Book Reviews
The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Amy Wilkinson Simon & Schuster (2015) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford The term “gazelle” refers to the classic entrepreneur of myth…
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Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval Crown Business (2015) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey Angela Lee Duckworth is among the sources that Linda…
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The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, Pat Spenner, and Nick Toman Portfolio/Penguin Random House (September 2015) How re-writing the rules enables “the best companies to connect with current customers,…
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Decoding the Workplace: 50 Keys to Understanding People in Organizations John Ballard Praeger/An Imprint of ABC-CLO A brilliant explanation of why not all messages sent are received and not all messages received are understood Perhaps the single greatest challenge that…
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RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards, Radio Frequency Identification and Near-Field Communication Klaus Finkenzeller John Wiley & Sons (2010) The fundamentals of a retrieval system that can provide data whenever and wherever needed I am deeply grateful…
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom Oxford University Press (2015) How to approach what could be “quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced” John H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term…
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Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion- Dollar Businesses E. Freya Williams AMA COM (2015) How and why purpose and profitability are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they tend to be interdependent. To what does the title of…
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High-Impact Human Capital Strategy: Addressing the 12 Major Challenges Today’s Organizations Face Jack J. Phillips and Patricia Pulliam Phillips AMACOM (2015) “It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not…
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Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter Alex Pentland Penguin Books (2014) How to increase our understanding of “the dynamics of human society, and hence our ability to plan for the future” Alex (“Sandy”) Pentland is among the…
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HBR Guide to Leading Teams Mary Shapiro Harvard Business Review Press (2015) “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams Most of the volumes in the…
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