Book Reviews
Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business James Kaplan, Tucker Bailey, Derek O’Halloran, Alan Marcus, and Chris Rezek John Wiley & Sons (2015) How and why all organizations must develop digital resilience to establish and then sustain cybersecurity First of all,…
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Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art Virginia Heffernan Simon & Schuster (June 2016) How and why the Internet is “the most powerful expansion and expression of the project of being human” Virginia Heffernan observes, “These are exciting times, filled…
Read MoreThis Brave New World: India, China and the United States Anja Manuel Simon & Schuster (2016) How and why the United States, China, and India – indeed must – create a positive brave new world As Anja Manuel explains, “The…
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That’s Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall–and Can Rise Again John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber Portfolio Penguin/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2016) How to create and then sustain a best-of-both-worlds…
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The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever Michael Bungay Stanier Box of Crayons Press (2016) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle Aristotle provides…
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The Power of the Other: The startling effect other people have on you, from the boardroom to the bedroom and beyond — and what to do about it Henry Cloud HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (June 2016) “Champions get up when…
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Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results – Without Losing Your Soul Karin Hurt and David Dye AMACOM (2016) How to build a workforce culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive It is…
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The Genius of Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Achieve Extraordinary Results Together Jennifer B. Kahnweiler Barrett-Koehler Publishers (2015) “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead As I began to read this book, I was…
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The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh Simon & Schuster (2016) Here are several “profoundly counterintuitive perspectives on how to become a better person and how to create a better…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Collaboration Harvard Business Review Editors and various contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Ancient African proverb This is one…
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