Category: Book Review
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Book Review: Descubrí que estaba muerto – por João Paulo Cuenca
Este es un libro que compré durante nuestras vacaciones de Diciembre 2023 en México. Lo encontré en una librería en Mérida, Yucatán, ubicada sobre la avenida Paseo Montejo, emblemática de la ciudad. El título y descripción del libro me llamaron la atención en forma inmediata. Está escrito por João Paulo Cuenca, quien es un escritor…
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Book Review: Balancing Acts – Unleashing the Power of Creativity in Your Life and Work
The book is written by Daniel Lamar, Vice Chairman of the Cirque Du Soleil. I got this book as a present that was given to all participants that attended UNICON’s 2023 Team Development Conference 9TDC), hosted by HEC Montreal in Montreal, Canada. I serve as emeritus board member of UNICON, and Daniel was one of…
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Book Review: The Geek Way – The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results
The book is written byAndrew McAfee, who is is New York Times bestselling co-author of The Second Machine Age. He is the co-director of the IDE and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. As presented in his bio, his research investigates how information technology changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete.…
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Book Review: Public Values Leadership – Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals
This book is written by Barry Bozeman and Michael M. Crow. I received this book directly from President Crow’s office, as part of the books and references that he shares with ASU leadership quite often to communicate ASU’s vision, rationale and priorities. The twenty main takeaways that I got out of this book are presented…
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Book Review: Experiential Intelligence – Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs
The main thesis of this book, written by Soren Kaplan, is that “Experiential Intelligence reveals how our past experiences impact our present success and future opportunities in ways we often don’t recognize.” The author claims that, while we cannot change what has happened to us or how we have responded to it, within our unique…
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Book Review: How the West Brought War to Ukraine – Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe
This book is written by Benjamin Abelow, who has worked in Washington, DC, writing, lecturing, and lobbying Congress about nuclear arms policy. Abelow holds a B.A. in modern European history from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine. I went through this book to get a different perspective…
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Book Review: El Conejo en la Cara de la Luna – Ensayos sobre la mitología de la tradición mesoamericana
Decidí comprar este libro durante una visita rápida a la librería del Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) en Toluca, mi ciudad natal. El título y descripción general del libro atrajeron mi atención, al ilustrar aspectos interesantes de tradiciones mesoamericanas. El libro está escrito por Alfredo López Austin, quien es considerado uno de los más destacados…
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Book Review: The New Learning Economy
The book is written by Martin Betts and Michael Rosemann. Martin is Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, having served as Deputy Vice Chancellor of Engagement until 2020. He leads the higher education sector with experience from seven universities in three continents. He is co-founder of HEDx, impacting higher education through a podcast, advisory services, and…
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Book Review: High-Velocity Culture Change – A Handbook for Managers
This handbook is written by Price Pritchett and Ron Pound. I received it from President Michael Crow’s office, as part of the key references that his office usually distributes so Arizona State University (ASU) leadership understands the ‘why,’, ‘what,’ ‘who,’ ‘how’ and ‘when’ associated to the vision that ASU deploys as a public enterprise. The…
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Book Review: Learning Planetizen Manifesto – Together Tackling the Challenges of the 21st Century
The book is written by Franciois Taddei, who is based in France and who I met during a visit he made to Arizona State University (ASU) to explore collaboration opportunities. He gave me the book as a present by the end of our conversation. The image below presents a brief message he included to summarize…
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Book Review: The Fifth Wave – The Evolution of American Higher Education
The book is written by Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University. Malcolm Gladwell describes President Crow and this book as follows: “In a perfect world, we would clone Michael Crow, so every university would have the same advantage as Arizona State University. Until that happens, The Fifth Wave is our next best option.” Robert…
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Book Review: Prescriptive Analytics – The Final Frontier for Evidence-based Management and Optimal Decision-Making
The book is written by Dursun Delen, who serves as Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU). I decided to go through this book to see if it would present additional and useful ways to address the Prescriptive Analytics broader vision under a business…
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Book Review: The Next Education Workforce – How Team-based Staffing Models Can Support Equity and Improve Learning Outcomes
I received this book as a gift from Carole Basile, who serves as dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (MLFTC) at Arizona State University, by the end of an early February meeting that we had with her. The book outlines a key part of MLFTC’s vision for the future of the education workforce…
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Book Review: Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology – The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America
The book is written by Allan Collins and Richard Halverson. I went through this book after my wife had to read it as one of the main references within one course of Arizona State University’s Masters in Learning Sciences, which she is currently studying. The overall vision of education in this book is structured around…
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Book Review: Failure to Disrupt – Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education
The book is written by Justin Reich, who serves as Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Director of the Teaching Lab Systems at MIT. Overall, the book aims to present an argument against the overestimation of the power of technology to profoundly alter the ways educational institutions operate and how students learn. The author aims…
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Book Review: The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli
The book is written by Carlo Rovelli, who is an Italian physicist and specialist in quantum gravity research about time in physics. I was curious to read this book after a couple of former colleagues at the University of Chicago, specialized in the Quantum Mechanics field, recommended me to go through it. The twenty-seven takeaways…
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Book Review: Designing the New American University, by Michael Crow
I went through this book for the first time back in 2015 after Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University (ASU), published it with William B. Dabbars. Afterwards, when I accepted a job offer to join ASU in June 2021, I went again through some of the highlights that I got out of it and…
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Book Review: Back to Basics. Data Analysis – From Preparing and Scrubbing Your Data to Using Data Visualization Design
The book is written by Lillian Pierson, Meta S. Brown and Paul McFredies. I decided to go through this book to see if it would present additional and useful ways to address the data analysis broader vision under a business perspective, which is what I teach for the Master’s in Business and Master’s in Management…
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Book Review – The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
This book was written by Randy Pausch, a computer science professor that was asked to deliver a talk titled ‘The Last Lecture.’ While a lot of university professors give this kind of talks where they are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them, this was a very special…
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Book Review: Viajar por la Vida
Este libro fue escrito por Gaby Perez Islas, quien es Licenciada en Literatura Latinoamericana con estudios a nivel maestría en Tanatología. Tiene diplomados en Logoterapia, Codependencia y Suicidología. Tomé la decisión de leer este libro ya que mi madre, después de la muerte de mi padre, empezó a leer algunas de sus obras como parte…
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Book Review: What Millennials Want From Work – How to Maximize Engagement in Today’s Workforce
This book is written by Jeenifer J. Deal and Alec Levenson, who are part of the Center for Creative Leadership and the Center for Effective Organizations, respectively. I bought this book during a visit I made to the Center for Creative Leadership in North Carolina in 2017 and, while I read it back then, I…
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Book Review: Atomic Habits – Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
The book is written by James Clear, who is an author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, and Entrepreneur, among others. I read this book right after it was published back in 2018, but had a chance to put together this review…
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