book reviews

An LLM cannot write a cohesive, novel-length narrative from start to finish. At present, ChatGPT can produce roughly 600 words at a time, so in order to complete a novel, a human has to feed it prompts and then collage its outputs into a…

The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships with Their Jobs by Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter, Harvard University Press, 2022  After New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern unexpectedly announced her resignation on…

Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company by Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein, Public Affairs, 2022 If you’ve been feeling like your leadership contributions are underappreciated, add a copy of Why Managers Matter to…

The Power of Employee Resource Groups: How People Create Authentic Change by Farzana Nayani, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022 In 1964, in the aftermath of race riots in Rochester, New York, Joseph Wilson, the CEO who transformed the…

Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices by Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman, Yale University Press, 2022 “We think of organizations as decision factories,” write professors Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman in…

Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate by Barry Nalebuff, Harper Business, 2022  Anyone who has been the underdog in a negotiation is going to eat up Barry Nalebuff’s new book, Split the Pie. The Milton Steinbach Professor at…

Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation by Ayelet Fishbach, Little, Brown Spark, 2022 In the early years of the last century, Hanoi had a rat problem. To solve it, the French colonial government placed a one-cent…

The New Political Capitalism: How Business and Societies Can Thrive in a Deeply Politicized World by Joe Zammit-Lucia, Bloomsbury, 2022 The argument that businesses today need to be more politically aware regarding their operations and…

Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson, Harvard Business Review Press, 2022 Recently, someone on LinkedIn asked me for career advice. LOL. The ink line of my career is a random squiggle with lots…

If there is any concept from her books that Palmer hopes will catch on, like “robot” and “cyberspace” did for other authors, it is a model of living called a bash'. The word is derived from a Japanese term, ibasho, which means “a place…