Book Reviews
Listen or Lose Out: How to Avoid Miscommunication, Improve Relationships, and Get More Done Faster Robert Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton AMACOM (2018) For many people, this can be “a new and much more effective way of listening.” Long ago…
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Extraordinary Influence: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others Tim Irwin John Wiley & Sons (2018) Viewed as “gardeners,” great leaders nourish extraordinary “growth” in others. However different great leaders throughout history may be in most respects, all…
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The Introvert’s Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone Matthew Pollard AMACOM (2018) “Why should I care?” Years ago during dinner with a very prominent venture capitalist in San Francisco, I asked him how he and his colleagues…
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Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History’s Great Wits and Wordsmiths Mardy Grothe Collins/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2005) Viva Grothe! Those who have already read Grothe’s Oxymoronica will thoroughly enjoy this volume in which he shifts…
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Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People to Love What They Do Daniel Cable Harvard Business Review Press (March 2018) “I wonder what my soul does all day when I’m at work.” — Graffiti in London Recent research…
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Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit & Wisdom From History’s Greatest Wordsmiths Mardy Grothe Collins/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2004) The Wit and Wisdom of Incongruity One of my best friends had an aunt — her name was Ginny — who, like Yogi…
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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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