Book Reviews
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande Metropolitan Books (2014) Invaluable insights that reveal and affirm the importance of the quality of death It is impossible to calculate the number of lives that have been saved…
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How Google Works Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle Grand Central Publishing (2014) How and why Google continues to attract and retain so many “smart creatives” Before Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle, explain how Google…
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The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World’s Leading Health Care Organizations Toby Cosgrove, M.D. McGraw-Hill (2014) How and why group practices can provide much better – and much less expensive — healthcare There are valuable…
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Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn Harvard Business Review Press (2014) “You can’t escape failure”: How to use it to achieve great success that would not otherwise be possible As I began to…
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Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder Jim Clifton and Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal Gallup Press (2014) How and why innovation without successful entrepreneurship is “worthless” In my opinion, Jim Clifton is one of the most important and yet least appreciated business thinkers now discussing the…
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The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth James K. Galbraith Simon & Schuster (2014) The Great Confusion: Perhaps the problem lies with the economic principles or the way they have been understood As we now…
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The small BIG: small changes that spark BIG influence Steve J. Martin, Noah J. Goldstein, and Robert B. Cialdini Grand Central Publishing (2014) Why “it is often the smallest changes in approach that make the biggest difference” when it comes…
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What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton The Culture Works; HAR/PSC edition (September 2014) How to get your passions in proper alignment with how you want to live and what you want to do…
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Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate Michael Schrage Harvard Business Review Press (1999) Note: I read and reviewed this book when it was first published (1999) and recently re-read it before reading Michael Schrage’s latest, The…
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Managing Organizational Change: A Practical Toolkit for Leaders Helen Campbell Kogan-Page (2014) How to lead effective organizational change: Concise, substantial, practical, and do-able discussions and recommendations Most organizational change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original expectations and…
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