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Takeaways from William MacAskill’s Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism by Peter Lorange
William MacAskill’s book initially caught my attention because of its title, Doing Good Better. As an academic working in the field of...
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Takeaways from Stephen A. Schwarzman’s What It Takes by Peter Lorange
Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman, CEO, co-founder and largest shareholder of Blackstone, the large, highly successful NYC-based investment...
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Takeaways from Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Danny Goh’s The AI Republic by Dr. Peter Lorange
For a long time, this reviewer has been looking for a good book aimed at busy business executives who wish to get a broad view of the...
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Takeaways from Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human by Dr. Peter Lorange
This book deals with the same fundamental challenge discussed in The Boys in the Boat (see my previous review); namely, how to develop...
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Takeaways from Lord Martin Rees’ On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by Peter Lorange
According to Harvard Professor Steven Pinker, On the Future: Prospects for Humanity is “an engaging analysis of the most important issues...
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Takeaways from Daniel Pink’s When by Peter Lorange
“Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” Author Daniel Pink uses this quote from Miles Davis to kick off his thesis that timing...
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Takeaways from Bill McKibbon’s Falter by Dr. Peter Lorange
Bill McKibbon is a well-known environmental activist and a Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College (Vermont,...
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Takeaways from Scott Galloway’s The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
Dr. Scott Galloway, author of The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, is a professor at NYU with an impressive...
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Takeaways from Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Peter Lorange
Ruthless, manipulative, selfish, but also highly gifted… much has been said about Uber’s founder, Travis Kalanick. In Super Pumped: The...
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Takeaways from Jim Mattis and Bing West’s Call Sign Chaos by Peter Lorange
Four-Star General Jim Mattis, who retired from military service in 2013, narrates his more-than-40-year military career as well as his...
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Takeaways from Steven Johnson’s Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Making good decisions is challenging for everyone, especially when those decisions relate to important matters, for which the...
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Takeaways from Raj Kumar’s The Business of Changing the World by Peter Lorange
The Business of Changing the World documents a recent series of important shifts in social entrepreneurship. Its author, Raj Kumar,...
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Takeaways from Walter R. Stahel’s The Circular Economy by Peter Lorange
The concept of a circular economy – which refers to reusing resources to avoid their depletion – is central to the debate on how to...
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Takeaways from Scott Kupor’s Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Peter Lorange
In Secrets of Sand Hill Road, Scott Kupor provides a well-needed and clear view of the venture capital (VC) phenomenon, from both...
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Takeaways from Ruth Reichl’s Save Me the Plums (2019) by Peter Lorange
Featuring Ruth Reichl’s memoirs from her time as editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine from 1999–2009 might strike some readers as quite...
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Takeaways from Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat (2013) by Peter Lorange
The Boys in the Boat chronicles the highly challenging journey of the eight-person U.S. rowing team that won Olympic gold in 1936 with a...
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Takeaways from Schmidt, Rosenburg, and Eagle’s Trillion Dollar Coach by Peter Lorange
Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Johnathan Rosenburg, and Alan Eagle deals with the managerial philosophy of Bill Campbell, a...
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Takeaways from Melinda Gates’ The Moment of Lift by Peter Lorange
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and wife of Bill Gates, the founder and majority shareholder of Microsoft...
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Takeaways from Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Peter Lorange
Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is an important book on philosophy, but one that is hard to read! I finished this book with a...
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Takeaways from Howard Yu’s LEAP by Peter Lorange
This remarkable book provides important insights regarding how established complex organizations can reinvent themselves and prevent...
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