October 15, 2013
Kare Anderson writes about Stew Friedman's BABY BUST: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family for Forbes.com:
October 15, 2013
Stew Friedman, author of BABY BUST: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family, writes about the modern man ("The New Knight in Shining Armor") in this morning's Daily Beast.
October 04, 2013
Dogfight by Fred Vogelstein is serialized (with cover treatment) in the New York Times Magazine: "And Then Steve Said, 'Let There Be an iPhone."
September 03, 2013
Mark C. Crowley's "5 Profound Insights on Success from a Wharton Professor Devoted to Understanding It" features G. Richard Shell and Springboard.
August 27, 2013
A Mayor's Life by David N. Dinkins has been selected as one of the Atlantic's Fall Essential Books of 2013.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/08/essential-books-fall-preview/68548/
August 24, 2013
The Economist reviews Our Political Nature by Avi Tuschman:
"Sages from philosophers to pollsters have long struggled to explain what makes voters lean left or right. As political animals, people are unpredictable. Why do conservative poor people vote against their economic interests? Why do privileged young intellectuals stump for the welfare state?
Some political scientists like to believe political preferences are rooted in “rational choices”. Sociologists claim that political inclinations are informed by a person’s home, institutions and social groups. Now it is time for the biologists and psychologists to weigh in, argues Avi Tuschman in his new book “Our Political Nature”. An anthropologist by training, he claims that evolutionary instincts shape political preferences—and inform partisanship—far more than income or what people watch on television…."
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21583976-evolutionary-roots-partisanship-gut
August 17, 2013
Kare Anderson writes about G. Richard Shell and his new book, Springboard, in her piece, "Double Up On Happiness and Meaning with Others" in Forbes.
April 19, 2013
Adam Grant's Give and Take debuts at #2 on the April 28th New York Times Nonfiction Best Seller list (right behind Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In).
Congratulations to Adam and to the Viking/Penguin team!
March 27, 2013
This Sunday's New York Times Magazine cover story ( "Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?") is a 6,000+ word Susan Dominus profile of Adam Grant, author of GIVE AND TAKE: A Revolutionary Approach to Success (Viking Penguin; pub date: Tuesday, April 9th).
Grant, 31, is the youngest-tenured and highest-rated professor at Wharton. He is also one of the most prolific academics in his field, organizational psychology, the study of workplace dynamics. Grant took three years to get his Ph.D., and in the seven years since, he has published more papers in his field’s top-tier journals than colleagues who have won lifetime-achievement awards. His influence extends beyond academia. He regularly advises companies about how to get the most out of their employees and how to help their employees get the most out of their jobs. It is Grant whom Google calls when “we are thinking about big problems we are trying to solve,” says Prasad Setty, who heads Google’s people analytics group. Plenty of people have made piles of money by promising the secrets to getting things done or working a four-hour week or figuring out what color your parachute is or how to be a brilliant one-minute manager. But in an academic field that is preoccupied with the study of efficiency and productivity, Grant would seem to be the most efficient and productive.. ...“Give and Take” incorporates scores of studies and personal case histories that suggest the benefits of an attitude of extreme giving at work.
Read the full piece here: http://nyti.ms/10iga66.
March 14, 2013
Douglas Rushkoff writes in this morning's Wall Street Journal about one of the themes in PRESENT SHOCK, our misunderstanding of how technology helps and hinders our well being.
"Technology has always given us more control over time—especially now at the dawn of the digital age. But no matter how precisely we can count our milliseconds, neither our bodies nor our businesses are proving as programmable as our computers.
Digital technology tends to make one minute look the same as any other. Still, try as we might to ignore them, the people who work for us, invest in us, and buy from us are guided by rhythms we ignore at our peril."
For full article (behind a firewall): http://on.wsj.com/15NsXBk
March 14, 2013
PRESENT SHOCK by Douglas Rushkoff gets a fantastic review by Janet Maslin in today's New York Times:
“Present Shock” is one of those invaluable books that make sense of what we already half-know. Playing on the title of Alvin Toffler’s influential 1970 “Future Shock,” which sounded an alarm about what Mr. Toffler called “a personal perception of too much change in too short a period of time,” Douglas Rushkoff analyzes a very different phenomenon. The future arrived a little while ago, he posits — maybe with Y2K, maybe with Sept. 11. Now it’s here. And we are stuck with “a diminishment of everything that isn’t happening right now — and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.”
For the full review: http://nyti.ms/X9Ek0J
January 25, 2013
Jeff Connaughton, author of THE PAYOFF: Why Wall Street Always Wins, plays a major role in this week's Frontline documentary, "The Untouchables." http://to.pbs.org/XB18VV