Book Reviews
Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2014) Invaluable information, insights, and counsel with regard to how to become and help others to become a “fluent leader” According…
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Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change Chris Ertel and Lisa Kay Solomon Simon & Schuster (2014) How to replace “time-sucking, energy-depleting meetings and workshops with high engagement strategic conversations” There are times when all of…
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BRIEF: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less Joseph McCormack Wiley (2014) How to unleash the power of brevity so that what you say and what you do have much greater impact I am among the staunch advocates of the…
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The Innovator’s Field Guide: Market Tested Methods and Frameworks to Help You Meet Your Innovation Challenges Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswaite Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) Here’s a “comprehensive, practical how-to guide to address the most pressing innovation challenges in your…
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Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits Jeremy Eden and Terri Long Wiley (2014) How to “get a good cash crop yield from business innovation” Years ago, I helped a Fortune 50 company establish an electronic suggestion…
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Ben Horowitz HarperBusiness (2014) One man’s thoughts and feelings about making especially difficult decisions and resolving especially difficult situations Up front: I think the word…
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Candor: How to have courageous coaching conversations when it really matters Steven Stowell and Tony I. Herrara CMOE Press (2013) How to identify and correct ineffective patterns of communication when guiding, coaching, and giving feedback to others In a previous…
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Strategy is Everyone’s Job Steven J. Stowell and Stephanie S, Mead CMOE Press (2013) How and why even a slight competitive advantage can be decisive for an organization…and a career This is my favorite passage in Lao-Tzu’s Tao Te Ching…
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Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered Austin Kleon Workman Publishing Company (2014) “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works….” Matthew 5:16 As Austin Kleon explains, his previous…
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The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids Quanyu Huang Prometheus Books (2014) Why what a country can achieve depends almost entirely on the education and cultivation of its children As I began to read this book,…
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