Our desks and nightstands are overflowing with books we’re skimming, reviewing, and reading to keep up with where business thought is going. Here’s what’s on the stack.
A Quick Guide for the Bewildered
Dan Wooldridge recommends a quick guide to new media and social media for InsideWork readers.
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Understanding Debt as a Story
Dan Wooldridge recommends reading this article by Margaret Atwood on the history and meaning of debt.
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So maybe we can’t really — it seems impossible that I’m about to write this — maybe we can’t just take everything we read at face value…
I mean, who sends you those crazy internet gossip emails? I’ll tell who thinks of me when they read something no reasonable person would take seriously: It’s Christian friends [...]
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InsideWork’s Geoff Finch, just back from Africa, offers a thoughtful reviews of Giles Bolton’s, Africa Doesn’t Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It. Spoiler alert: Africa matters.
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A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World
You and your team are stuck. It happens as you pursue and tackle ambitious, challenging, and world changing ideas and projects. This book is a practical and fearless way to regain the momentum…and the fun!
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How to raise kids who stand out from the crowd
How do you raise effective kids who become effective adults? Ingram presents principles and exercises to develop your child’s potential, values, and character while drawing closer to your child.
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Keys to Looking Good & Feeling Great
Achieving fitness after age 40 is tough. Nava outlines a total program — physical, directional, nutritional, emotional, mental, and spiritual. His success? People who follow his program stay with it 10 times longer than traditional programs.
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How to Build Value Through Values
Five breakthrough techniques: unconditional responsibility, unflinching integrity, authentic communication, impeccable commitments, right leadership
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Gardner outlines five premium thinking abilities: the disciplinary mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind.
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And How You Can Avoid Them
This is a book that has been in my personal library for twenty years. And though the advice given seems so basic in a universe of over-hyped business books, I am amazed that the same errors are still being made. I guess Coach John Wooden was right when he said that “excellence is the superlative [...]
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A Story of Economic Discovery
David Warsh has given us a non-technical survey of the theories of developmental economics from Adam Smith’s great work by a similar name down to the present day.
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Eight Principles for Creating and Preserving Wealth and Well-Being for You and Your Company Without Selling Out
Batstone, the executive editor of Sojourners magazine, among other endeavors, outlines eight principles for building corporate integrity and profitability without compromising your own values.
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Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn
People will only change when the pain of their current situation outweighs the perceived pain of trying something new. Coburn uses this logic to explain the successes and failures of new technologies.
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How Women Get Smart About Money
Barbara Stany grew up never worrying about money. As daughter to one of the founders of H&R Block, first her father, and then later her husband managed her money and cared for her…
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Economic Possibilities for Our Time
A challenging vision for how world poverty can be ended in the next twenty years.
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How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor
“Your doctor can’t be certain what’s going on inside your body, but technology will. Embedding the knowledge of doctors in silicon will bring a breakout technology to healthcare, and we will soon see an end of medicine as we know it.”
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The New Science of Success
Building on multiple intelligence theory, social intelligence is shown to be the key to success at work and life.
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Design, Technology, Business, Life
Simplicity = Sanity. This is the premise of the book for an overly complicated and increasingly complex world. Ten laws to help us move toward simplicity in design, technology, business and life.
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The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future
A sourcebook on the hard facts shaping our future. 44 concise analyses.
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Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time
Summaries of seventeen marketing classics.
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How to Turn Creativity into a Powerful Business Advantage
How do you create profit-driving creativity? By using creative leverage. Learn to stimulate it and channel it properly in order to solve your marketing and branding problems.
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How it will be created and how it will change our lives
The authors of the acclaimed Future Shock describe how tomorrow’s wealth will be created and by whom. They describe how the deep fundamentals such as time, space, and knowledge are different in First, Second, and Third Wave economies.
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Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
Pfeffer and Sutton point out that executives often make decisions based on gut feel, what’s worked in the past, recommendations from others, and conventional wisdom.
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