Book Reviews
Beyond the Job Description: How Managers and Employees Can Navigate the True Demands of the Job Jesse Sostrin Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press (2013) Here’s a “compass” to navigate “the ecology and terrain of work’s greatest challenges” The subtitle of this…
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“Natural hitter my ass” was Williams’ response when someone suggested he was a great “natural hitter.” In fact, he had spent more time than any other baseball player ever has — or ever will– working on the techniques of hitting a…
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them Joshua Greene The Penguin Press (2013) How and why “we can improve our prospects for peace and prosperity by improving the way we think about moral problems” When I…
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World Thomas Cahill Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (2013) A brilliant examination of who and what accelerated the development of western civilization This is Volume VI in Thomas Cahill’s “Hinges of…
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Brad Stone Little, Brown and Company (2013) How and why “Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started” Disclaimer: Several reviewers (including…
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Trust, Inc.: How to Create a Business Culture That Will Ignite Passion, Engagement, and Innovation Nan Russell Career Press (2014) How to establish, nourish, and sustain a culture based on mutual trust It is no coincidence that many (if not…
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True Alignment: Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results Edgar Papke AMACOM (2013) How to achieve and then sustain alignment of customer needs with an organization’s leadership, culture, and brand intention If it were possible to retain Albert…
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Happiness: A New Perspective James Hadley Glenmore Publications (2013) A sound and sensible discussion of happiness on the other side of complexity Totaling 73 pages plus notes, this is a booklet rather than a book, one in which James Hadley…
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Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Jocelyn Glei, Editor Amazon Publishing (2013) “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” Stephen…
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Innovating Analytics: Word of Mouth Index- Use the Next Generation of Net Promoter to Increase Sales and Drive Results Larry Freed John Wiley & Sons (2013) How and why the best innovations in customer experience analytics can create a decisive…
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