I’m not a big sports fan and I’m certainly not a fan of athletes as heroes. But I’ve been intrigued by Pete Carroll of the Seahawks. I read that he views his job as making everyone in the Seahawks organization the best they can be. That’s how I view the job of any business manager. […]
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Book Review: Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty
Are you tired of bad news? Me too. Let me offer you a short respite from all the doom and gloom. The topic today is beauty and, specifically, a review of a book titled, Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty. Do a Google search on Beauty and you’ll get pages of female cosmetic products. This book isn’t […]
Book Review: Spillover
This book was loaned to me by a friend who is a microbiologist at the UW Medical School. He marked three or four chapters for me to read but it was so interesting I read the whole thing. The subtitle is Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic and it serves as interesting background on […]
Book Review: Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell is one of the most popular authors in the world. His previous titles include: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw and David and Goliath. Talking to Strangers is his first book in six years. The gap is mostly because he commands six-figure speaking fees and has gotten heavily involved in […]
Book Review: This Time is Different
This Time is Different, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, is subtitled, Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. The book has been called “a masterpiece” and “…the best empirical investigation of financial crises ever published.” In this amazing book, the authors, two eminent economists, survey and chart 800 years of financial cycle booms and […]
Book Review: Other Minds
This fascinating book is subtitled, The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. So, no, this isn’t a business book. It is more of an ‘expand your perspectives book’ or a ‘think outside the box book.’ For the author, Peter Godfrey-Smith, I give him my highest compliment: This book is extremely thought provoking. […]
Book Review: How to be Rich
Every year there are lots of new business books, often on trending topics. Occasionally, I like to go back and read an old business book. Sometimes I’ll do this because the book is a classic and worth revisiting. Other times, I like to read an old business book to see whether the book’s advice or […]
A New Model of Transportation
Last week, I provided a book review of Autonomy—The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How it Will Reshape Our World. This week, I’m following up with what this might actually look like. First, it should be stated that the traditional car companies are all working on this, but they are behind the tech companies, […]
Book Review: Autonomy
The subtitle of this books explains what Autonomy is all about: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—and How it Will Reshape Our World. The author of the book is Lawrence Burns with Christopher Shulgan as the co-author. Published in 2018, the book tells the story about how we’ve gotten to where we are now, […]
Book Review: The Big Short
The Big Short, subtitled Inside the Doomsday Machine, was written by Michael Lewis in 2010. The book is about the financial mess suffered as a result of the subprime mortgage meltdown in 2005-2008. Lewis is one of my favorite authors. He wrote the classic Liar’s Poker, which I still think is one of the best […]