Siilasmaa, R., Transforming Nokia: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change
This is an important book, detailing how Nokia changed its strategy, by exiting the hand-held mobile phone business, where it was once...
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Book Review: Gergen, D., (2022), Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made.
The author, David Gergen, served as White House advisor to four US Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton), and now teaches at...
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Book Review: Rachman, G. (2022), The Age of the Strongman
This book consists of over 11 biographies of more or less dictatorial leaders, including Putin, Xi, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Orbán as well as...
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Book Review: Kagge, E., (2021), The Philosophy of an Explorer, Penguin
This book is written by the Erling Kagge, the Norwegian explorer, author, art collector, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician, who was the...
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Bremmer, I. (2022) The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
Introduction This book offers hope when it comes to how we might cope with the following three critical problems, facing us all in this...
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Book Review: Carreyrou, J. (2018), Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.
This book reports on the startup of the Silicon Valley firm Theranos in 2008, a company offering blood tests through a simple, small...
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Book Review: Mounk, Y., (2022), The Great Experiment, Penguin
This important book discusses possible paths for the various societies of this world – towards more authority and intolerance, or towards...
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Book Review: Goldstein, J., (2021), From Bronze to Bitcoin: The True Story of Made-up Things.
In recent months, I have been trying to understand more about decentralized encrypted digital currencies, including Bitcoin, as well as...
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Book Review: Wapshott, N. (2021), Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market.
This book chronicles key discussion between perhaps the two greatest economists from the end of World War II to the beginning of this...
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Book Review: Prashantham, Shameen (2022), Gorillas can Dance, Wiley by Peter Lorange
This book reports on a 15-year research effort to explore how large corporations might effectively partner with much smaller startups, so...
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Book Review: Dignity in a Digital Society: Making Tech Work for All of Us
This book discusses the dilemma of how to avoid too much regulation, or too little regulation, to impact economic growth. In the USA, we...
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Book Review: Gunther, M. (1985), The Zürich Axioms, Harriman Classics by Peter Lorange
This is a relatively old book, first published in 1985. However, I find this to be highly relevant also today. So, even though my review...
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Book Review: Clyne, A.H. & Jaffe, D.T., (2021), Finding Her Voice & Creating Legacy
Introduction This book focuses on women leaders with large sources of wealth. The authors have interviewed some 34 women leaders, some...
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Reinventing the Family Firm - Chapter 1 - by Peter Lorange
Defining the Family Business Portfolio Firm Introduction A family business can be defined as when a family owns a significant share and...
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Book Review: Perdue, M., (2021), The Frank Perdue Way: Simple Steps. Super Success, Tremendous
This book is important for business management. It chronicles what Frank Perdue did, which made him so successful! While there are many...
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Book Review: Rüsen, T.A., Kleve, H., & von Schlippe, A., (2021), Managing Business Family Dynasties:
This book reports on research carried out by these members of the staff of Witten Institute of Family Business, Witten/Heidecke...
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Book Review: Clark, D. (2021), The Long Game, Harvard Business Review Press by Peter Lorange
This book deals with what has become one of the most important dilemmas facing most leading managers today, namely, how to be a long-term...
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Book Review: Paul Polman and Andrew Winston, (2021), Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive
In this seminal book, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainability expert Andrew Winston explore how corporations might fix world...
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Book Review: Lavin, F., (2021), The Smart Business Guide to China E-Commerce by Peter Lorange
This is a very good book, and is timely as well. Frank Lavin has more than 30 years of experience helping companies succeed in China, the...
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Book Review: Reid Hoffman, with June Cohen and Deron Triff (2021), Masters of Scale by Peter Lorange
This book is based on more than 100 interviews, most of them aired on Reid Hoffman’s podcast Masters of Scale. Mr. Hoffman is widely...
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