Book Reviews
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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MOOCs: Opportunities, Impacts, and Challenges: Massive Open Online Courses in Colleges and Universities Michael Nanfito CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2013) How and why MOOCs offer learning opportunities that, for millions of people, would otherwise be unavailable Early in his narrative,…
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The Age of the Moguls Stewart Hall Holbrook Transaction Publishers (2010) “Lords of capital” in “a savage and gaudy age” First, some brief background information about Stewart Hall Holbrook (1893-1964). Throughout his adult years, he was at first a lumberjack…
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Greg Mckeown Crown Business/Imprint of Crown Publishing Group “Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.” Albert Einstein As I began to read this book for the first time, I was again reminded…
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Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers with Paul Carroll Melcher Media/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) How to take full advantage of the abundance of unprecedented business opportunities during the new…
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Show and Tell: How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations Dan Roam Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) How and why the heart will follow the truth, understanding will follow a story, and the mind will follow the eye. In my opinion, Dan…
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More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times Constance Rosenblum, Editor New York University Press (2010) 50 unique and compelling perspectives on a city that is large, one that contains multitudes In her…
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Measuring and Improving Social Impacts: A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors Marc J. Epstein and Kristi Yuthas Berrett-Koehlker Publishers, Inc. (2014) How any organization (whatever its size and nature may be) can substantially increase and improve its positive…
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