Book Reviews
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Edwin E. Catmull with Amy Wallace Random House (2014) How individuals as well as organizations can avoid or overcome blocks to creativity by managing the symbiotic…
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Smart Machines: IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm Columbia Business School Publishing (2013) How and why humans and cognitive computing can — and should — collaborate on improving quality of life…
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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds Carmine Gallo St. Martin’s Press (2014) How and why a TED presentation resembles “a Cirque Du Soleil for the mind” As Carmine Gallo explains, Richard Saul Wurman created…
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Leadership Brian Tracy AMACOM (2014) Great leaders possess and personify “the ability to elicit extraordinary performance from ordinary people.” This is the latest volume added to The Brian Tracy Success Library. Thus far, the others are Motivation (Apr 16, 2013),…
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Relevance: The Power to Change Minds and Behavior and Stay Ahead of the Competition Andrea Coville with Paul B. Brown Bibliomotion (2014) How to forge a lasting bond with the people you need to influence to create and sustain a…
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Big Data @ Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities Thomas H. Davenport Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to make much better decisions about and then with big data systems and capabilities Over the years, I have read and…
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Leadership 2030: The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the Future Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell AMACOM (2014) Valuable lessons to be learned from six megatrends and their possible/probable implications I am in substantial debt…
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Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement David Shaked KoganPage (2014) How and why one approach to Lean Six Sigma “is more natural to work with and more sustainable in the long run” Where to begin? David…
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee W.W. Norton & Company (2014) “Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.” Opinions vary as to the timeframe of the…
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Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers Geoffrey A. Moore HarperBusiness/HarperCollins Imprint (2014) How and why each stakeholder in the given enterprise “must come to a common accord if the chasm can be safely…
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