Book Reviews
The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback Nigel Travis PublicAffairs (September 2018) The almost unlimited power of purposeful questions, positive pushback, and civil debate In our personal lives as well as in our careers, if we…
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Growing Influence: A Story of How to Lead with Character, Expertise, and Impact Ron Price and Stacy Ennis Greenleaf Book Group Press (September 2018) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” …
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Open to Think: Slow Down, Think Creatively and Make Better Decisions Dan Pontefract Figure.1 Publishing (September 2018) “Keep your minds open — but not so open that your brains fall out.” Walter Kotschnig Dan Pontefract’s third book focuses on thinking.…
Read MoreThe Magic of Thinking Big David J. Schwartz Simon & Schuster (1959) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford Opinions are divided — sometimes sharply divided — with regard to self-help books. I…
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs Ken Kocienda St. Martin’s Press (September 2018) How and why, in order to “understand what makes Apple what it is, its essence, you need to understand software”…
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Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals about the Future of Strategy Ming Zeng Harvard Business Review Press (September 2018) How Alibaba is “reconstructing entire industries with almost every business, be it traditional, or brand new” In a previously published book,…
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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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