Book Reviews
The CEO Difference: How to Climb, Crawl, and Leap Your Way to the Next Level of Your Career D.A. Benton McGraw-Hill (2014) Key insights on personal growth and professional development Why did Debra Benton write this book? “My purpose is…
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A Playful Path Bernard De Koven Lulu.com (2014) “Games are clues to the future. And their serious cultivation now is perhaps our only salvation.” Bernard Suits This is the latest in a series of books and articles that Bernie De…
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Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability Faisal Hogue with Drake Baer McGraw-Hill (2014) How and why having more and better connections creates more and better opportunities Faisal Hoque wrote this book…
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Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World John P. Kotter Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to move quickly enough to stay ahead of the competition “in an age of tumultuous change and growing uncertainties” I have read all…
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The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil Christine Bader Bibliomotion (2014) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”: A tale of two companies and more, much more First of all, many people…
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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company and Revolutionized an Industry Marc Benioff Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison It’s always interesting as well as instructive to…
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Data Crush: How the Information Tidal Wave is Driving New Business Opportunities Christopher Surdak AMACOM (2014) How to chart and then navigate an appropriate course during a “perfect storm” of converging demands Why did Christopher Surdak write this book? “I’ve…
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t Simon Sinek Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) Why our society now has a chemical imbalance and what we must do about it I agree with Simon Sinek: “Too many of…
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Edwin E. Catmull with Amy Wallace Random House (2014) How individuals as well as organizations can avoid or overcome blocks to creativity by managing the symbiotic…
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Smart Machines: IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm Columbia Business School Publishing (2013) How and why humans and cognitive computing can — and should — collaborate on improving quality of life…
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