Best-selling author and organizational psychologist Robert Sutton shares insights from his latest book, The Friction Project, which looks at how companies manage obstacles and turn them into bene...
Tom Ehrenfeld reviews What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Sustainable Growth, by Matthew May and Pablo Dominguez.
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Lean-for-the-modern-company?rssid=business-book&gko=4e922
Mike Jakeman reviews Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis, by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind. The sweeping philosophical history argues that the...
In his new book, Adam Bryant shares tactics that up-and-coming leaders can use to prove they are ready for the next challenge.
Daniel Akst reviews How Big Things Get Done, by Bent Flyvbjerg, a University of Oxford expert on the mega-troubles of megaprojects, and Dan Gardner, a journalist who helped Flyvbjerg convey in cr...
Drawing business lessons from literature, Daniel Akst shines a light on the essential qualities of leadership, as espoused in a 1960 novel by the former executive Cameron Hawley.
Mike Jakeman reviews Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, by Jenny Odell, the latest in a corpus of books that questions old paradigms about the meaning of time and work.
Tom Ehrenfeld reviews The Entrepreneurs: The Relentless Quest for Value, by Derek Lidow, which analyzes the factors that give rise to entrepreneurs--and, in turn, the important social changes bro...
Daniel Akst looks for leadership lessons in the 1991 film Other People's Money, set in the heyday of corporate raiders.
Mike Jakeman reviews Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It, a book that explores the intricacies of the age-old insurance industry.
In The Burnout Challenge, pioneering researchers Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter argue that companies aren't treating employee burnout properly when they focus solely on the individuals suff...
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Profiles-in-burnout?rssid=business-book&gko=7fd4a
In her new book, Sally Helgesen looks at the triggers that leave us divided and defeated, and the practices that can help colleagues, teams, and organizations rise together.
In Unbreakable: Building and Leading Resilient Teams, business professors Bradley Kirkman and Adam Stoverink tackle the problem of how to gird your team against the setbacks that disrupt operatio...
Mike Jakeman reviews The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism, by Leon Wansleben, which argues that central bankers were not merely lulled into a false sense of security by ...
Daniel Akst finds lessons for business leaders in H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay. Published in 1908, it is an eerily prescient novel that's both a mordant critique of business and one of the best books...
https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Like-mountain-air-in-the-veins?rssid=business-book&gko=95512
The new book Why Managers Matter, by B-school professors Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein, examines the bossless company narrative promoted by management thinkers such as Gary Hamel and Frederic Lalo...
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Can-bossless-management-work?rssid=business-book&gko=34c3d
Mike Jakeman reviews Escape from Model Land, by Erica Thompson, which contends that overreliance on mathematical models is harmful for decision-making in the real world.
In The Power of Employee Resource Groups, the diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant Farzana Nayani provides a practical handbook for ensuring that ERGs, a ubiquitous feature in large enterp...
Tom Ehrenfeld reviews Annie Duke's Quit, a book that explores why we stay in jobs and relationships when they no longer serve us--and how to know when it's the right time to quit.
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Could-it-be-quitting-time?rssid=business-book&gko=aa21d
Daniel Akst reviews Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance between Intuition and Information, by Christopher Frank, Paul Magnone, and Oded Netzer, which explores how managers can use the t...
Mike Jakeman reviews Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, a book that skillfully weaves together the scientific, economic, and political history of compute...
Daniel Akst revisits Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, a lesser-known work by the Florentine political philosopher that nevertheless has a great deal to teach us about leadership.
https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/The-other-Machiavelli?rssid=business-book&gko=ba64d
Tom Ehrenfeld reviews Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr's The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown, a clever self-help resource that offers a guiding hand throu...
Mike Jakeman reviews Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, by UC Berkeley economics professor J. Bradford DeLong, who seeks to understand why the supercharged gr...
Daniel Akst reads The Comfort Letter, by Arthur R.G. Solmssen, a 1975 novel about a lawyer, an empire builder, and a debt offering that sheds light on the complex obligations of professionals to ...
https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/The-letter-of-the-law?rssid=business-book&gko=fa353
Mike Jakeman reviews Stanford Business School professor Paul Oyer's An Economist Goes to the Game, which explores the quirks of sports through the lens of economic theory.
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Sports-by-the-numbers?rssid=business-book&gko=19fde
Daniel Akst identifies lessons for managers in Glengarry Glen Ross, the transfixing film made from David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title.
https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Lessons-in-mismanagement?rssid=business-book&gko=62c31
Tom Ehrenfeld reviews Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source, by Kathryn Judge, and discusses the nascent threat that, she argues, middlemen play in today'...
In their new book, Decision Leadership, professors Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman peg leadership success to the ability to make better decisions throughout the organization. To help companies d...
Mike Jakeman reviews The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It, by Jon Danielsson, who argues that systemic financial crises are difficult to p...
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Why-economies-crash?rssid=business-book&gko=80ced