Book Reviews
Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee Harvard Business Review Press (2014) Invaluable lessons to be learned from Digital Masters about how to use technology to achieve business transformation Why did George Westerman,…
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy Eric Metaxas Thomas Nelson (2014) “Whoever I am, thou knowest, O God, I am thine.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer What more remains to be said about Dietrich Bonhoeffer? More to the point, what can I contribute to…
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Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett O’Reilly Media, Inc. (2013) “Torture the data enough and it will confess to anything.” Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize Laureate in…
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Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation Nicholas LaRusso, Barbara Spurrier, and Gianrico Farrugia McGraw-Hill (2014) How almost any organization can transform itself with high-impact innovation The success or failure…
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Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) Christian Rudder Crown (2014) Noah had his flood and it ended. Now we have ours and it will never end. To what does the title of this book refer? According…
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where and Why it Happens Benedict Carey Random House (2014) How to take full advantage of a host of techniques that deepen learning that remain largely unknown outside scientific circles As Benedict…
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload Daniel J. Levitin Dutton/The Penguin Group (2014) How to “recapture a sense of order and thereby regain the hours of time wasted by a disorganized mind” Clutter can full…
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Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It Ian Leslie Basic Books (2014) “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” Albert Einstein Strengthening observational skills is a worthy objective. However, if a person…
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The Innovator’s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to use the right tools to test, validate, and commercialize new ideas According to Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer,…
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The Wisdom of Oz: Using Personal Accountability to Succeed in Everything You Do Roger Connors and Tom Smith Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) Most limits are self-imposed: How to unleash the power of personal accountability to overcome the obstacles to your…
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