Book Reviews
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Peter F. Drucker HarperBusiness (January 2017) How and why, “like every other discipline, effectiveness can be learned and must be earned” This is the 50th anniversary edition of…
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The Power of Positive Destruction: How to Turn a Business Idea Into a Revolution Seth Merrin John Wiley & Sons (2016) How to break things down to make them better and “improve the lives of all who benefit from those…
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Accelerating Performance: How Organizations Can Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with Agility Colin Price and Sharon Toye John Wiley & Sons (January 2017) How and why individuals as well as organizations make progress happen, despite their many flaws Much has been…
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Mission Control: How Nonprofits and Governments Can Focus, Achieve More, and Change the World Liana Downey Bibliomotion Media (2016) How to develop a powerful strategy that sharpens organizational focus on achieving more to change the world According to Liana Downey,…
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The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking Harvard Business Review Editors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2017) Here’s the most important question that every executive must ask: “What must be done?” In my…
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Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (January 2017) Without ignition, nothing happens and nothing gets done To what does the title of this book refer? Its…
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The New York Times Book of Science: More than 150 Years of Groundbreaking Scientific Coverage David Corcoran, Editor Sterling Publishing Group (2015) How “progress in science extends the reach of certainty into precisely articulated realms of uncertainty” In the Foreword,…
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Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos Heidi K. Gardner Harvard Business Review Press (January 2017) How to establish or strengthen a workplace culture within which smart collaboration is most likely to thrive As I…
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The 50s: The Story of a Decade Henry Finder, Editor Random House (2015) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens For more than 90 years, The New Yorker has earned and deserves its…
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The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory Susan Wise Bauer W.W. Norton & Company (2015) “Life is short, and Art long, the crisis fleeting; experience is perilous, and decisions difficult.” Hippocrates There…
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