Book Reviews
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time Jeffrey Pfeffer HarperBusiness Jeffrey Pfeffer is fed up. In his decades studying businesses as a Stanford professor he has seen “too many leadership failures, too many career derailments, and too many…
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Lead Right for Your Company’s Type: How to Connect Your Culture with Your Customer Promise William E. Schneider AMACOM (2017) A science-based system that can help eliminate the people problems an organization has now and prevent others from occurring Before…
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Why Should Anyone Work Here? What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones Harvard Business Review Press In their previous book, Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?, Goffee (a London Business School professor) and Jones (a…
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Pursuit of Genius: Flexner, Einstein, and the Early Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study Steve Batterson A K Peters/CRC Press (2006) The birth and early years of a truly unique intellectual community I recently re-read and now review a…
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My Adventures in Marketing: The Autobiography of Philip Kotler Idea Bite Press (May 2017) To life! If the essential function of marketing is to create or increase demand, then the essential function of demarketing is to reduce or redirect (if…
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Your Exit Map: Navigating the Boomer Bust John Dini Gardendale Press (May 2017) More than a map, actually; also a compass, travel guide, manual, medical kit, and GPS Over the years, I have worked closely with the owner/CEOs of hundreds…
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The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every Day Kristi Hedges AMACOM (June 2017) Great leaders help others to become the best they can become so they can then help still others In a previously published book, The…
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Let the Story Do the Work: The Art of Storytelling for Business Success Esther K. Choy AMACOM (July 2017) How and why “Once upon a time” has almost unlimited applications and can have compelling impact As Esther K. Choy realizes…
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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography Mary V. Dearborn A Borzoi Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf (May 2017) A brilliant, probably definitive examination of “what formed this remarkably complex and brilliant writer” I have read several dozen previously published books about…
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Business Models for Teams: See How Your Organization Really Works and How Each Person Fits In Tim Clark and Bruce Hazen Portfolio/PenguinRandom House (June 2017) Working together, we can usually do more — and do it better was well as…
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