Book Reviews
HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (February 2017) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker This is the latest…
Read MoreSteven Spielberg: A Life in Films Molly Haskell Yale University Press (January 2017) “Everything about me is in my films.” Steven Spielberg There is substantial truth in Steven Spielberg’s observation, as Molly Haskell indicates in this brief but remarkably comprehensive…
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Authentic Negotiating: The Three Keys To True Negotiating Success & How To Achieve Them Corey Kupfer Advantage Media Group (January 2017) How to prepare for collaboration on reaching “fair and lasting” agreements…or walking away from those that won’t be The…
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The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation Frans Johansson Harvard Business Review Press (March 2017) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb This is…
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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (2016) How and why the mind-set of those best-informed in the seventeenth century transitioned so quickly from medieval to…
Read MoreExtreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail Robert Bruce Shaw AMACOM (January 2017) “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that…
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Winners: And How They Succeed Alastair Campbell Pegasus Books Ltd (2015) What we can learn from winners’ mindsets as well as from their modus operandi Alistair Campbell carefully organized and then presents his material within four Parts. To his substantial…
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Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO Nathaniel Bennett and Stephen Miles Stanford University Press (January 2017) Why the COO is probably “the toughest job in a company” The is the updated edition of a book first published a decade…
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HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff Harvard Business Review Press (2017) “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” Steve Jobs Most of…
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Sense & Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously Jeff Gothelp and Josh Seiden Harvard Business Review Press (February 2017) Engage an organization in a two-way conversation with its market(s) and customers, integrated at all…
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