Book Reviews
Feed the Startup Beast: A 7-Step Guide to Big, Hairy, Outrageous Sales Growth Drew Williams and Jonathan Verney McGraw-Hill (2013) How and why “the smallest market efforts can produce outsized sales results if you focus on the right issues” The…
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What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences Steven G. Mandis Harvard Business Review Press (2013) An insider’s account of the decline and fall of a once great firm that was “greedy, but…
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Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble St. Martin’s Press (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison According to Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, “The most important message in Beyond the…
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Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business Bruce Poon Tip BusinessPlus (2013) How and why core values and shared purpose can help any social enterprise to achieve sustainable profitability The most popular career advice includes the suggestion…
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A Life In Leadership: From D-Day to Ground Zero: An Autobiography John Whitehead Basic Books (2005) Note: I re-read this book before reading Steven Mandis’ recently published book, What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organization Drift, published…
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The Art of Business: In the Footsteps of Giants Raymond T. Yeh with Stephanie H. Yeh Zero Time Publishing (2014) Note: Occasionally I re-read a book published years ago simply for the pleasure of spending time again with a dear…
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Reply All…And Other Ways to Tank Your Career Richie Frieman St. Martin’s Griffin (2013) Here’s the bad news: Many people are rude. Now the good news: Some of them are people you compete with. Advice on what not to do…
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Follow the Leader: The One Thing Great Leaders Have that Great Followers Want Emmanuel Gobillot Kogan Page (2013) Charisma can attract but cannot alone sustain great followership. This book’s subtitle caught my eye: “The one thing great leaders have that…
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Promote Yourself: The new rules for building an outstanding career Dan Schawbel St. Martin’s Griffin (2013) Here’s a book for those who have no clear career roadmap and are willing to invest time and effort to advance their Why did…
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What the Plus! Guy Kawasaki McGraw-Hill (2013) If Google+ is right for you, here’s what you need to know to take full advantages of what it offers. The abundance of information, insights, and counsel that Kawasaki provides is well-worth knowing…
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