Book Reviews
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way Amanda Ripley Simon & Schuster (2013) Valuable lessons to be learned from how school children are educated in Finland, South Korea, and Poland Amanda Ripley shares what she…
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What Keeps Leaders Up at Night: Recognizing and Resolving Your Most Troubling Management Issues Nicole A. Lipkin AMACOM (2013) Here are valuable leadership lessons to be learned from a former barefoot cobbler In her exceptionally thoughtful and thought-provoking Introduction, Nicole…
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Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic Bill Jensen Net Minds (2013) How-to-Figure-It-All-Out I have read and reviewed all of Bill Jensen’s previously published books and think Disrupt! is his most valuable — thus far — because it will have the widest…
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Moment of Battle: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World James Lacey and Williamson Murray Bantam Books/Rabdom House Publishing (2013) Twenty battles that “changed the flow of history in profoundly fundamental ways that still echo throughout the world” Although I…
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The Business of Belief: How the World’s Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs and Other Leaders Get Us to Believe Tom Asaker CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2013) “The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because…
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Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders Peter Fuda New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013) How and why leadership transformation can only be understood by thinking holistically. There are at least two ways to view the title of this book…
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Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential John Neffinger and Matthew Kohut Hudson Street Press/Penguin Group (2013) How and why, only when we cultivate both strength and warmth in our lives are we “worthy of admiration” John Neffinger…
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The Chocolate Conversation: Lead Bittersweet Change, Transform Your Business Rose Fass Bibliomotion (2013) Unless and until you communicate clearly and honestly with yourself, you probably won’t be able to do so with others. As I began to read this book,…
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence Joseph J. Ellis Alfred A. Knopf (2013) How and why “the political and military experiences” from May to October in 1776 “were two sides of the same story” True to form, in the…
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Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions That Keep Change Leaders Up at Night Phil Buckley Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand To paraphrase Sun Tzu, every change initiative succeeds or fails before it is launched I agree with Phil Buckley…
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