Book Reviews
Discover Your True North (Expanded and Updated Edition) Bill George John Wiley & Sons (2015) “You are the author of your life”…for better or worse. This is an expanded and updated edition of many of the insights and counsel first…
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New Brand Leadership: Managing at the Intersection of Globalization, Localization and Personalization Larry Light and Joan Kiddon Pearson FT Press (2015) If someone asks you if your brand’s significance is global, local, or personal and your answer is “yes,” this…
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Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art Nico Israel Columbia University Press (2015) How and why the spiral may well be the defining image, symbol, and metaphor for the early-21st century What’s with spirals? According to Nico Israel,…
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We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business Daniel Korshun and Grant Welker AMACOM (2015) The Market Basket story “forces us to rethink who really owns a company and who gets to…
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Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking Paul Butler, John Manfredi, and Peter Klein McGraw-Hill (2015) The power of a new approach to results-driven, high-impact strategic thinking Paul Butler, John Manfredi, and Peter Klein introduce and thoroughly explain…
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Lead the Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment John Boudreau, Ravin Jesuthasan, and David Creelman Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2015) “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” Peter Drucker…
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Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno: What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System Takehico Harada McGraw-Hill (2015) “It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to…
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Beyond Engagement: A Brain-Based Approach That Blends the Engagement Managers Want with the Energy Employees Need Brady G. Wilson BPS Books (2015) How and why executives should manage workforce energy rather than workforce engagement Obviously Brady Wilson agrees with these…
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Making Human Capital Analytics Work: Measuring the ROI of Human Capital Processes and Outcomes Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J. Phillips McGraw-Hill (2015) How to connect HR to business, predict the value of HR initiatives, and optimize the value of…
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HBR 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2015) How and why the most effective leaders “have a high degree of what has come to be known as emotional intelligence” This is one in a…
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