Book Reviews
The Chocolate Conversation: Lead Bittersweet Change, Transform Your Business Rose Fass Bibliomotion (2013) Unless and until you communicate clearly and honestly with yourself, you probably won’t be able to do so with others. As I began to read this book,…
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence Joseph J. Ellis Alfred A. Knopf (2013) How and why “the political and military experiences” from May to October in 1776 “were two sides of the same story” True to form, in the…
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Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions That Keep Change Leaders Up at Night Phil Buckley Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand To paraphrase Sun Tzu, every change initiative succeeds or fails before it is launched I agree with Phil Buckley…
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Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry David C. Robertson with Bill Breen Crown Business (2013) How and why the phoenix became the unofficial bird of the LEGO Group The family-owned…
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win Steven Blank K&S Ranch (2013) Additional revelations and refinements to guide and inform the evolution of the Lean Startup Revolution Note: The review that follows is of the…
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Delegation & Supervision Brian Tracy AMACOM (2013) Absolutely essential core competencies for those who aspire to become great supervisors This is the latest volume added to The Brian Tracy Success Library. The others are Motivation and Negotiation, also published by…
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Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why innovation happens “better and quicker when you work inside the box” Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg must…
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Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War Thomas Kranish Oxford University Press (2010) Why Jefferson’s flights from Richmond and Monticello “were the lowest points of his public life” Having just read and reviewed Nathaniel Philbrick’s Bunker Hill, I decided to…
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Icons and Idiots: Straight Talk on Leadership Robert A. Lutz Portfolio/Penguin Group Buckle your seat belt and let Bob Lutz take you on a trip down his memory lane Those who have read Bob Lutz‘s previous book, Car Guys vs.…
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Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage Kaiser Fung McGraw-Hill (2013) How to cope with an information blizzard that has become a data tsunami I agree with an observation by Mark Twain: “Figures often beguile me, particularly when…
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