Book Reviews
X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman Harvard Business School Press (2007) A new teamwork model that combines an internal focus with an external approach Here is a review I posted five…
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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica Viking Adult (2009) What we can accomplish when “drawn effortlessly into the heart of the Element” Why did Ken Robinson write this book? He explains in his…
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Creating the Strategy: Winning and Keeping Customers in B2B Markets Rennie Gould KoganPage (2012) How to achieve the #1 objective in customer relations I wish I had a dollar for every time I have encountered someone insisting that, in customer…
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Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired Company Really Works Adam Lashinsky BusinessPlus (2012) Why and how a “productive narcissist” created a “giant jumble of contradictions and paradoxes” If for whatever reasons you have not as yet — and will not…
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The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention in a Media Democracy Simon Pont Kogan Page (2012) “Reality is a collective hunch.” Lily Tomlin When I noted the subtitle of Simon Pont’s book, “Brand Invention in a Media of Democracy,” I immediately –…
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Strategy for You: Building a Bridge to the Life You Want Rich Horwath Greenleaf Book Group Press (2012) If you have a dream, Rich Horwath can help you to make it come true. There are business situations in which the…
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Rework Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson Crown Business (2010) The benefits of having “a built-in, shock-proof crap detector” If Joseph Schumpeter were to design what could be called “creative destroyers,” he would probably come up with a business thinker…
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The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers Bill Conaty and Ram Charan Crown Business (2010) Note: I first read this book when it was published (November 9, 2010) and recently re-read it while preparing some interview questions.…
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Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2012) The power and value of serendipity on the other side of complexity As I began to read this book, I was reminded of an observation by…
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Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why “the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” in today’s business world Most of the…
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