Nicholas Carr writes beautiful, big-picture books on technology and culture. In The Glass Cage, his focus is on automation.

No matter how smart we are, if we don’t train ourselves to notice what is not immediately in front of us, then we cannot make the best decisions.

The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh, Harvard Business Review Press, 193 pages, $25. 00, Hardcover, July 2014, ISBN 9781625275776 As I read The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age, I wondered if I was really the right person to be reviewing this book. In the first few pages, I learn that referring to your company as a “family” isn’t appropriate; and that the assumed employee/employer fidelity founded on a sort of professional monogamy is archaic.