Book Reviews
Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World Al Pittampalli HarperBusiness/Imprint of Haroer Collins (January 2016) Why leaders should demand to know whatever they need to know, especially if it is not what they think Those who…
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Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World Al Pittampalli HarperBusiness/Imprint of Harper Collins (January 2016) Why leaders should demand to know whatever they need to know, especially if it is not what they think they know…but…
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The Power of Fifty Bits: The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results Bob Nease HarperBusiness (January 2016) What the “intent/behavior gap” is and how to minimize it, if not eliminate it Bob Nease is on to something.…
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Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes—But Some Do Matthew Syed Portfolio/Penguin Random House (2015) A rigorous examination of “the underlying processes through which humans learn, innovate, and become more creative” According to Matthew Syed, there…
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It…Every Time Maria Konnikova VIKING/An Imprint of Random House (2016) A brilliant analysis of “the aristocrats of crime” and how they manipulate their gullible victims Long before we are adults and others have…
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Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way Joseph A. Michelli McGraw-Hill (2016) “The Best or Nothing”: The Mercedes-Benz Way As those who have read one or more of his previously published books already know, Joseph Michelli possesses…
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Cal Newport Grand Central Publishing (2016) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle Those who aspire to “connect sacredness inherent in…
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Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2015) How to make every single person in your organization solve problems 10% better, 10%…
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The Granularity of Growth: How to Identify the Sources of Growth and Drive Enduring Company Performance Patrick Viguerie, Sven Smit, and Mehrdad Baghai John Wiley & Sons (2008) Here is a rigorous analytical foundation for understanding growth and the architecture…
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Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows John Lahr W.W., Norton & Company (2015) For those who love the theater, here is a magic carpet on which to take a joy ride of their own. I have previously read all…
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