Book Reviews
Subliminal: How the Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior Leonard Mlodinow Vintage Books/Random House (2012) How and why “the work done by the unconscious is a critical part of our evolutionary mechanism” Some of the best introductions to a work of…
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Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy Irv Rothman John S. Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why most (if not all) organizations get the results they are designed to produce, 12 Nov 2013…
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The Birkman Method: Your Personality at Work Sharon Birkman Fink and Stephanie Capparell Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How and why the more you help others to fulfill their potentialities, the more they will do to help you fulfill yours The…
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Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers Niraj Dawar Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why downstream, customer-led activities and preferences will dominate the competitive landscape in the future Niraj Dawar offers an exceptionally thoughtful and thought-provoking examination…
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As I worked my way through Burkus’ lively and eloquent narrative, I was also keenly interested in his discussion Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s insights relevant to incubation in Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1997): “Once the incubation stage…
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Johnny Carson Henry Bushkin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013) “Here’s Johnny!” or at least what he was willing to seem Let’s start with a multiple-choice question. According to Henry Bushkin, Johnny Carson (1925-2005) could be (a) Irresistibly charming (b) Distant and…
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When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Walter C. Swap Harvard Business Review Press (2005) How to Activate the Maverick Synapses Note: I read this book many years ago and then composed the review that follows. Books…
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Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed Alexis Ohanian Business Plus/Hatchette Book Group (2013) More heat than light What follows is a review of this book, not an evaluation of its author, although In Part…
Read MoreGrounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted in an Uncertain World Bob Rosen Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2014) The leadership skills needed to cope with speed, impermanence, complexity, transparency, competition, and globalization Over the years, I have interviewed hundreds of thought leaders (many…
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Trust Inc: Strategies for Building Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset Barbara Brooks Kimmel, Editor Next Decade, Inc. (2014) How and why a high trust culture is one within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive Curious,…
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