Book Reviews
Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World Brian Robertson Henry Holt & Company (2015) How and why, “one way or another, evolution will have its way with us” and our organizations in a rapidly changing world To…
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The Aspirational Investor: Taming the Markets to Achieve Your Life’s Goals Ashvin B. Chhabra HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (2015) The power and prudence of an objective approach to personal goals-driven investment To what does the title of this book refer?…
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HBR Guide to Coaching Employees Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2014) “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams This is one of the volumes…
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The Wright Brothers David McCullough Simon & Schuster (2015) “Now they had only to build a motor.” David McCullough’s research and writing skills (especially storytelling) are again obvious in this, his tenth and latest book. In my opinion, what differentiate…
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Learning to Succeed: Rethinking Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change Jason Wingard AMACOM (2015) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer) According to Jason Wingard, his purpose in this book is to help…
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Thinkers 50 Strategy: The Art and Science of Strategy Creation and Execution Stuant Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education What are the most valuable insights with regard to the art and science of strategy formulation and execution? This is one…
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Thinkers50 Management: Cutting-Edge Thinking to Engage and Motivate Your Employees for Success Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) Which concepts are the central focus of today’s cutting age thinking about management? This is one of the volumes in…
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Thinkers50 Future Thinkers: New Thinking on Leadership, Strategy and Innovation for the 21st Century Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) What will probably be the greatest challenges for business leaders in years to come? This is one of…
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Thinkers 50 Leadership: Organizational Success through Leadership Stuant Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education What is the cutting-edge thinking about how leadership can achieve and then sustain organizational success? This is one of the volumes in a series published by…
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50 Politics Classics: Freedom Equality Power: Mind-Changing, World-Changing Ideas from Fifty Landmark Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2015) “The world is a dangerous place to live…because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein Actually, the…
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