Book Reviews
Rob Nissen [email protected] Predictable Profits: Transform Your Business from One-Off Sales to Recurring Revenue with Memberships and Subscriptions Stu McLaren Hay House (February 2025) A secret sauce for “wildly successful” businesses When I was in high school, I participated in…
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How to Get Along with Anyone: The Playbook for Predicting and Preventing Conflict at Work and Home John Eliot and Jim Guinn Simon & Schuster (February 2025) Here are “the ingredients for immunity to conflict kryptonite” …
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The ROI of Thought Leadership: Calculating the Value That Sets Organizations Apart Cindy Anderson and Anthony Marshall Wiley (February 2025) How and why — on average — data-informed ROI for thought leadership is 156% Cindy Anderson and Anthony Marshall define…
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The Insider’s Guide to Innovation at Microsoft Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin Wiley (February 2025) Two Microsoft Insiders Explain Innovation in Highly Innovative Ways Years ago during my interview of him, John Kotter suggested that the greatest challenge to change…
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HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers Elisa Farri and Gabriele Rosani Harvard Business Review Press (February 2025) How to leverage gen AI in order to save time, innovate faster, and lead more effectively According to Harvard Information Technology, “Generative…
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Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, and Rodney Zemmel Wiley (June 2023) Here’s a detailed perspective on how to build enterprise capabilities to scale What do Eric Lamarre,…
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The Courage Gap: 5 Steps to Braver Action Margie Warrell Berrett-Koehler Publishers (January 2024) Here is a lifeline to personal growth and professional development Long ago in Future Shock (1970), Alvin Toffler made this prediction: “The illiterate of the 21st…
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The New Rules of Influence: How to Authentically Build Trust, Drive Change, and Make an Impact Lida Citroën Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2024) How to become a success in the VUCA world? Maximize your positive infuence. Because you are reading this review,…
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis W.W. Norton & Company (2016) A brilliant analysis of how two world-famous psychologists could – and did — “undo” so many misconceptions about human error I have read and…
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HBR Guide for Women at Work HBR Editors with Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2018) How to overcome unconscious biases that oppose women’s personal growth and professional development This is one of the volumes in a series of…
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