Book Reviews
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain John Ratey with Eric Hagerman Little, Brown and Company (2008) Note: I recently re-read this book while working on a review of another book. In my opinion, the information, insights,…
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BrandingPays: The Five-Step System to Reinvent Your Personal Brand Karen Kang BrandingPays Media (2013) How to create or increase demand for the authentic value you offer For hundreds of years, people have branded their livestock for identification purposes. Samuel Augustus…
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Steven Johnson Riverhead Press/Penguin Group (2006) The Paradox of Water: It’s both the problem and (no pun intended) the solution The…
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Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift Ram Charan Crown Business (February 2013) For leaders in global companies, here are a compass, GPS, searchlight, x-ray machine, and microscope to find their way I have read and…
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The AIG Story Maurice R. Greenberg and Lawrence Cunningham John Wiley & Sons (2013) A “story” whose complexity defies pure objectivity but one that comes about as close as one could to explaining what happened Although two co-authors are identified,…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Teams Various Contributors with Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Most teams self-destruct. Don’t let that happen to yours. This is one in a series of anthologies of individual articles that…
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The Fearless Front Line: The Key to Liberating Leaders to Improve and Grow Their Business Ray Attiyah Bibliomotion Books & Media (2013) Two key questions: “Liberate leaders from what?” and “How to do that?” No one can deny that every…
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Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto Pearson Prentice Hall (2006) Note: I recently read this book while preparing for an interview and found its insights even more relevant and…
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The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? Chris Brogan and Julien Smith Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) Here’s the Formula for High-Impact Business Success: C x (R+E+A+T+E) Those who have already read Chris Brogan and Julien Smith’s…
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Who Says It’s a Man’s World: The Girls’ Guide to Corporate Domination Emily Bennington AMACOM (2013) A brilliant response to this question: “What does it take for women to win at the highest level?” As I began to read this…
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