Book Reviews
The Case of the Missing Cutlery: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star Kevin Allen Bibliomotion (2014) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey As I began to read Kevin Allen’s latest book, I was reminded of the admonition,…
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The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently Sunni Brown Portfolio/Penguin Group (2014) How to make spontaneous marks (with your mind and body) to help yourself think with greater precision and clarity In this entertaining as well as informative…
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!nnovation: How Innovators Think, Act and Change Our World Kim Chandler McDonald KoganPage (2013) Valuable perspectives on and from within the emerging and evolving Global Digital Economy (GDE) This is the latest of several dozen books on innovation that I…
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Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face—and What to Do About It Richard S. Tedlow Portfolio/Penguin Group (2010) Note: I reviewed this book when it was first published and recently re-read it, curious to see how…
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Hacking Leadership: The 11 Gaps Every Business Needs to Close and the Secrets to Closing Them Quickly Mike Myatt John Wiley & Sons (2014) “Put simply, the greatest testimony to the power of real leadership is what happens in its…
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What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest Denise Lee Yohn Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2014) How and why your brand “is the experience that is actually delivered and communicated through everything you do”…
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Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan Francesca Gino Harvard Business Review Press (2013) A brilliant analysis of how we make decisions and why some decisions can be inconsistent with our original As…
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Talk is (Not!) Cheap: The Art of Conversation Leadership Jim McCann New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) A personal and practical discussion of basic communication objectives, strategies, and tactics As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of…
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The New Killer Apps: How Large Companies Can Out-Innovate Start-Ups Chunka Mui and Paul Carroll Cornerloft Press (2013) How your organization can get its share of $36 trillion of “reimagination” As I began to read this book, I was again…
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Ditch the Pitch: The Art of Improvised Persuasion Steve Yastrow SelectBooks (2014) Salesmanship “on the other side of complexity” Steve Yastrow has become convinced – and I agree – that the most effective communications are those that do NOT seem…
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