Book Reviews
The Star Factor: Discover What Your Top Performers Do Differently–and Inspire a New Level of Greatness in All William Seidman and Richard Grbavac AMACOM (2013) How and why to adopt and adapt an Affirmative Leadership Program As William Seidman and…
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The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business Duff McDonald Simon & Schuster (2013) A remarkably circumspect examination of “the best finishing school in business” After briefly but sufficiently reviewing the historical background to the…
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High Octane Women: How Superachievers Can Avoid Burnout Sherrie Bourg Carter Prometheus Books (2011) Why burnout is not an individual problem, it’s an organizational and cultural problem…and what to do about it I agree with Sherrie Bourg Carter that there…
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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives — How Your Friends’ Friends’ Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company (2011) How…
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The New Corporate Facts of Life: Rethink Your Business and Transform Today’s Challenges into Tomorrow’s Profits Diana Rivenburgh AMACOM (2013) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith The Goldsmith assertion that serves as the title of this…
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Winning from Within: A Breakthough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting Change Erica Ariel Fox HarperBusiness/Imprint of HarperCollins (2013) Here is “a practical and accessible set of tools that explains how…to broker deals with others [and] make peace with ourselves”…
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Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation: What They Can’t Teach You at Business or Design School Idris Mootee John Wiley & Sons (2013) How cutting-edge design thinking can help business leaders respond to challenges that transcend specialized disciplines, First of all,…
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The Leader’s Guide to Speaking with Presence: How to Project Confidence, Conviction, and Authority John Baldoni AMACOM (2013)A primer that offers basic, invaluable advice Many of John Baldoni’s key points provided in this booklet were discussed in his previously published…
Read MoreSurrounded by Geniuses: Unlocking the Brilliance in Yourself, Your Colleagues, and Your Organization Alan S. Gregermnan Sourcebooks (2010) How and why winning in today’s competitive markets requires unlocking genius within us and in the world around us I deeply appreciated…
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What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World’s Greatest Professional Firms Charles D. Ellis John S. Wiley & Sons (2013) What sets the world’s greatest professional service firms apart from all the others Although Charles Ellis’ focus is…
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