Book Reviews
Review: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
If there's a category of literature that's invites more skepticism than self-help books, it may be self-help parenting books. The genre combines the pseudo-science of pop psychology and copious amounts of anecdotal evidence, with the added…
Review: The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility
Leader humility is a tendency to feel and display a deep regard for others' dignity. This definition of "leader humility" shows up in first chapter of The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations — Great Results. It&…
The Expanse Finales
So I've been a bit behind, but I recently finished with both The Expanse novel series—with Leviathan Falls as the ninth and final book—as well as the sixth and final season of The Expanse TV series…
Review: The Aspirational Investor
The Aspirational Investor is a book by the Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch that introduces a slightly different way to think about investments. It’s not looking to overturn how to think about investing; the author readily admits that…
Review: Arriving Today
In the Prologue chapter of Arriving Today , the author makes an unusual concession: they wrote a long book, and sometimes it can get into technical nitty-gritty that strays a bit far afield from the logistical arc premised by the subtitle,…
Review: The Innovation Stack
For the past couple of years, I've been narcassistically keeping an eye out for a tell-all book about Square. Of the cohort of startups founded in the late 2000s to early 2010s, we were certainly one of the…
