Book Reviews
Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success Stan Beecham McGraw-Hill (September 2016) If the mind is what the brain does, this is how and why it controls the body In the title of…
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Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang The MIT Press (August 2016) An insightful discussion of the evolving nature and probable impact of Big Data Decisions that concern Big Data do…
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Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind Dan Roam Portfolio/Penguin (September 2016) “Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he…
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The Etiquette Edge: Modern Manners for Business Success Beverly Langford AMACOM (August 2016) Why we must “treat everyone in a manner that values everyone and denigrates no one” Incivility in the workplace and elsewhere in our society (notably in schools)…
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7 Secrets of Persuasion: Leading-Edge Neuromarketing Techniques to Influence Anyone James C. Crimmins Career Press (September 2016) “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, and they will forget what you do, but they will never forget how you…
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Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life Susan David Avery Publishing (September 2016) How to loosen up, calm, down and live with more intention amidst all the distractions Long ago I realized that I could…
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Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business School Press (September 2016) Here’s what you need when making the most difficult decisions Friedrich Hegel once suggested that many of…
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade Robert Cialdini Simon & Schuster (September 2016) “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln I am among those…
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The Leader’s Guide to Negotiation: How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results Simon Horton FT Financial Times Publishing/Pearson (July 2016) “Letting the other chap have it your way” The last time I checked, Amazon US offers 30,855 books…
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The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street: 11 Key Principles from Battlefield to Boardroom Ken Marlin St. Martin’s Press (August 2016) How and why the “Marine Corps Way” can help accelerate personal growth and professional development Peter Drucker…
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