Book Reviews
Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers Niraj Dawar Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why downstream, customer-led activities and preferences will dominate the competitive landscape in the future Niraj Dawar offers an exceptionally thoughtful and thought-provoking examination…
Read MoreAs I worked my way through Burkus’ lively and eloquent narrative, I was also keenly interested in his discussion Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s insights relevant to incubation in Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1997): “Once the incubation stage…
Read MoreJohnny Carson Henry Bushkin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013) “Here’s Johnny!” or at least what he was willing to seem Let’s start with a multiple-choice question. According to Henry Bushkin, Johnny Carson (1925-2005) could be (a) Irresistibly charming (b) Distant and…
Read MoreGrounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted in an Uncertain World Bob Rosen Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2014) The leadership skills needed to cope with speed, impermanence, complexity, transparency, competition, and globalization Over the years, I have interviewed hundreds of thought leaders (many…
Read MoreMaximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career Jocelyn Glei, Editor Amazon Publishing (2013) Are you a prospective Free Radical? “Potential” means “you ain’t done it yet.” Darrell Royal Jocelyn Glei edited this volume…
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