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Book Review: Binde, P., (2024), ESG Sprint, 10-10-10 Publishing
This book, written by Petter Binde, a Switzerland-based management expert, discusses a seven-step approach for implementing ESG...
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Book Review: Olson, P., (2024), Supremacy, Macmillan
This book is about the race among giants in the IT industry to come up with more powerful AI applications, such as ChatGPT. It is also...
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Book Review: Merkel, A., (2024), Freedom, Macmillan
This book, authored by former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is a very important one. This reviewer is impressed with the clarity that...
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Book Review: Danco, K., (1981), From the Other Side of the Bed, The Center for Family Business
This book addresses how a spouse in a family business (most often a woman) might look at life Its focus is on the various roles that a...
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Book Review: Fatland, E., (2024), Sjøfareren, Kagge Forlag (English translation, The Navigators: forthcoming)
This long book details the former Portuguese colonial imperium, from Cape Verde to East Timor, from Macao to Brazil. The author takes us...
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Book Review: J.D. Vance (2016), Hillbilly Elegy, Harper Colins
This book tells the supposed true story of J.D. Vance’s (JDV) upbringing amongst poor whites in the Appalachian region of the United...
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Book Review: Macfarlane, R., (2025), Is a River Alive?, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin
This book details the author’s explorations regarding three rivers, Los Cedres in Ecuador, Chennai in India, and Muteshekau-Shipu in...
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Book Review: Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken, (2023), Cornerstone Press The issue of how our eating habits impact our physical weight...
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Book Review: Brighter by Adam Dorr
Brighter by Adam Dorr (2023), ReThinkX We all acknowledge that we are facing bigger than ever environmental challenges, The author of...
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Interview with Gillian Tett, Senior Editor, US, Financial Times
In her latest book, Anthrovision: A New Way to See in Business and Life (2021), Gillian Tett writes about the behaviors of organizations,...
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Siilasmaa, R., Transforming Nokia: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change
This is an important book, detailing how Nokia changed its strategy, by exiting the hand-held mobile phone business, where it was once...
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Book Review: Gergen, D., (2022), Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made.
The author, David Gergen, served as White House advisor to four US Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton), and now teaches at...
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Book Review: Rachman, G. (2022), The Age of the Strongman
This book consists of over 11 biographies of more or less dictatorial leaders, including Putin, Xi, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Orbán as well as...
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Book Review: Kagge, E., (2021), The Philosophy of an Explorer, Penguin
This book is written by the Erling Kagge, the Norwegian explorer, author, art collector, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician, who was the...
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Bremmer, I. (2022) The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
Introduction This book offers hope when it comes to how we might cope with the following three critical problems, facing us all in this...
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Book Review: Carreyrou, J. (2018), Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.
This book reports on the startup of the Silicon Valley firm Theranos in 2008, a company offering blood tests through a simple, small...
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Book Review: Mounk, Y., (2022), The Great Experiment, Penguin
This important book discusses possible paths for the various societies of this world – towards more authority and intolerance, or towards...
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Book Review: Bill Browder, (2015), Red Notice, Simon & Schuster
Introduction When I first read this book, in around 2016, I had primarily been concerned with Bill Browder’s chronicling of the fate of...
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Book Review: Browder, W., (2022), Freezing Order, Simon & Schuster
This book is a follow-on to the author’s bestseller Red Notice (Simon & Schuster, 2017). The current and serious war between Russia and...
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Book Review: Dewar, C., Keller, S., and Malhotra, V., (2022), CEO Excellence.
This important book, written by three senior partners at McKinsey & Company, is about the mindsets that seem to differentiate what are...
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