Book Reviews
Leading Firms: How Great Professional Service Firms Succeed & How Your Firm Can Too David Kuhlman SelectBooks (2013) Valuable perspectives on the unique and complicated world of professional services Since 1986 when I established my independent management consulting firm, I…
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Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football . . . Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas Grant McCracken Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How to test the world and discover meaning in…
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Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future Dorie Clark Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde Don’t be deterred by the title. I wasn’t only because I hold Dorie Clark in such regard…
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Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America Charles H. Ferguson Crown Business (2012) The nature and extent of ethical and financial kudzu Other reviews have (collectively) covered most of the most important points to be made…
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Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas John Butman Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How the idea entrepreneur goes public, breaks out, and achieves influence (and how you can, too) is the subject of this…
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What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan Harvard Business Review Press (2013) To paraphrase Walt Whitman, “We are large, we contain multitudes.” Self-improvement initiatives or, if you prefer, self-fulfillment or self-actualization…
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The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power Bill Schley John Wiley & Sons (2013) “We take good care of our people, they take good care of our customers, and our customers take good care of our shareholders.” Former chairman and CEO…
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Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life Ken Robinson Portfolio/Penguin (2013) Finding your Element is “vital to understanding who you are and what you’re capable of being and doing with your life.” According…
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The Commitment Engine: Making Work Worth It John Jantsch Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) The power of a voluntary and passionate commitment to a shared purpose Whatever their source of power (e.g. wind, weather, coal, nuclear fission), the most effective engines throughout…
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The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook Mark Eaton KoganPage (2013) A lean explanation of how to introduce or improve effectiveness of Lean initiatives in almost any organization In a remarkably informative Introduction, Mark Eaton explains why he wrote this book, briefly reviews…
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