A review of Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, by Michael J. Mauboussin.
A review of The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong, by Matthew Stewart.
A review of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
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.
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.
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.
Western Dominance in Decline
In Search of the Silver Lining
The Capable and the Failed