Book Reviews
Co-Create: How Your Business Will Profit from Innovative and Strategic Collaboration David Nour St,. Martin’s Press (May 2017) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” African proverb I agree with David…
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The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative Thinking Rowan Gibson John Wiley & Sons (2o15) How to establish a culture within which everyone’s abilities are free to enrich high-impact innovation throughout the enterprise First of all, I…
Read MoreBeyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes Margaret Heffernan TED Books/Simon & Schuster (2015) The “paradox of organizational culture”: it makes a big difference although comprised of small actions, habits, and choices. I have read and reviewed all of…
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The Magnetic Leader: How Irresistible Leaders Attract Employees, Customers, and Profits Roberta Chinsky Matuson Bibliomorion (March 2017) Why some people attract and retain followers but most don’t Opinions are divided about the importance of charisma to effective leadership. My own…
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The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern PublicAffairs (June 6, 2017 The Ultimate Collaboration on “the other side of complexity” Up front, I share a response to this book’s subtitle:…
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By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 Michael Green Columbia University Press (2017) Why and how — throughout its history — the U.S. has had to secure its position in the Asia…
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Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win Chris Kuenne and John Danner Harvard Business Review Press (June 2017) If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go…
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Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead Kenneth Gronbach with M.J. Moye AMACOM (Apfil 2017) How to identify and then pursue effectively any/all upside opportunities that result from shifting demographics In this volume, Kenneth Gronbach explains that, in general,…
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METASKILLS: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related…
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Choose Resilience: Break Out of Your Comfort Zone Using the Power of Emotional Intelligence Jen Shirkani Shirkani LLC (May 2017) The MOST Model of Resilience: How to accelerate personal growth and professional development It may be a matter of semantics…
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