— There is no shortage of business books promising to solve your people problems. Most of them offer the same recycled frameworks dressed up in new language. Infested, by veteran entrepreneur Tim Whitt, is something genuinely different — a management guide built entirely around a single extended metaphor that, improbably, works better the further it goes.…
About Ladys Patino
Good Work Is the Workplace Book We Actually Need Right Now
— Good Work: Transform Your Work from the Inside Out Dr. Kathryn Page | Wiley, 2026 | 224 pp. There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that’s hard to name. It’s not just tiredness. It’s the feeling of showing up, doing the work, ticking the boxes — and still feeling like something is fundamentally wrong. You’re…
Book Review: Stop Avoiding Your Numbers: The Guide to Financial Confidence for Small Business Owners
— The Guide to Financial Confidence for Small Business Owners By Andy Weins and Lynn Corazzi There are roughly 34.7 million small businesses in the United States, and if Andy Weins and Lynn Corazzi are right, the vast majority of their owners share a common secret: they’re avoiding their numbers. Not because they’re lazy or…
Book Review: Emmanuel Gobillot’s ‘Alive Inside: Unlock Your Leadership Advantage in the Age of AI’
— Emmanuel Gobillot’s Alive Inside: Unlock Your Leadership Advantage in the Age of AI (Routledge, Jan. 22, 2026) lands at just the right moment — not just because AI is everywhere, but because leaders everywhere are suddenly wondering what it means to be human when algorithms are smarter and faster than everyone in the room. Gobillot’s central…
Book Review: Untangling: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis by Joan K. Peters
— What are memoirs meant to be? In a recent piece in Brevity, memoir editor Jessica Hill described the memoir as “a crafted story of transformation.” As Hill wrote, “We don’t write memoir because it’s easy.” I might quibble with the use of “memoir” as plural as well as singular, which often goes along with…
Book Review: A Platform Mindset: Building a Culture of Collaboration, by Marcus Fontoura
— In his new book, tech veteran Marcus Fontoura draws from his experiences at the forefront of industry-shaping technological innovations among Silicon Valley’s most influential companies to describe how corporate leaders can effectively promote an integrated vision of technology within their organizations. Fontoura advocates the importance of instilling a “platform mindset” that serves to standardize organizational…
Book Review: Analytics the Right Way: A Business Leader’s Guide to Putting Data to Productive Use
— by Joe Sutherland and Tim Wilson Data and analytics have become so entrenched in how we think about business that we sometimes forget we need to know how to use them. The gap between best intentions and actual insights prompted data and AI experts Joe Sutherland and Tim Wilson to write Analytics the Right…
Book Review: Build Something: Building Products, Business & Culture: A Journey of Hard-Won Lessons and Impactful Outcomes, by Michael Cerda
— Whether looking to learn about leadership, innovation, the tech industry’s evolution, or simply an inspiring career journey, Michael Cerda’s new book, Build Something, touches all the bases. From his humble start after college as an inside sales rep cold calling to sell scanners, Cerda takes the reader on a remarkable journey that lands him in upper…
5 Books on Heart-Based Leadership
— What is heartful leadership? We have countless examples these days of what it isn’t, but the good news is there are leaders demonstrating empathy, mindfulness, and a sense of purpose in their decision making that goes beyond profits and worse, a clear sense of greed. There are heartful leaders out there, from longtime CEOs…
Book Review: OSINT: The Authoritative Guide to Due Diligence: Essential Resources for Critical Business Intelligence, 3rd Edition, by Cynthia Hetherington
— If OSINT isn’t on your radar, it likely needs to be. In Cynthia Hetherington’s new edition of OSNIT: The Authoritative Guide to Due Diligence, she offers an invaluable resource into the ever-changing world of Open Source Intelligence gathering. Not only does her book outline how a researcher can use available open sources to unpack a company’s…