Book Reviews
Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Changes Ellen Auster and Lisa Hillenbrand University of Toronto Press (March 2016) How to thrive in a global marketplace that seems to become more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous each day Ellen Auster and Lisa Hillenbrand…
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An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization Robert Keegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey Harvard Business Review Press (March 2016) How to establish a workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive Recent research…
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OutManeuver: OutThink—Don’t OutSpend Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky Xlibris (January 2016) How leveraging maneuver strategies and tactics can establi As Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky observe, “When speed and agility are important, maneuver is far more attractive than attrition, especially…
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Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy—And How to Make Them Work for You Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary W. W. Norton & Company March 2016) How to accelerate connectivity and interaction,…
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Global Vision: How Companies Can Overcome the Pitfalls of Globalization Robert Salomon Palgrave Macmillan (2016) Here is “a lens through which to view globalization in a new and compelling way” Robert Salomon provides an abundance of valuable information, insights, and…
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Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual David Burkus Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (March 2016) “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done.” Peter Drucker When concluding…
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Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field Brian Tracy Bibliomotion (March 2016) “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where…
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The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity George Couros Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. (2015) “We don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.” Sir Kenneth…
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Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace Karie Willyerd and Barbara Mistick John Wiley & Sons (2016) “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles…
Read MoreAll the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence Suzanne Bates McGraw-Hill Education (2016) Here’s a “research-based definition of executive presence” with an explanation of how to develop it Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about…
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