Book Reviews
Review: Trillion Dollar Coach
Even executives of the Fortune 500 need coaches, too. And if a number of these companies happen to be in Silicon Valley, at a time when the technology industry is dominating the upper-end of public market capitalizations and valuations,…
Review: Give and Take
In the world of Adam Grant's Give and Take , people can be divided into roughly 3 camps: * Takers, who look to take from others for their own benefit, or at least see success as a zero-sum game…
Review: Children of Time
Science fiction usually has to cheat with space travel. The distance and time scales required to work through anything interesting in the grand vastness of interstellar travel is incomprehensible. If sci-fi stories actually try to stay true with physics-…
Review: The Making of a Manager
There is certainly no shortage of management books[1]. Most of the good ones are written by tenured executives, while the advice bestowed by management consultants tends to be hit-or-miss. I've come across more books recently…
Review: Creative Selection
Within two chapters, I realized that I may not be the right audience for Creative Selection. A book written by a software engineer at Apple through its revival of the Mac and introduction of the iPhone, it goes through—in…
Review: Hit Refresh
As of this writing, Microsoft is one of the most valuable companies in the world, with a market cap in the $800 billion+ range in early 2019. It's a spectacular reversal of fortunes, when only a couple years…
