Book Reviews
Wicked Strategies: How Companies Conquer Complexity and Confound Competitors John C. Camillus University of Toronto Press (July 2016) How to embrace change and transformation, yet maintain an enduring and proud identity To what does this book’s title refer? According to…
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Chasing Relevance: 6 Steps to Understand, Engage and Maximize Next Generation Leaders in the Workplace Dan Negroni with Jim Eber launchbox (August 2016) How to create a workplace within which “powerful, authentic, multi-generational relationships are most likely to thrive” In…
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A Climb to the Top: Communication & Leadership Tactics to Take Your Career to New Heights Chuck Garcia Advantage Media Group (2016) How and why “challenge is the core and mainspring of all human activity.” James Ramsey Ullman The single…
Read MoreMake Your Own Waves: The Surfer’s Rules for Innovators and Entrepreneurs Louis Patler AMACOM (July 2016) Here are unique insights about “a way of thinking, a way of acting, and a way of pushing the limits” Similarities, comparisons and parallels…
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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America’s Greatest Economic Challenges James M. Stone Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2016) Alas, many of those in power with the greatest need to read this book are least likely to do so. It will come…
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Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, Third Edition Aubrey C. Daniels McGraw-Hill Education (June 2016) “The best way to run an organization is also the best way to treat people.” Sherman…
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Neuroscience for Organizational Change: An Evidence-based Practical Guide to Managing Change Hilary Scarlett KoganPage (2016) How and why an understanding of neuroscience can help transform almost any organization Human beings are effective change agents if driven by an understanding of…
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Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA Michael G. Fuchs, K. Scott Swan, and Abbie Griffin, Co-Editors John Wiley & Sons (2015) “We spend a lot time designing the bridge, but not enough time thinking about the people…
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Neuroscience for Leaders: A Brain-Adaptive Leadership Approach Nikolaos Dimitriadis and Alexandros Psychogios KoganPage (2016) “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable.” Charles Darwin…
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Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently Don Yaeger W Publishing Group/An Imprint of Thomas Nelson (July 2016) “If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.” William L. McKnight (1924) However…
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