Ego Is the Enemy is about building awareness of the negative effects of our ambition. According to Holiday, “precisely what drives us to the top makes us vulnerable to the darker side of the psyche.” That darker side is ego. Ego will stand in the way of truly being successful…

Google, Apple and other successful companies in the tech industry have recognized that by laying down unilateral power over their employees and giving them agency and accountability, they can drive innovation and achieve results. One way they make that work is by building a culture of feedback: getting, giving and…

The crux of The Innovator’s Dilemma is that smart managers from successful companies fail to navigate disruptive innovation because they are focused on responding to the needs of their current customers and on investments that promise the highest returns. Established firms have a tendency to move upmarket in search of…

I really love the core premise of Essentialism. The idea is that by eliminating nonessentials in our life and work, we can have a bigger impact on and derive more meaning out of the things that are important to us. In McKeown’s words, “Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for…

Negotiation is an everyday part of finding value in one’s professional and personal life. Never Split the Difference makes the case for a strategic, information-based and empathetic approach to negotiation. As a measure of its importance in preparing graduate students for the business world, I actually took two “immersion” courses…

Laszlo Bock has been the VP of People Operations at Google since 2006 and is a thought-leader in the HR space. I picked up Bock’s Work Rules for ideas on how, as a leader, I can make the best out of new tools and processes being implemented at Expedient. If…

(Re)Born in the USA is a memoir written by ½ of the duo from the soccer podcast and TV show Men in Blazers. In it, Roger Bennett chronicles his love of America growing up in Liverpool in the 1980s. “Rog” portrays an indelible contrast between the darkness of Thacher-era north-England…