Book Reviews
The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War A.J. Baime Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) A true tale “that rivals the weirdest fiction and wildest imaginings of the comic books.” In his previously…
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Trajectory: 7 Career Strategies to Take You from Where You Are to Where You Need to Be David L. Van Rooy AMACOM (2014) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith Think of an organization’s history as a…
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Challenge the Ordinary: Why Revolutionary Companies Abandon Conventional Mindsets, Question Long-Held Assumptions, and Kill Their Sacred Cows Linda D. Henman Career Press (2014) “Yesterday’s dangerous idea is today’s orthodoxy and tomorrow’s cliché.” — Richard Dawkins I agree with Linda Henman…
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Hunting in a Farmer’s World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur John F. Dini Gardendale Press (2013) How and why all “farms” need both hunters and farmers During his remarks at an annual meeting of GE shareholders, then chairman and…
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Difference: The one-page method for reimagining your business and reinventing your marketing Bernadette Jiwa The Story of Telling Press How to combine difference thinking with empathy to reveal truth, recognize the opportunity in that truth, and then act on it…
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The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to cope with the “fundamental disconnect of modern employment” What is the “fundamental disconnect” to which Reid Hoffman, Ben…
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Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of Business Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring John Wiley & Sons (2014) How and why halo issues are, in fact, business issues for…
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Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion David Zweig Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) “There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson In an…
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What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters Daniel Goleman More Than Sound (2014) The “green thumb” needed to “grow” leaders My wife is a gourmet chef and what she demonstrated again last evening is that a great dinner depends…
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Taming the Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics Bill Franks John Wiley & Sons (2014) How Big Data can help any organization improve productivity, create value, stay competitive, and recognize new trends What…
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