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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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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: Goldstein, J., (2021), From Bronze to Bitcoin: The True Story of Made-up Things.
In recent months, I have been trying to understand more about decentralized encrypted digital currencies, including Bitcoin, as well as...
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Book Review: Wapshott, N. (2021), Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market.
This book chronicles key discussion between perhaps the two greatest economists from the end of World War II to the beginning of this...
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Book Review: Prashantham, Shameen (2022), Gorillas can Dance, Wiley by Peter Lorange
This book reports on a 15-year research effort to explore how large corporations might effectively partner with much smaller startups, so...
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Book Review: Dignity in a Digital Society: Making Tech Work for All of Us
This book discusses the dilemma of how to avoid too much regulation, or too little regulation, to impact economic growth. In the USA, we...
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Book Review: Gunther, M. (1985), The Zürich Axioms, Harriman Classics by Peter Lorange
This is a relatively old book, first published in 1985. However, I find this to be highly relevant also today. So, even though my review...
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