Business for the Environment

Business Literature

Author’s Choice: Don’t Ignore the Transparency Imperative

Nell Minow, coauthor of Corporate Governance, introduces a lesson in corporate transparency from The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win, by Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen.

Seven Chapters of Strategic Wisdom

by Walter Kiechel III

A shortcut to the big themes in the conversation about corporate strategy.

Books in Brief:
Why “Built to Last” Companies Didn’t

by David K. Hurst

A review of How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In, by Jim Collins.

Author’s Choice: Goldman’s “We”-Conscious Culture

Greg Farrell, author of Corporate Crooks: How Rogue Executives Ripped Off Americans...and Congress Helped Them Do It!, highlights the cohesive corporate culture at Goldman Sachs that is on view in The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs, by Charles D. Ellis.

Books in Brief: A Path to Better Decisions

A review of Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, by Michael J. Mauboussin.

Books in Brief: The Clay Feet of Management Science

A review of The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong, by Matthew Stewart.

Books in Brief: A New Way to Look at Human Behavior

A review of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, by Michael S. Gazzaniga.

Author’s Choice: Charles Darwin, Management Guru

Seth Godin, author of Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, introduces a lesson on the role of diversity in business success from Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Your Self, by Alan M. Webber.

Author’s Choice: Performance Reviews on Steroids

Art Kleiner, author of The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management, uncovers an effective and ongoing way to create employee alignment and accountability in Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions, by Gary B. Cohen.

Author’s Choice: Managing Naturally

Walter Kiechel III, author of The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (forthcoming, March 2010), introduces an excerpt from Managing by Henry Mintzberg that proposes a more organic view of managers and their work.