Book Reviews
Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied Howard Yu Publich Affairs/Hachette Book Group (June 2018) How to “move across knowledge disciplines to leverage or create new knowledge in how a product is made or service…
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Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey John L. Hennessy Stanford University Press (September 2018) Valuable lessons to be learned and shared from a 25-year leadership journey…thus far As I began to read this thoughtful and thought-provoking book, I was again…
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Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds–From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity Randy Komisar and Jantoon Riegersman HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (2018) Probably the best single source for the…
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Costovation: Innovation That Gives Your Customers Exactly What They Want–And Nothing More Stephen Wunker and Jennifer Luo Law HarperCollins Leadership/An imprint of HarperCollins (August 2018) How and why “innovation and cost-cutting can be a powerful duo, capable of shaping markets…
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Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself Mike Michalowicz Portfolio/Penguin (August 2018) Here is a system that can help almost anyone to grow a business that can (almost) run itself Mike Michalowicz (my-KAL-oh-wits) once asked Ryan Lee how he has…
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There’s Not an App for That!: Communication Skills to Become an Irreplaceable Leader Cary Pfeffer Wise Ink (2015) How to Master Communication Skills That Technology Cannot Replicate Here is a paradox: Although it is easier than ever before to communicate…
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This Is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters Drew Dudley Hachette Books (August 2018) “All that matters are the actions of today.” I agree with Drew Dudley that we cannot undo what was done before but we…
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Harvard Business Review Manager’s Handbook: The 17 Skills Leaders Need to Stand Out Various Contributors Harvard Business School Press (2017) “So much of what we call management consists in making it more difficult for people to work.” Peter Drucker It…
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Nevertheless, She Persisted: True Stories of Women Leaders in Tech Pratima Rau Gluckman FriesenPress (April 2018) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey Warren Buffett once observed, “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are…
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Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices That Will Make or Break Your Company Tiffani Bova Portfolio/Penguin (August 2018) How to achieve and then sustain “countercyclical” and profitable growth Not all growth is progress, of course, and Tiffani Bova obviously understands…
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