Book Reviews
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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The Secure Leader: Discover the Hidden Forces that Shape Your Leadership Story — and How to Change Them Jaime Goff Amplify Publishing (September 2025) How positive emotions can help you achieve and then sustain high-impact leadership As I began to…
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The Collective Edge: Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups Colin M. Fisher Avery/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (September 2025) “To go fast, go alone. To go far, go together.” African Proverb Long ago, Peter Drucker observed: “There is surely…
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The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom Eric Racine The MIT Press (May 2025) How to develop and then apply the power of moral agency in what has become a VUCA world As I began to read this book, I hoped to…
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Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War Alice Lovejoy University of California Press (August 2025) How film became a weapon whose chemistry irrevocably shaped our world today It’s publisher correctly points out that in Tales…
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There’s Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer Basic Venture (August 2025) How and why dynamic work design can…
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Invisible Barriers: Understanding and Overcoming Discrimination in the Workplace Stéphane Carcillo and Marie-Anne Valfort The MIT Press (May 2025) What is perhaps the most important “unknown unknown”? That is an excellent question. My candidate would be thinking you know for…
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The Titanium Economy: How Industrial Technology Can Create a Better, Faster, Stronger America Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra, and Nick Santhanam Public Affairs (October 2022) How do the top-performing companies in the Titanium Economy improve their performance? According to Asutosh Padhi,…
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Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard C.M. Kushins Mariner Books (June 2025) A comprehensive exploration of the multiple lives of the “Dickens of Detroit” Elmore Leonard is one of my favorite authors but this is the…
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Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History’s Great Wits and Wordsmiths Mardy Grothe Collins/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2005) Viva Grothe!Those who have already read Grothe’s Oxymoronica will thoroughly enjoy this volume in which he shifts his attention from…
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