Book Reviews
The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed Portfolio/Penguin Group (2013) The paradox of exceptional organizational performance: Do not be an exception to three rules With rare exception, the best business books are research/evidence-driven and…
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The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People Neil Shubin Pantheon/A Division of Random House (2013) A sublimely beautiful truth: “Within each of us lie some of the most profound stories of all.” Scientists are especially…
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Finerman’s Rules: Secrets I’d Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life Karen Finerman Business Plus (2013) Are you a honey badger? This book’s subtitle suggests that Karen Finerman shares in it “secrets” she would only tell her daughters “about…
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Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology Bob Lord and Ray Velez John Wiley & Sons (2013) “The villain throughout this book is the silo.” Increasingly and more extensively, successful brands are using technology to create memorable…
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12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance Brian Tracy and Peter Chee McGraw-Hill (2013) No so much “disciplines” as they are dimensions of a mindset The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 45,249 books that…
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HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across HBR Editors and Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why to manage up to nourish and manage across to connect extensively within and beyond the given enterprise This is one…
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Results-Based Leadership: How Leaders Build the Business and Improve the Bottom Line Dave Ulrich, Jack Zenger, and Norman Smallwood Harvard Business Review Press (1999) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison This book was first published in 1999 and as…
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Mind Code: How the Language We Use Influences the Way We Think Charles E. Bailey GIST Publishing (2013) How to develop a practical understanding of the relationships between and among language, the human brain, behavior, and nature The subtitle suggests…
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Organizational Culture and Leadership (Fourth Edition) Edgar H. Schein Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2010) How and why organizational cultures, microcultures, macrocultures, and subcultures reveal multidimensional human nature This is the latest edition of a “business classic” that was first published in…
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