Book Reviews
Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered Austin Kleon Workman Publishing Company (2014) “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works….” Matthew 5:16 As Austin Kleon explains, his previous…
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The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids Quanyu Huang Prometheus Books (2014) Why what a country can achieve depends almost entirely on the education and cultivation of its children As I began to read this book,…
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Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Crown Business (2014) How to increase and improve “pockets of peak performance” throughout the given enterprise Three of the greatest separate but related challenges…
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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World Jane McGonical The Penguin Press 2011) How an why “people who understand the power and potential of games…will be the people who invent our future”…
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The CEO Difference: How to Climb, Crawl, and Leap Your Way to the Next Level of Your Career D.A. Benton McGraw-Hill (2014) Key insights on personal growth and professional development Why did Debra Benton write this book? “My purpose is…
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A Playful Path Bernard De Koven Lulu.com (2014) “Games are clues to the future. And their serious cultivation now is perhaps our only salvation.” Bernard Suits This is the latest in a series of books and articles that Bernie De…
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Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability Faisal Hogue with Drake Baer McGraw-Hill (2014) How and why having more and better connections creates more and better opportunities Faisal Hoque wrote this book…
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Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World John P. Kotter Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to move quickly enough to stay ahead of the competition “in an age of tumultuous change and growing uncertainties” I have read all…
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The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil Christine Bader Bibliomotion (2014) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”: A tale of two companies and more, much more First of all, many people…
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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company and Revolutionized an Industry Marc Benioff Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison It’s always interesting as well as instructive to…
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