Book Reviews
Get Pay Right: How to Achieve Pay Equity That Works Kent Plunkett and Heather Russing, with Steve Boese, George La Rocque, Madelin Laurano, Sarah Morgan, Trish Steed, and John Sumser SHRM (Juy 2024) How and why paying all employees fairly…
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Resonant Leadership: Inspiring Others Through Emotional Intelligence Richard Boyatzis More Than Sound (2009) How to renew yourself and connect with others through mindfulness, hope, and compassion As I began to listen to the first of three CDs that comprise this…
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How to Create Innovation: The Ultimate Guide to Proven Strategies and Business Models to Drive Innovation and Digital Transformation Stefan F. Dieffenbacher, Caroline Hüttinger, Susanne M. Zaninelli, Douglas Lines, and Andreas Rein…in collaboration with 60+ other thought leaders Wiley (June…
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Cal Newport Grand Central Publishing (2016) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle Note: I recently re-read this book prior to reading…
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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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Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success On the Far Side of Failure Paul J.F. Schoemaker Wharton Digital Press (2012) How and why mistakes “enlarge our range of experience, shrink our ego, and thereby increase the chance of discovery.” The title of this…
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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) This is one of the books I frequently re-read wholly for pleasure, its insights even more…
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The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion in Business and Life Leslie Zane Public Affairs (June 2024) How and why 95% of decisions are made by the unconscious mind The mind is what the brain does. According to…
Read MoreGreat at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More Morten Hansen Simon & Schuster (January 2018) How and why “seven practices upend conventional thinking about how you should work” Note: Every so often, I recycle a…
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Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani Harvard Business Review Press (January 2020) The impact of artificial intelligence on businesses: how they will operate and…
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