Book Reviews
The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life Bernard Roth HarperBusiness/An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers (July 2015) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle, July…
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Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom: 10 Imperatives to Drive High Performing Companies Nancy Falls Greenleaf Book Group Press (2015) The power of creative convergence and cohesion In First Corinthians, Saint Paul has much of value to say about the concept…
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect Matthew D. Lieberman B/D/W/Y Books (2013) A brilliant examination of the principles of the social brain (in layman’s terms) The best works of non-fiction tend to be research-driven and that is certainly…
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Transformative HR: How Great Companies Use Evidence-Based Change for Sustainable Advantage John W. Boudreau and Ravin Jesuthasan Joszsey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) How and why the principles underlying evidence-based change bring clarity and validity to decisions about human capital In my…
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Brian Tracy on Sales Management Brian Tracy AMACOM (2015) The essentials of how to recruit, manage, and motivate a team of high-performing sales professionals This is one of the volumes in the The Brian Tracy Success Library, all published by…
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Above: A collapsed bridge in Washington State, 2013. Credit: Dean Rutz/The Seattle Times, via Associated Press Here is a brief excerpt from John Schwartz’s insightful review in The New York Times of Rosabeth Moss Kanter‘s latest book, Move: Putting America’s…
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Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine Jeanne Bliss John Wiley & Sons (2015) How to lead a customer-driven business transformation by establishing value for the role of the chief customer officer This is a sequel…
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The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative Thinking Rowan Gibson John Wiley & Sons (2o15) How to establish a culture within which everyone’s abilities are free to enrich high-impact innovation throughout the enterprise First of all, I…
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The 7th Sense: How Flashes of Insight Change Your Life William Duggan Columbia University Press (2015) How and why “your first six senses tell us who you are. Your seventh sense tells who you can be.” Opinions are divided with…
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All Hands On Deck: Navigating Your Team Through Crises, Getting Your Organization Unstuck, and Emerging Victorious Peter J. Boni Career Press (2w015() How and why disruption can create ten times (10X) the nature and extent of opportunity to advance and…
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