Book Reviews
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…
Read MoreStrength-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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld The Penguin Press (2014) Three motivations that can help make the American Dream a reality in one’s personal…
Read MoreThe Truth About Trust: How It Determines Success in Life, Love, Learning, and More David DeSteno Hudson Street Press/The Penguin Group (2014) A rigorous and extensive exploration of what we do and don’t know about the role of trust in…
Read MoreThe Case of the Missing Cutlery: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star Kevin Allen Bibliomotion (2014) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey As I began to read Kevin Allen’s latest book, I was reminded of the admonition,…
Read MoreThe Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently Sunni Brown Portfolio/Penguin Group (2014) How to make spontaneous marks (with your mind and body) to help yourself think with greater precision and clarity In this entertaining as well as informative…
Read More!nnovation: How Innovators Think, Act and Change Our World Kim Chandler McDonald KoganPage (2013) Valuable perspectives on and from within the emerging and evolving Global Digital Economy (GDE) This is the latest of several dozen books on innovation that I…
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