Book Reviews
What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton The Culture Works; HAR/PSC edition (September 2014) How to get your passions in proper alignment with how you want to live and what you want to do…
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Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate Michael Schrage Harvard Business Review Press (1999) Note: I read and reviewed this book when it was first published (1999) and recently re-read it before reading Michael Schrage’s latest, The…
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Managing Organizational Change: A Practical Toolkit for Leaders Helen Campbell Kogan-Page (2014) How to lead effective organizational change: Concise, substantial, practical, and do-able discussions and recommendations Most organizational change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original expectations and…
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Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee Harvard Business Review Press (2014) Invaluable lessons to be learned from Digital Masters about how to use technology to achieve business transformation Why did George Westerman,…
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy Eric Metaxas Thomas Nelson (2014) “Whoever I am, thou knowest, O God, I am thine.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer What more remains to be said about Dietrich Bonhoeffer? More to the point, what can I contribute to…
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Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett O’Reilly Media, Inc. (2013) “Torture the data enough and it will confess to anything.” Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize Laureate in…
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Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation Nicholas LaRusso, Barbara Spurrier, and Gianrico Farrugia McGraw-Hill (2014) How almost any organization can transform itself with high-impact innovation The success or failure…
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Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) Christian Rudder Crown (2014) Noah had his flood and it ended. Now we have ours and it will never end. To what does the title of this book refer? According…
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where and Why it Happens Benedict Carey Random House (2014) How to take full advantage of a host of techniques that deepen learning that remain largely unknown outside scientific circles As Benedict…
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload Daniel J. Levitin Dutton/The Penguin Group (2014) How to “recapture a sense of order and thereby regain the hours of time wasted by a disorganized mind” Clutter can full…
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