Book Reviews
Reviews Are Coming In
Growth Is Dead: Now What? has now been out for two months and reviews are beginning to come in. Here are a few: A high-profile law-firm consultant offers a grim prognosis, and advice, for the upper echelons of the legal profession. He addresses a range of problems, such as the lack of growth in client
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Shameless You-Know-What
OK, cut a guy some slack, but I found this one of the most profoundly thoughtful reactions to Growth Is Dead: Now What? that I’ve seen (from a very recent review on Amazon): In last month’s Harvard Business Review (March 2013), Larry Downes and Paul F. Nunes suggest the first and best defense for market
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Wish You’d Been Here
As I hope many of you saw, we held a launch party for Growth Is Dead: Now What? here in New York about ten days ago, and some photos are now back. Our generous friends at Above the Law hosted the event, which was held at the NoMad Hotel on Broadway at 28th Street. We’re
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“Growth Is Dead” Launch Party
A gentle reminder, dear readers: Our friends at Above the Law have published a short interview with me about the genesis of Growth Is Dead (with a convenient link to the registration page for the launch party; remember it’s free). Hope to see you there!
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Growth Is Dead Party: Update
Update: Growth Is Dead: Now What? Book launch party Pete Kalis to join yours truly You don’t want to miss this Tuesday February 26/New York You’re invited! Dear Readers, To make the launch party for our new book, Growth Is Dead: Now What? even better, the irrepressible Pete Kalis will join in on the discussion. Not
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“Growth is Dead” Now an e-Book
We are delighted to announce that we have just published the complete 12-part series Growth is Dead as an e-book. Demand from you, Dear Readers, to be able to have the entire series available in one spot, was unprecedented and trying to satisfy those requests was frankly one of our primary motivations. (But we must confess
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Two Books
Today we’re talking about books. Specifically, Robert Frank’s The Darwin Economy and David Rose’s The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior. I believe the first–far better known–is a failure and the second–while too drily academic to gain a wide popular audience–is a success. Frank is a widely published and well-know economics professor at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate
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Jim Collins’ “How the Mighty Fall”
Jim Collins, author of the perennial business best-sellers Good to Great and Built to Last is back, and in this outing he presents what sounds like the most timely How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In. I must note that I count myself a big fan of his two earlier efforts,
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What I’m Reading
From time to time, people ask me what I’m reading when trying to figure out what is going on in the economy these days. A glib response might be, "anything I can get my hands on," but the question deserves a more thoughtful response, so herewith a book review and a few pointers to online
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Richard Susskind’s “The End of Lawyers?”
Ten years after publishing The Future of Law, Richard Susskind is back with what in many ways is an extended sequel, The End of Lawyers? If you don’t know Richard (disclosure: I do, and consider him a friend), it’s high time. From the dust jacket: "Richard Susskind is Honorary Professor of Law at Gresham College,
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