Book Reviews
Thinkers 50 Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking to Take Your Business to the Next Level Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) How does an organization establish and/or strengthen a capability for discontinuous innovation? This is one of the volumes in…
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Light a Fire under Your Business: How to Build a Class 1 Corporate Culture through Inspirational Leadership Tom Pandola and James W. Bird Praeger™/An Imprint of ABC-CLO (2015) “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Benjamin Franklin…
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The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 Joseph J. Ellis Knopf (2015) A brilliant analysis of “arguably the most creative and consequential act of political leadership in American history” Many people still do not as yet know that that…
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The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance Jim Whitehurst Harvard Business Review Press (2015) How and why to focus everyone’s attention on what is most important, doing so with passion to achieve breakthrough results Almost everything I know about the…
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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America’s Liberties Carol Serkin Simon & Schuster (2015) How and why the Bill of Rights “is the most important element in the Constitution” Once the war for independence from Britain had been…
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HBR Guide to Office Politics Karen Dillon Harvard Business Review Press (2015) Rise above rivalry, avoid power games, and build better relationships to accelerate personal growth and professional development In HBR Guide to Office Politics, published by Harvard Business Review…
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea Ralph Young New York University Press (2015) “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Edmund Burke On occasion, I read two or more books…
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art Sue Roe Penguin Press (2-15) A lively story of unknown artists with “closely overlapping lives” who have since become household names Many years ago, there was a CBS Radio series…
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Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact Annette Simmons AMACOM (May 2015) How to “lay the groundwork for using stories as credible tools” to “adjust the perceptions your stories…
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Are You Fully Charged? The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life Tom Rath Silicon Guild/An imprint of Missionday (2015) How and why being “fully charged” can help to eliminate all limits that are self-imposed Humans need to be…
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