Book Reviews | William Petruzzo

The Confidence Gap [Review]

by William | May 8, 2016

I’ve always had a sense that confidence played a bigger part in things than the textbooks were letting on. Of all the strangenesses of the human mind, “confidence” (yes, with suspicious quotes, too) is perhaps the most interesting to me. I generally...

The Happiness Hypothesis [Review]

by William | May 1, 2016

The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt is a book about something almost anyone with a religious background and a growing interest in science and psychology has probably wondered about. If you read almost any ancient religious text, you’ll find an awful lot...

Little Red Book of Selling [Review]

by William | Feb 13, 2016

Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles fo sales greatness: How to make sales FOREVER has way too many freaking subheadings to be taken seriously. Just kidding, but there are a totally unreasonable number of books about sales. I’ve...

Outsider in the White House [Review]

by William | Jan 9, 2016

Outsider in the White House is an autobiography of Bernie Sander’s career as a politician. Yes, another Bernie Sanders book. I think I’m halfway looking for confirmation that this guy is the real deal, but halfway looking for reasons not to get my hopes...

Fundamentals of Project Management

by William | Dec 14, 2015

The Fundamentals of Project Management by Joseph Heagney is a book about… the fundamentals of project management. Fundamentals is a book very much like A Compact Guide to the Complex World of Project Management. I decided to pick up another project management...

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