Book Reviews
Enabling Collaboration: Achieving Success Through Strategic Alliances and Partnerships Martin Echavarria LID Publishing (2015) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb I agree with Martin Echavarria: “Clearly the age…
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HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case Raymond Sheen with Amy Gallo Harvard Business Review Press (2015) Here is a five-step process to prepare and then deliver a “killer” presentation Most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide to” series…
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Good for the Money Robert Benmosche St. Martin’s Press (April 2016) An embattled CEO’s perspectives on what a leader should do – and not do – during times of severe economic panic I knew nothing about Bob Benmosche and little…
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The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation Vijay Govindarajan Harvard Business Review Press (April 2016) How almost any organization can preserve its roots, break the chains of the status quo, and build a sustainable future Over the years, I…
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Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World’s Greatest Investor Jeremy C. Miller HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (April 2016) “Here’s how to invest, here’s how I did it; this is the road I took.…
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Selling Vision: The X-XY-Y Formula for Driving Results by Selling Change Lou Schachter and Rick Cheatham McGraw-Hill Publishers (April, 2016) If business leaders do not complete this transformation, their organization will probably not be around when the next one occurs.…
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Mastering the New Media Landscape: Embrace the Micromedia Mindset Barbara Cave Henricks and Rusty Shelton Barrett Publishers (April 2016) Here’s the mindset that will help create or increase demand for whatever you are marketing…including you Years ago, Alvin Toffler observed,…
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool An Eamon Dolan Book/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 12016) Why some people are amazingly good at what they do…and why so many others aren’t In “The Making…
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Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business Charles Duhigg Random House (2016) Mastering what separates “the merely busy from the genuinely productive” Duhigg sets the table: Various advances in communications and technology are supposed to…
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The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company (Third Edition) Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson McGraw-Hill (April 2016) The “magic” of values-driven, customer-centric, high-impact management This is the updated and expanded Third Edition of a book…
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