Book Reviews
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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Innovation Thinking Methods for the Modern Entrepreneur: Disciplines of Thought That Can Help You Rethink Industries and Unlock 10x Better Solutions Osama A. Hashmi Next Thirty Press (March 2016) Proven methods for thinking innovatively about innovation The last time I…
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Annals of Gullibility: Why We Get Duped and How to Avoid It Stephen Greenspan PRAEGER (December 2008) How almost anyone can establish and then sustain “a healthy balance of trust and skepticism As Donald Connery points out in his excellent…
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The Art of Authenticity: Tools to Become an Authentic Leader and Your Best Self Karissa Thacker John Wiley & Sons (March 2016) “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is more Youer…
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The Mentor Myth: How to Take Control of Your Own Success Debby Carreau Bibliomotion Media (April 2016) Who’s your best mentor? That would be you IF you are determined to become the best you that you can be Oscar Wilde…
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The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future Steve Case Simon & Schuster (April 2016) A compelling personal account of an inclusive and explosive digital revolution from one of those who launched it It was Alvin Toffler who introduced…
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Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy Stephen Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong Harvard Business Review Press (March 2016) How and why getting economic policy right “is and has been of overwhelming importance in generating prosperity” Opinions…
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Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational Effectiveness Alec Levenson Berrett-Koehler Publishers (November 2015) Here is “a comprehensive road map for starting and completing a cultural transformation.” C-level executives face a number of challenges and one of the most important…
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The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fourth Edition Warren Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham (Editor) Carolina Academic Press (2015) The best of four anthologies of wit and wisdom from “the world’s greatest investor” There are several people…
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Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends Martin Lindstrom St. Martin’s Press (February 2016) How to mine for and then integrate Small Data with Big Data to create Rich Data Frankly, I am dismayed by the widespread and…
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