Book Reviews
Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions Phil Rosenzweig PublicAffairs (2014) Why understanding the decision making process as well as the roles of action and analysis “can improve the odds of success” As I began to read this…
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Idea to Invention: What You Need to Know to Cash In On Your Inspiration Patricia Nolan-Brown AMACOM (2014) “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” Howard…
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Power Relationships: 26 Irrefutable Laws for Building Extraordinary Relationships Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas John S. Wiley & Sons (2014) Two questions: “How healthy are your relationships?” and “What does that reveal about you?” I have read and reviewed two…
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Romancing the Brand: How Brands Create Strong, Intimate Relationships with Consumers Tim Halloran Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) How to identify the right customer with whom to engage in a relationship, then sustain it to mutual benefit We have learned a…
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Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters. Michael Bungay Stanier Workman Publishing (2010) All in one volume: A workbook, operations manual, supercharger, compass, mirror…and built-in/shock-proof crap detector I read this book when it was first…
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Clio among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities Peter Charles Hoffer NYU Press (2013) How and why “history stands, and should stand, at the center of our quest for a truly humane spirit” The title refers to Clio…
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Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing our World George Gilder Regnery Publishing Company/An Eagle Imprint (2013) Why “the ultimate strengths and crucial weaknesses of both capitalism and democracy are their relevance on individual…
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HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2014) In fact, this material can help almost anyone manage stress almost anywhere This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that…
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The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs & Boost Profits Zeynep Ton New Harvest/Amazon Publishing and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) The best strategy to achieve business success? It’s really so simple…and, yes, so…
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Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power Dan Hurley Hudson Street Press/The Penguin Group (2013) How and why revelations from recent research in neuroscience help us to be smarter about becoming smarter With rare exception, the best works of…
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