Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance between Intuition and Information by Christopher Frank, Paul Magnone, and Oded Netzer (Wiley, 2022) For as long as there have been decisions, people have used facts (lately known as data) to make them, along with reason...
Books
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making Tony Fadell HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (May 2022) “Everything begins with asking ‘Why?’” Simon Sinek It is also true that “Building anything begins with asking ‘Why?’” Sinek agrees with Peter...
Glass Half Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back
Glass Half Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg Harvard Business Review Press (April 2021) How many women’s careers have been half broken by barriers and biases? As you may or may not already know, the...
Spinning uncertainty into success
The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown by Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr, Harvard Business Review Press, 2022 Everywhere you turn, uncertainty seems to be on the rise. Dire climate predictions, unease in the workforce, novel...
Exit Path: A book review by Bob Morris
Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game Touraj Parang McGraw Hill (July 2022) How and why good exits happen when companies are bought, not sold. The reasons vary, of course, but most startups fail within five years after their launch. The same can be said of most...