Book Reviews
The Power of Thanks: How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to Work Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine McGraw-Hill Education (2015) How and why effective social recognition will help to accelerate personal growth and professional development Major…
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Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It Dorie Clark Portfolio/The Penguin Group Here’s a practical game plan for breakthrough personal growth and professional development Frankly, Stand Out will probably be of little (if…
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Washington’s Circle: The Creation of the President David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler Random House (March 2015) How and why the creation of a new nation and of the leader it would need were not only related but interdependent.…
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The Four Intelligences of the Business Mind: How to Rewire Your Brain and Your Business for Success Valeh Nazemoff with Erik Hille CA Press (23014) Four areas in which business leaders need to declutter, simplify, collaborate, communicate, and strategize better…
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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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