Book Reviews
Promote Yourself: The new rules for building an outstanding career Dan Schawbel St. Martin’s Griffin (2013) Here’s a book for those who have no clear career roadmap and are willing to invest time and effort to advance their Why did…
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What the Plus! Guy Kawasaki McGraw-Hill (2013) If Google+ is right for you, here’s what you need to know to take full advantages of what it offers. The abundance of information, insights, and counsel that Kawasaki provides is well-worth knowing…
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Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play Marc Ostrofsky Simon & Schuster (2013) “The new rule in business: Money doesn’t grow on trees; it grows in databases!” The title of my review…
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The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success Alan S. Gregerman Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) How and why it is imperative to engage, learn from, and collaborate with strangers As I began to read this book,…
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Edited by John Brockman Harper Perennial (2007) “Yesterday’s dangerous idea is today’s orthodoxy and tomorrow’s cliché.” — Richard Dawkins According to founder and editor, John Brockman, the Edge Question was first posed in 1998: “What…
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The Sources of Innovation Eric von Hippel Oxford University Press (1988) In the “cave” of innovation shadows, here is a primary source of light To those of you who are unfamiliar with Eric von Hippel, here is an introduction: “I…
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The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity Phil Stutz and Barry Michels Spiegel & Grau/Random House (2012) How a transformation of negatives into positives can help people to achieve personal growth and professional development This book has…
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Squirrels, Boats and Thoroughbreds: Lessons for Leading Change, in Traditional Businesses Jamie Gerdsen River Grove Books (2013) Unconventional perspectives on convention and on how to control change by embracing it Whatever their size and nature may be, most organizations seem…
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The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Here’s how to tap “trillions of dollars in potential value at the…
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Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights Gary A. Klein PublicAffairs (2013) A brilliant explanation of what triggers insights, what interferes with recognizing them, and how to nourish them Long ago, I realized that the true value…
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