Book Reviews
Review: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The power law. The Pareto Principle. Winner-takes-all. They all recognize an ecosystem where most of the benefits—and profits, as is often the case—accrues to a handful of individual entities, the theory suggesting that this type of…
Review: Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy
Inventions form many of the foundations of modern society. Many are easily recognizable from children's textbooks: the lightbulb, railroads, the printing press, the internet. Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy explores a set of complementary inventions. This…
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…
