Mar 24, 2024 | Book Reviews
Claas Florian Engelke and Richard B. Swegan have achieved something truly remarkable. They have embraced the utilitarian principles observable in the Lean system, married them with distinctive, informed observations, and have come out with one of the most succinct,...
Mar 24, 2024 | Book Reviews
For once, Stephen Wunker, Jennifer Luo Law, and Hari Nair’s book just gets down to business. Typically there’s a sort of salesmanship quality to business and leadership advice books. Even the ones written by bonafide experts have a good amount of quality spin to them....
Mar 24, 2024 | Book Reviews
Part of what makes Michael Schank’s new book, Digital Transformation Success, so invigorating is the fact Schank is willing to break a cardinal rule of the nonfiction subcategory of business and leadership advice. Simply put, not just sticking to facts – but making...
Mar 15, 2024 | Book Reviews
Cara E. Houser’s book is inspiring to me. A number of years ago, I was right where the ideal target audience of her new book was. Washed up, a struggling professional trying to make it in a notoriously volatile and corrosive business that spits out and swallows up...
Feb 18, 2024 | Book Reviews
Uma Vanka strikes an interesting pose ideologically. He’s not a blind optimist to the polarizing issues his book explores. Nor does he adopt the kind of cautionary, foreboding tonality of an Elon Musk in this debate. Cautious optimism is the road he walks, a fine line...
Feb 7, 2024 | Book Reviews
Thich Nhat Hahn’s new book is simply titled How to Smile. As he brilliantly demonstrates, the idea – while easily dismissed in today’s world as superfluous in the face of short-term immediacies – in fact is probably one of the deepest, most introspective analyses...