Book Reviews
63 Innovation Nuggets for aspiring innovators George E.L. Barbee Innovation Etc. Publishing Company (October 2015) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford Actually, there are many more than 63 “innovation nuggets” and they…
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Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success Stephen R. Covey Simon & Schuster (November 2015) Here are decades of experience-driven wisdom from Stephen Covey’s mostly unpublished reflections Stephen Covey is without doubt one of the most prolific business thinkers and…
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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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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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