumes thus far) of articles in which contributors share proven research that explains how our emotions…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads for CEOs Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2017) Cutting-edge insights for those who are a CEO or aspire to become one This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of…
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“You don’t get results by focusing on results. Focus on doing what produces results.” Mike Hawkins HBR Press offers a series of anthologies (thirteen volumes thus far) of articles in which contributors share proven research that explains how our emotions…
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“There is a huge difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.” Simon Sinek HBR Press offers a series of anthologies (thirteen volumes thus far) of articles in which contributors share proven research that explains how our emotions…
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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson HarperBusiness (October 2018) How smarter choices can avoid or eliminate chaos in the workplace This is Jason Fried and David Heinemeier’s fourth collaboration on a book…
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