Book Reviews
METASKILLS: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related…
Read More
Choose Resilience: Break Out of Your Comfort Zone Using the Power of Emotional Intelligence Jen Shirkani Shirkani LLC (May 2017) The MOST Model of Resilience: How to accelerate personal growth and professional development It may be a matter of semantics…
Read More
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes Pantheon/An imprint of Penguin Random House (March 2017) “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” Erasmus The observation…
Read MoreGood Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard Rumelt Crown Business (2011) How and why a good strategy “acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcome them As the title of this review correctly indicates,…
Read More
Friction: How Passion Brands Are Built in the Age of Digital Distribution Jeff Rosenblum and Jordan Berg Powerhouse Books (May 2017) Example of positive friction: You can’t sharpen a sword blade on velvet Friction can be either positive as the…
Read More
50 Economics Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishers (May 2017) An intelligent person’s guide to cutting-edge thinking about economics since 1776 As Tom Butler-Bowdon explains in…
Read MoreThinkers50 Management: Cutting-Edge Thinking to Engage and Motivate Your Employees for Success Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) Which concepts are the central focus of today’s cutting age thinking about management? This is one of the volumes in…
Read More
You’ve Got 8 Seconds: Communication Secrets for a Distracted World Paul Hellman AMACOM (March 2017) “Never, never, never give up!” Winston Churchill Churchill makes an excellent point, one that I selected to serve as title of this brief commentary. Here…
Read More
State of Readiness: Operational Excellence as Precursor to Becoming a High-Performance Organization Joseph F. Paris, Jr. Greenleaf Book Group Press (May 8, 2017) How and why a business is a single system that has multiple dimensions of effort and initiative…
Read MoreThe Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation David Robertson with Kent Lineback Harvard Business Review Press (May 2017) Do innovators have only two choices: innovate small incrementally or innovate big disruptively? “There is another option.” In…
Read More