Book Reviews
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups Daniel Coyle Bantam Books/An imprint of Random House (January 2018) How and why “small efforts are powerful because they transmit, amplify, and celebrate the purpose of the whole group” In a…
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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World Melissa A. Schilling PublicAffairs (2/13/18) “What makes some people spectacularly innovative?” Melissa Schilling poses that question and then focuses on eight serial breakthrough…
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Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit John Wiley & Sons (February 13, 2018) What really matters — and what does not — for exceptional performance…
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Iconic Advantage: Don’t Chase the New, Innovate the Old Soon Yu with Dave Birss A Savio Republic Book (February 2018) How to enhance the Noticing Power and bolster the Staying Power of what you offer The offering could be a…
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The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future Skip Prichard Center Street Press/Hachette Book Group (February 6, 2018) “In order to fulfill your dreams, it is imperative to become an asker, a seeker, and a knocker.” I…
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Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector William F. Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker Stanford University Press (2018) Here’s a “common language, a new way of thinking, and a clear approach” for non-profit leadership Over…
Read MoreThe Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Get Done Stephen Denning AMACOM (February 2018) How and why “organizations are connecting everyone and everything, everywhere, all the time” and what that means I cannot recall a…
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Bigger Than This: How to turn any venture into an admired brand Fabian Geyrhalter Brandtro Publishing (January 2018) “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you…
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Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More Morten Hansen Simon & Schuster (January 2018) How and why “seven practices upend conventional thinking about how you should work” Note: Every so often, I recycle a…
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Herding Tigers: Be the Leader That Creative People Need (1/16/18) Todd Henry Portfolio/Penguin (January 2018) How to become a leader who “makes echoes” As I began to read this thoughtful and thought-provoking book, I was again reminded of several of…
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