Book Reviews
A Culture of Purpose: How to Choose the Right People and Make the Right People Choose You Christoph Lueneburger Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) A brilliant analysis of perhaps the single most important dimension of organizational alignment Accord to Jim Collins…
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The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How and why the human sciences address “the reality of people’s lives at their most complex…and…
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The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World Aaron Hurst Elevate/A Russell Media Company (2014) A rigorous examination of the key levers that can be used to advance the evolution of markets…
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Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly John Kay Penguin Books (2011) “Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Success in circuit lies.” Emily Dickinson The Dickinson quotation suggests — as does the subtitle of John Kay’s book…
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Building Your Business the Right-Brain Way: Sustainable Success for the Creative Entrepreneur Jennifer Lee New World Library (2014) This is a WORK book for those who are willing and able to nourish and make effective use of their right brain.…
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Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough Success Rod Pyle McGraw-Hill (2014) Valuable business lessons to be learned from a truly unique “engine of innovation” Until reading and then re-reading this book, almost everything I…
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Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness Frederic Laloux Nelson Parker (2014) How and why to create, develop, and sustain “a more soulful, purposeful, and productive workplace” Recent and extensive research on…
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Step Up: Lead in Six Moments that Matter Henry Evans and Colm Foster Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) How to “step up and demonstrate leadership in important moments, with or without the official title and authority to do so. What Henry…
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Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact Nick Morgan Harvard Business Review Press (2014) A rigorous and comprehensive exploration of where and what determine the value of interactions [comma] for better or…
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Malcolm Gladwell on Think Like a Freak
In one of the many wonderful moments in Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain , Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner ask the question: “Who is easier to fool—kids or adults?” The obvious answer,…
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