Book Reviews
Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning Chip R. Bell and Marshall Goldsmith Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Once upon a time, about 3,000 years ago…. According to Homer’s account in The Odyssey, before departing with his troops from his kingdom in…
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books (2009) Note: I recently re-read this book while preparing for an interview and found the essays even in this volume even more interesting now than I did five…
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Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Almost everything most business leaders know about analytics they have learned from Tom Davenport and the material…
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Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Harvard Business Review Press (2013) What non-quants need to understand in order to take full advantage of the results that quantitative analysis…
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Digital State: How the Internet is Changing Everything Simon Pont, Editor and one of several contributors KoganPage (2013) A collaborative consideration of the meaning and significance of the Digital Age In the Introduction, Simon Pont observes, “I think the Digital…
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Stiletto Network: Inside the Women’s Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business Pamela Ryckman AMACOM (2013) Stiletto Networks “are about trying to make your own personal dent in the world.” I could easily do without the juvenile nomenclature…
Read MoreLeadership Sustainability: Seven Disciplines to Achieve the Changes Great Leaders Know They Must Make Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood McGraw-Hill (2013) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle I was wondering…
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The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed Portfolio/Penguin Group (2013) The paradox of exceptional organizational performance: Do not be an exception to three rules With rare exception, the best business books are research/evidence-driven and…
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The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People Neil Shubin Pantheon/A Division of Random House (2013) A sublimely beautiful truth: “Within each of us lie some of the most profound stories of all.” Scientists are especially…
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Finerman’s Rules: Secrets I’d Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life Karen Finerman Business Plus (2013) Are you a honey badger? This book’s subtitle suggests that Karen Finerman shares in it “secrets” she would only tell her daughters “about…
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