Sunday Book Review

Sunday Book Review

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Sunday Book Review episodes

  • April 13, 2025, The Books on Trade and Tariffs Edition

    In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone who might be curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. Today, we look at five books that help to explain the current trade, tariff, and sanctions situation.

    1. Why Politicians Lie About Trade: … and What You Need to Know About It by Dmitry Grozoubinski

    2. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein & Michael Pettis

    3. Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations: Clashing Egos, Inflated Ambitions, and the Great Shambles of the World Trade System by Paul Blustein

    4. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang

    5. No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers by Robert Lighthizer

    Resources:

    Five books to boost your understanding of tariffs and trade wars by Martin Wolf, Alan Beattie, and Martin Sandbu in the FT

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    6 min
  • April 6, 2025, The Books on Culture Edition

    In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone who might be curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. Today, we look at four books on culture.

    1. The Power of Culture by Laura Hamill
    2. Culture is Everything by Jeff Veyera
    3. Culture by Design by David Friedman
    4. Culture Is The New Leadership by Benjamin Ortlip

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      6 min
    5. March 30, 2025, The Information Systems Edition

      In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone who might be curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. Today, Tom Fox looks at four 2024/25 books on information systems.

      1. Knowledge Management by Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Rajiv Sabherwal, and Richard Kumi
      2. Management and Information Technology after Digital Transformation, edited by Peter Ekman, Peter Dahlin, and Christina Keller
      3. Managing Information Technology 2nd Edition by Francisco Castillo and Korina Monoso
      4. Business Information Systems by Paul Bocij

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        6 min
      5. March 23, 2025, The Hard-Boiled Edition

        In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. Today, we look at five books as an entrée into the hard-boiled detective fiction genre.

        1. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
        2. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
        3. The Galton Case: A Lew Archer Novel by Ross Macdonald
        4. Sleep With Slander by Dolores Hitchens
        5. Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky

          Resources:

          Classic Private-Eye Detective Novels: A Starter Pack in the New York Times

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          6 min
        6. March 16, 2025, The Business Books for March Edition

          In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. Today, we look at four business books recommended by the FT.

          1. Defy The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes by Dr. Sunita Sah
          2. ‘Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication by Andrew Brodsky
          3. ‘Fewer Rules, Better People: The Case for Discretion by Barry Lam
          4. ‘The Insider's Guide to Innovation at Microsoft by Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin

            Resources:

            Business Books: What to Read This Month, in the FT.

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            6 min
          5. March 9, 2025, The Defending the Mind Edition

            In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. Today, Tom looks at three books defending the mind against the digital world’s age of attention distractions.

            1. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
            2. The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Christine Rosen
            3. Aflame: Learning from Silence by Pico Iyler

              Resources:

              How human technology is changing human experience. By Jane Shaw in the FT

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              6 min
            4. March 2, 2025, The Getting Organized Edition

              In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. Today, we look at the top books on getting organized.

              1. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson
              2. Organizing from the Inside Out, Second Edition: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life by Julie Morgenstern
              3. ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life: Strategies that Work from an Acclaimed Professional Organizer and a Renowned ADD Clinician by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau
              4. How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by KC Davis LPC

                Resources:

                5 Decluttering Books to Bring Order to Chaos. In the NYT

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                6 min
              5. February 23, 2025 the Legal Thrillers edition

                In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive or anyone who might be curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events or anything else that might interest me. Today we look at top legal thrillers with great trials as a part of the story. 


                1.    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper

                2.     Presumed Innocent by Scott Thurow

                3.    A Time to Kill, by John Grisham

                4.    The Stolen Hours, by Allen Eskens


                Resource

                7 Great Legal Thrillers. By Robin Gigl in the NYT


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                6 min
              6. February 16, 2025 The Books on AI Edition

                In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone who might be curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. Today, we have a five-book look at the top books on AI for 2025.

                1. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
                2. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil
                3. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
                4. Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson
                5. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Harari

                  Resources:

                  The Best Books on AI in 2025. In FiveBooks.com

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                  6 min
                6. February 9, 2025, The Business Fairness at Work Edition

                  In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone who might be curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. Today, we look at books on fairness in business.

                  1. Make Work Fair, by Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi
                  2. 99% Perspiration, by Adam Chandler
                  3. Judgement at Work, by Andrew Likierman
                  4. Inspire, by Adam Galinsky

                    Resources:

                    Business Books: what to read this month. In the FT

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                    6 min

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