Book Reviews
The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter Harvard Business Review Press (March 2018) “We have no neurological alarm system for slow change.” So what? A…
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How We Work: Live Your Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind Leah Weiss Harper Wave/An imprint if HarperCollins (March 2018) “What many people don’t realize is that two goals — a paycheck and a sense of…
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The One-Percent Edge: Small Changes That Guarantee Relevance and Build Sustainable Success Susan Solovic with Ray Manley AMACOM (February 2018) How to “identify opportunities and strategies, prioritize them, plan for them, execute, measure, adjust or abandon, and repeat” The business…
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Fusion: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies Denise Lee Yohn Nicholas Brealey Publishing/An imprfnt of John Murray Press (March 2018) How to integrate brand and culture to empower an enterprise, whatever its size and nature may…
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The CEO Next Door: Based on a Breakthrough Study of Over 2,600 Leaders Elena L. Botelho and Kim R. Powell Currency/An imprint of Crown Publishing Group (March 2018) How and why ordinary people are able to achieve extraordinary results The…
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Crack the C-Suite Code: How Successful Leaders Make It to the Top Cassandra Frangos Wharton Digital Press (March 6, 2018) Personal growth and professional development are all about the journey, not the destination. Obviously, Cassandra Frangos is fond of metaphors.…
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Leadership Wisdom: Lessons from Poetry, Prose, and Curious Verse Bob Vanourek Motivational Press (2016) Don’t try to find the “right” answers unless and until you first know which questions to ask Those who aspire to lead others must embark on…
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Winning Speech Moments: How to Achieve Your Objective with Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere Jay Oza 5ToolGroup (2017) How to respond to the unique challenges of preparing and then delivering a “high stakes speech” Ignore this book’s over-cooked subtitle and focus on…
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The Motivation Myth : How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win Jeff Haden Portfolio/Penguin Group (2018) How and why “motivation is a result,” not a spark Long ago, I concluded that I could not motivate another person but…
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