Book Reviews
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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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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