Book Reviews
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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: Ten New Skills You Must Learn to Stay Relevant and Customer-Centric Larry Weber and Lisa Leslie Henderson Wiley (2014) How and why effective marketing depends on finding new and better answers to the same questions Since the ancient bazaars…
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The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas into the Market Scott D. Anthony Harvard Business Review Press (2014) “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down…
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Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask (Second Edition) Michael J. Marquardt, Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand Unless you ask the right questions, you’ll never get the right answer and that indicates you probably don’t…
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Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How organizations can create more value with better management of complexity by abandoning both hard and soft approaches I agree…
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Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice Catherine Truss, Rick Delbridge, Kerstin Alfes, Amanda Shantz, and Emma Sloane, Co-Editors Routledge /Taylor & French Group (2014) Diverse perspectives on employee engagement and the practical implications of emerging engagement theories What we have…
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Gamify: How Gamification Motivates People to Do Extraordinary Things Brian Burke Bibliomotion (2014) How and why focusing on gamification can help organizations to motivate their people to achieve shared goals I was introduced to game theory when I enrolled in…
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2014) How and why mastering the economic approach will produce better answers to questions…
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