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In the following segment read book reviews on the published business and entrepreneurship books. I began to review books for Amazon's US, UK, and Canadian websites and blogging at other websites. So I guess you could say that I have several professional passions: to learn, to share what I learn, and to support the work of others whom I hold in high regard. Thus far, I have reviewed more..
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3d ago
Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully
Elaine Lin Hering
Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (March 2024)
The Pervasive Influence of Silence…for Better or Worse
In Future Shock (1970), Alvin Toffler offers this prediction: “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” I was again reminded of that prediction as I began to work my way through Elaine Lin Hering’s book.
Here is the conclusion of the Introduction: “If we want to be heard, and if we want to create spac ..read more
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3d ago
Digital Transformation Success: Achieving Alignment and Delivering Results with the Process Inventory Framework
Michael Schank
Apress Media (December 2023)
A brilliant combination of macro perspectives with micro analysis
Soon after I began to read this book, I was again reminded of Saint Paul’s discussion of “many parts, one body” in one of his first letters to Corinth. More recently, thirteen colonies affirmed they were “e pluribus unum: Out of many, one.” Whatever their size and nature may be, all high-impact organizations are in proper alignment — and coordination — at all levels ands in a ..read more
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1w ago
Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together
Kevin Ervin Kelley
Matt Holt Books/An Imprint of BenBella Books (March 2024)
How and why environment affects behavior…and vice versa
According to Kevin Ervin Kelley, “This book is for those who own, manage, design, or inhabit a physical place or human experience as part of their business model or operation. These places include anywhere people convene in the public realm, whether a local grocery store or pub, a religious facility or an office building, a bowling alley or university, or an urban district or zoo. This b ..read more
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1w ago
Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom
Gino Wickman and Rob Dube
BenBella Books, Inc. (March 2024) He
Why the pursuit of happiness should be a quest for being good, not feeling good — the pursuit of lifelong virtue, not short-term pleasure
AMAZON: Why the pursuit of happiness should be a quest for lifelong virtue, not feeling good
Long ago, Socrates is believed to have said that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Gino Wickman and Rob Dube are among a countless number of people who agree with him. Others include on ..read more
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2w ago
The Fisherman’s Path to Leadership: 24 Lessons from the Wisdom of Nature
Oleg Konovalov
Kindle Direct Publishing (February 2024)
Practical advice to accelerate personal growth and professional development
No brief commentary such as mine could possibly do full justice to the quality of the information, insights, and counsel that Oleg Konovalov provides in his latest book. My purpose now is to offer my reactions to the material to assist your consideration of whether or not to check out the book.
Whatever their size and nature may be, all organizations need effective leadership at all lev ..read more
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2w ago
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Jeffrey Rosen
Simon & Schuster (February 2024)
How and why happiness is the result of what you do, not what you feel
A clarification of terms would be advisable at the outset of this brief commentary.
In his uniquely valuable Introduction, Jeffrey Rosen points 0ut that the Greek word for happiness is eudaimonia, meaning “good daimon,” or good spirit, and the Greek word for virtue is arete, which also means “excellence.” Rosen notes that in The Nicomachean Ethics, “Aristotle famo ..read more
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2w ago
Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Forty Something Years in Hollywood
Ed Zwick
Gallery Books/An Imprint of Simon & Schuster (February (2024)
Four decades of swimming laps in the Hollywood blender
Here’s an IMDb mini biography provided by Humanitas Official Website: “Zwick moves deftly between the roles of writer, director and producer. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his direction of the 1989 critically acclaimed Civil War drama, Glory. He received his second Golden Globe nomination as a director for Legends of the Fall. Zwick received an Academy Award as one of the produce ..read more
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3w ago
The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work
Thomas H. Davenport
MIT Press (October 2018)
Charting “the path of artificial intelligence and cognitive technologies in mainstream businesses”
[If anything, the insights in this book are even more valuable now than they were when the book was first published.]
In the first chapter and throughout the narrative of this book, Tom Davenport provides information and insights about several of the most promising cognitive technologies: statistical machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, natural language processing ..read more
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3w ago
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold On to What Matters
Charan Ranganath
Doubleday (February 2024)
Why do we remember?
Charan Ranganath explains how and why “the story of why we remember is the story of humanity.”
Various choices are routinely influenced and sometimes completely determined by memory. “To paraphrase Nobel-winning psychologist Danny Kahneman, your ‘experiencing self’ does the living, but your ‘remembering self’ makes the choices…happiness and satisfaction you gain from the outcomes of your decisions [begin italics] do not come from what you experience, but rat ..read more
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3w ago
Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us
Ro Khanna
Simon & Schuster (February 2022)
How technology can advance democratic patriotism bv respecting the dignity of every American
I agree with these observations by the late Indian Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen in the Foreword: “What is important is to be guided by carefully examined human values related to the process of development. Democratic reasoning has to play a central role in examining and celebrating the opportunities that people benefit from — without their having to be personally flung across the world to make use of w ..read more