Book Reviews
Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company’s Deep Smarts Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap, and Gavin Barton Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to locate, obtain or develop, assimilate, manage, and leverage your organization’s “Deep Smarts” Dorothy Leonard is among…
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The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance Jim Blasingame SBN Books (2014) How and why all of a company’s initiatives must be in proper alignment to accommodate its customers’ expectations As I worked my way through…
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Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution Lisa Bodell Bibliomotion (2012) How to envision the future you want to create, make the necessary connections, and meanwhile engage in assumption reversal Obviously, it would be idiotic to…
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Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time Jeff Sutherland Crown Business (2014) Here is a “radical change from the prescriptive, top-down project methodologies of the past” To what does the title of this book refer?…
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HOW: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything (Expanded Edition) Dov Seidmnan John Wiley & Sons (2011) HOW to manage the relationship between success and significance, not only to survive but also to thrive I read this book when it…
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The Digital Economy: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence (Anniversary Edition) Don Tapscott McGraw-Hill (2014) A brilliant exploration and analysis of what has become an “age of connected intelligence” worldwide This is the 20th Anniversary Edition…
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The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve learned — and Have Still to Learn — from the Financial Crisis Martin Wolf Penguin Press (2014) How and why the financial and economic crises that hit the high-income countries after August 2007…
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Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love Jon Kolko Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to focus on people, celebrate emotional value, and drive optimism through lateral and divergent thinking I share Jon Kolko’s high regard for…
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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work Liz Wiseman Harper Business (2014) Quaerere Eruditionem: Always “Seek Learning” In her previously published books, Liz Wiseman shares her thoughts about the power of multiplication, a force that…
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Location is (Still) Everything: The Surprising Influence of the Real World on How We Search, Shop, and Sell in the Virtual One David R. Bell New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) The power and perils of becoming actively engaged with the…
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