Book Reviews
Marketing to Millennials: Reach the Largest and Most Influential Generation of Consumers Ever Jeff Fromm and Christie Garton AMACOM (2013) Why Millennials are probably the most powerful segment of buyers and influencers There are three ways to define the term…
Read MoreThe Buoyant Leader: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star (Kindle Edition) Kevin Allen Bibliomotion, Inc. (2013) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey As I began to read Kevin Allen’s latest book, I was reminded of the admonition,…
Read MoreWorthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value Daniel Isenberg Harvard Business Review Press (2013) A brilliant analysis of entrepreneurship as “the contrarian perception, creation, and capture of extraordinary value” Let’s say that a Mount Rushmore…
Read MoreCraving: Why We Can’t Seem to Get Enough Omar Manejwala, M.D. Hazelden® (2013) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle Other reviewers have addressed most of Omar Manejwala’s points while sharing…
Read More[What’s the Future of Business?]: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences Brian Solis John Wiley & Sons (2013) How to gain an understanding of the psychology of engagement between and among connected consumers First, an introduction to Brian Solis who…
Read MoreAdapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Tim Harford Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011) Natural selection and the creative process After reading and then re-reading this book, I remain unconvinced that success always begins with failure but agree with Tim Harford…
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