Book Reviews
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing Jamie Holmes Crown Publishers (October 2015) “In an increasingly complex, unpredictable world…what matters most is how we deal with what we don’t know.” I selected the comment by Jamie Holmes to serve as the…
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Amber Guild, president of Collins,…
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[amazon_link asins=’1682302113′ template=’Lead-ProductAd-image’ store=’bobmorris1-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’92aa8c30-8f47-11e7-9f85-63d394223e2a’] Zone to Win: Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption Geoffrey A. Moore Diversion Books (2015) How to thrive amidst perils and pitfalls in the global marketplace that are only visible through the…
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Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster Ken Blanchard, Jane Ripley, and Eunice Parisi-Carew Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2015) “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo the Possum In Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground,…
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Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth Michael J. Silverstein, Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, and Rohan Sajdeh McGraw-Hill (October 2015) Here are 16 mini-case studies that demonstrate the physics of accelerated commercial growth I think this book’s subtitle is a…
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Inflection Point: How the Convergence of Cloud, Mobility, Apps, and Data Will Shape the Future of Business Scott Stawski Pearson (2015) Strategic inflection point: “When a company’s fundamentals are about to change significantly, for better or worse.” Andy Grove It…
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Pope Francis Among the Wolves: The Inside Story of a Revolution Marco Politi with William McCuaig (Translator) Columbia University Press (September 2015) A brilliant examination of Pope Francis’ efforts to cleanse the Church of Rome despite subtle but substantial opposition…
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Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your Workplace Robert M.Galford, Bob Frisch, and Cary Greene HarperOne/An Imprint of HarperCollins How and why some of the most destructive sabotage within an organization…
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Here is an excerpt from Edward Kosner‘s review in The Wall Street Journal of James Kaplan’s recently published Sinatra: The Chairman, a biography of a “mother-ridden boyhood in Jersey, bobby-sox mania, career eclipse, Ava Gardner, super-stardom, Rat Pack shenanigans, the…
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One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness Rasmus Hougaard with Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts Palgrave Macmillan (2015) How and why being constantly mindful can help accelerate personal growth and professional development With Jacqueline Carter and Gillian…
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