Book Reviews
Surrounded by Geniuses: Unlocking the Brilliance in Yourself, Your Colleagues, and Your Organization Alan S. Gregermnan Sourcebooks (2010) How and why winning in today’s competitive markets requires unlocking genius within us and in the world around us I deeply appreciated…
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What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World’s Greatest Professional Firms Charles D. Ellis John S. Wiley & Sons (2013) What sets the world’s greatest professional service firms apart from all the others Although Charles Ellis’ focus is…
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Subliminal: How the Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior Leonard Mlodinow Vintage Books/Random House (2012) How and why “the work done by the unconscious is a critical part of our evolutionary mechanism” Some of the best introductions to a work of…
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Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy Irv Rothman John S. Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why most (if not all) organizations get the results they are designed to produce, 12 Nov 2013…
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The Birkman Method: Your Personality at Work Sharon Birkman Fink and Stephanie Capparell Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How and why the more you help others to fulfill their potentialities, the more they will do to help you fulfill yours The…
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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…
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As 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…
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Johnny 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…
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When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Walter C. Swap Harvard Business Review Press (2005) How to Activate the Maverick Synapses Note: I read this book many years ago and then composed the review that follows. Books…
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Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed Alexis Ohanian Business Plus/Hatchette Book Group (2013) More heat than light What follows is a review of this book, not an evaluation of its author, although In Part…
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