Book Reviews
Getting There: A Book of Mentors Gillian Zoe Segal Abrams Books (April 2015) “When you remember what you love, you will remember who you are [and then] you can do anything.” Cathy Guisewite I checked the etymology of the word…
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Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees As If They’re Real People Rodd Wagner Mc Graw-Hill (April 2015) How to create “the ultimate employee experience” It is no coincidence that most of the companies annual ranked among those…
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Return on Character: The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win Fred Kiel Harvard Business Review Press (2015) “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” Albert Einstein As I began to read…
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Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas Jeremy Gutsche Crown Business (2015) How to convert almost any workplace into a “hunting ground” for breakthrough ideas In his latest book, Hunting in a Farmer’s World: Celebrating the Mind of…
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Disrupting Digital Business: Create an Authentic Experience in the Peer-to-Peer Economy R “Ray” Wang Harvard Business Review Press (2015) How to establish and then sustain a decisive advantage over competitors with a disruptive business model By way of background, “disruptive…
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Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others Cheryl Bachelder Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2015) “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller In Jason Jennings’ latest book, The High-Speed Company, he draws upon 11,000 interviews of…
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Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us Kabir Sehgal Grand Central Publishing/Hatchette Book Group (2015) A brilliant survey of the neuroscience of financial transactions throughout history Kabir Sehgal is not a neuroscientist nor am…
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli Crown Business (2015) The Steve Jobs most people did not know…until now In Becoming Steve Jobs, Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli attempt…
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Leading with GRIT: Inspiring Action and Accountability with Generosity, Respect, Integrity, and Truth Laurie Sudbrink John Wiley & Sons (2015) “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s really quite simple. Double your rate of failure.”…
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Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead Laszlo Bock Twelve/Hatchette Book Group (2015) How to build a workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive I agree…
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