Book Reviews
Founders Keepers: Why Founders Are Built to Fail, and What It Takes to Succeed Richard Hagberg and Tien Tzuo with Gabe Weisert Matt Holt Books, An Imprint of BenBella Books (June 2025) “The startup landscape is a killing field.” According…
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The Growth Dilemma: Managing Your Brand When Different Customers Want Different Things Annie Wilson and Ryan Hamilton Harvard Business Review Press (June 2025) How to navigate the perilous waters of growth through the acquisition of new customers To what does…
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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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Here is an excerpt from an article written by and Curtis L. Odom, Charn P. McAllister and Ryan Soffer for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription…
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The Systems Leader: Mastering the Cross Pressures That Make or Break Today’s Companies Robert E. Siegel Crown Currency (June 2025) How to juggle hand grenades while walking through a minefield during an electrical storm…wearing a blindfold This book’s subtitle refers…
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The Science of Leadership: Nine Ways to Expand Your Impact Jeffrey Hull and Margaret Moore Berrett-Koehler Publishers (July 2025) The art and science of developing high-impact leaders Whatever its size and nature may be, every organization needs high-impact leaders at…
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI Ray Kurzweil Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2024) We are “on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.” I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s…
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Rebooting Tech Culture; How to Ignite Innovation and Build Organizations Where Everyone Can Thrive Telle Whitney Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) Employees rank “feeling appreciated” of greatest importance to them. I wholly agree with Telle Whitney about the importance…
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The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray Steve Sloman The MIT Press (May 2025) How and why decisions based on deepest values can sometimes lead us astray Steve Sloman explains how the mind works and how…
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The Activator Advantage: What Today’s Rainmakers Do Differently Matthew Dixon, Rory Channer, Karen Fredeman, and Ted McKenna Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) Here is a new approach to business development that is “altogether unique and undeniably more effective” As…
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