Book Reviews
Succession: Mastering the Make-or-Break Process of Leadership Transition Noel M. Tichy Portfolio/Penguin (2014) How and why leadership succession at all levels and in all areas is a continuous process to sustain organizational regeneration I know of no one else who…
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Lead Like it Matters…Because it Does: Practical Leadership Tools to Inspire and Engage Your People and Create Great Results Roxi Behar Hewertson McGraw-Hill (2015) Every organization needs effective leadership at all levels and in all areas of the given enterprise.…
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Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive Edward M. Hallowell, MD Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to “modulate distraction and overload while becoming happier, healthier, and more productive in the process” I have reviewed…
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World Mark Miodownik Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014) How and why we need to find out “where materials came from, how they work, and what they say about us.” The title…
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The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization Jacob Morgan John Wiley & Sons (2014) The future workplace environment: one within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to flourish Years…
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Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging Susan Fowler Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2014) Why and how we need to reevaluate traditional beliefs and practices in order to understand what motivation is…and isn’t Why…
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Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior Richard O’Connor Hudson Street Press/Penguin Group (2014) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle I came across Aristotle’s…
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Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company’s Deep Smarts Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap, and Gavin Barton Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to locate, obtain or develop, assimilate, manage, and leverage your organization’s “Deep Smarts” Dorothy Leonard is among…
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The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance Jim Blasingame SBN Books (2014) How and why all of a company’s initiatives must be in proper alignment to accommodate its customers’ expectations As I worked my way through…
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Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution Lisa Bodell Bibliomotion (2012) How to envision the future you want to create, make the necessary connections, and meanwhile engage in assumption reversal Obviously, it would be idiotic to…
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