Book Reviews
Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy Paul B. Brown with Charles F. Kiefer and Leonard A. Schlesinger AMACOM (2012) Here’s an “owner’s manual for having a more successful life” on the…
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The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator’s Guide to Creativity Marty Neumeier New Riders/Peachpit/Pearson (2014) How to become – if not a genius – at least someone who thinks more creatively and enjoys life more, indeed much more I have…
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Think Bigger: Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business Mark van Rijmenam AMACOM (2014) Here’s a multi-dimensional paradigm shift that will become a tsunami Where to begin? This book covers so much and covers it so well that…
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How I Did It: Lessons from the Front Lines of Business Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2014) Cutting-edge perspectives on the unique leadership challenges at the CEO-level There were 14 editors involved with these essays, written by 34 CEOs,…
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Management Brian Tracy AMACOM (2014) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker This is one of the volumes in The Brian Tracy Success Library. Thus far,…
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#GIRLBOSS Sophia Amoruso Portfolio/Penguin Putnam (2014) This is a personal memoir in the picaresque tradition Some readers could be deterred by a writing style that may seem to resemble narcissism on steroids. Other readers who are not put off by…
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The Mobile Mind Shift: Engineer Your Business to Win in the Mobile Moment Ted Schadler, Josh Bernoff, and Julie Ask Groundswell Press (2014) How and why the entrepreneurial mindset is uniquely capable of exploiting and creating the mobile mind shift…
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Pivot Points: Five Decisions Every Successful Leader Must Make Julia Tang Peters John Wiley & Sons (2014) Valuable lessons to be learned from five male leaders Julia Tang Peters focuses on five male leaders, devoting a separate chapter to each,…
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The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation Josh Linkner Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) If you don’t constantly challenge your status quo, you can be certain that someone else will. In a previous book, Disciplined Dreaming, Josh…
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Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation Melanie Franklin Wiley (2014) Change management is impossible without change agents who have an agile mindset The last time I checked, Amazon offers 13,473 books on one or…
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