Reviews
Fit for Uncertainty: Lead with Purpose, Adapt to Change
Marianne Bachynski (Entrepreneur Books)
Seventy percent of transformation programs fail, and Marianne Bachynski has spent thirty years learning why. In Fit for Uncertainty, the veteran technology executive (Morgan Stanley, Citi, AIG) argues that in an era of AI-driven, warp-speed change, the old command-and-control leadership model is not just outdated but also a recipe for burnout and collapse. This book shows readers one compelling truth: uncertainty should not be viewed as an enemy to be controlled but as a condition to be accepted and embraced. Leaders who make an impact are adap...
Red Wine and Jazz
Mark Swanson (Independent)
Set against the backdrop of late '60s and early '70s Iowa, Red Wine and Jazz follows young musician Luke Abrams as he pursues his passion for music in a world increasingly enamored with rock. As he strives to earn his electric guitar from his jazz-loving mother, the story develops into a rich canvas of family ties, personal ambition, and the intoxicating lure of music. Luke's journey is not just about achieving his dreams; it's an exploration of love, identity, and the struggles of handling old alliances and new relationships. What ha...
Agentic Intelligence: Strategy at the Speed of Data
Manish Sood, Venkat Venkatraman (Forbes Books)
Your AI strategy is not failing because the models are weak; it is failing because your organization cannot think at the speed of its own data. That is the bracing wake-up call that powers Agentic Intelligence, in which Reltio founder Manish Sood and Boston University strategist Venkat Venkatraman argue that the next era of competition will not be won by intuition or algorithms alone, but by “agentic intelligence”: humans and machines sensing, understanding, deciding, and acting together on trusted, unified, real-time data. The book features te...
Greens Are Free
Dr. Stephanie Bernard (Atmosphere Press)
Three small words carry the power to undo decades of diet confusion in Stephanie Bernard’s new book, and they are the title itself: Greens Are Free. In this refreshingly honest guide, Physician Assistant, Registered Dietitian, and professor Stephanie Bernard delivers the wisdom gained from classrooms and a career spent in clinics in a simple but radical thesis: good and lasting health isn't found in quick fixes and fad diets, but in the combination of mindset, knowledge, and action. She structures the book in three phases: one, the book rebuild...
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The Why Not Advantage: How Small Probabilities Create Outsized Outcomes
Sanjay Manandhar (Rethink Books)
What if the odds you’ve been avoiding were never yours to begin with?In The Why Not Advantage: How Small Probabilities Create Outsized Outcomes, Sanjay Manandhar, who traveled from a Kathmandu home without a telephone to MIT at seventeen, eventually founding companies and helping to bring the Internet to Nepal, argues that probability is not an external fact but a personal calculation. Inspired by Bruno de Finetti’s mathematical claim that probability “only exists as a degree of belief in an individual's mind,” the author dismantles the fear of...
The Business of Storytelling: Inspire Action, Build Trust, and Drive Results Through Story
Don Yaeger (Forbes Books)
Facts inform, but stories transform—and Don Yaeger has spent a lifetime proving it.The Business of Storytelling is Yaeger’s masterclass on why storytelling is the most undervalued skill in business. The thirteen-time New York Times bestselling author builds a persuasive thesis drawing on decades of collaborations with icons such as Warrick Dunn, Michael Jordan, Walter Payton, and Sports Illustrated. He argues that storytelling is not an innate gift but a trainable skill, the “currency of kings and queens,” and one that builds trust, inspires ac...
Duck It!
C.O.B. (Grey Line Press)
C.O.B.'s Duck It! is set in 2035, two years after the PAN-R virus. The story follows Lionel Romero, a thirty-five-year-old landscaper from Fort Lauderdale, who sets out for the Midwest in a stolen golf cart truck after a virus wipes out 99% of humanity. With his mom’s bible, his father’s revolver, and a dream not to die in Florida, he abandons his childhood home and drives a stolen royal-blue electric golf cart truck (the “GCT”) toward Dubuque. What follows is a road-trip journal that is hilarious, profane, and surprisingly tender. C.O.B. gives...
What Really Matters: Find Meaning Amid Upheaval
Robert A Saul MD & Michael Cogdill (Koehler Books)
In an age of noise, weaponized misinformation, and frenzy for viral hype, Dr. Robert Saul and Emmy-winning journalist Michael Cogdill deliver a timely, most-needed compass for the soul. Inspired by the shooting at Columbine and refined through decades of civic engagement, professional courage, and frontline storytelling, What Really Matters: Find Meaning Amid Upheaval successfully conveys the message that a meaningful life is built not on viral influence or political victory, but on six interconnected pillars: truth, trust, science, civility, d...
Grunts, Gramps & Tanks: A Soldier’s Tales
Rick Bogdan (Bookbaby)
Rick Bogdan’s Grunts, Gramps & Tanks: A Soldier’s Tales follows the unpredictable journey of a disillusioned Chicago retail buyer, Tyler Gordon Willett, who impulsively enlists in the infantry in 1975 without telling his wife, Nancy. The teenage recruits at Fort Polk nickname him “Gramps” as he survives basic training, memorably marked by the “Private Dickhead” payday incident. He also endures the OSUT program, where a tank commander’s sweaty Coke inspires his ambitions. The narrative tracks his growth from a novice to an officer, through e...
Off Wall Street: How to Win at Short Selling by Betting Against the Crowd
Mark Roberts (Advantage Books)
Mark Roberts’s Off Wall Street is far more than a memoir of an exceptional investor; it is a brilliantly written manifesto for the independent mind venturing into the investment business. The book follows the author’s unique path, from a master’s in French literature and a family steel business to becoming the owner of Off Wall Street Consulting Group, which, in 2001, made history on Wall Street with its Enron call. The book develops a powerful argument: that short selling is not cynical betting against success, but a discipline that uncovers t...