Book Reviews
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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People Analytics in the Era of Big Data: Changing the Way You Attract, Acquire, Develop, and Retain Talent Jean Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott John Wiley & Sons (2016) Just about everything you need to know to attract, hire, develop,…
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Beyond Competitive Advantage: How to Solve the Puzzle of Sustaining Growth While Creating Value Todd Zenger Harvard Business Review Press (June 2016) How and why better corporate theories generate better strategies “with a higher possibility of success” Long ago, Peter…
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Players: The Story of Sports and Money, and the Visionaries Who Fought to Create a Revolution Matthew Futterman Simon & Schuster (2016) Greed corrupts…and absolute greed corrupts absolutely. Long ago, I realized that the correct answer to most questions about…
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