Book Reviews
Navigating an Organizational Crisis: When Leadership Matters Most Henry Hutson and Martha Johnson Praeger/An Imprint of ABC-CLIO (2016) “Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses…
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Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945 Jason Stahl University of North Carolina Press (2016) A brilliant analysis of the impact of the current “marketplace of policy values and ideas,” for better or worse I…
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Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper Through Entrepreneurial Thinking Jim Dewald University of Toronto Press (June 2016) Improvement that is not continuous is merely a gesture of no enduring value Years ago at a GE annual meeting, its then chairman…
Read MoreWhen the Pressure’s On: The Secret to Winning When You Can’t Afford to Lose Louis S. Csoka AMACOM (June 2016) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey, June 22, 2016 All of us can identify with a situation when…
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The Power of Peers: How the Company You Keep Drives Leadership, Growth, and Success Leon Shapiro and Leo Bottary Bibliomotion (2016) “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 (Act III, Scene 1) Results of…
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The Innovation Formula: The 14 Science-Based Keys for Creating a Culture Where Innovation Thrives Amantha Imber John Wiley & Sons (2016) To paraphrase Henry Ford, “If you think you can or think you can’t create a culture where innovation thrives,…
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When the Pressure’s On: The Secret to Winning When You Can’t Afford to Lose Louis S. Csoka AMACOM (June 2016) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey All of us can identify with a situation when someone has been…
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Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (June 2016) How to achieve and then sustain a competitive advantage in almost any marketplace In…
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Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee Harvard Business Review Press (June 2016) How to help those with a need for a product or service to connect with those who can provide it, The…
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior Jonah Berger Simon & Schuster (June 2015) Here are the “simple, subtle, and other surprising ways that others affect our behavior” Actually, the invisibility to which the book’s title refers is —…
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