Book Reviews
Breakpoint: Why the Web Will Implode, Search will Be Obsolete, and Everything Else You Need to Know about Technology Is in Your Brain Jeff Stibel Palgrave Macmillan (2013) How and why problems associated with too much growth are as relevant…
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Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification Rajat Paharia McGraw-Hill (2013) How to build a stakeholder loyalty and engagement program that drives a competitive advantage for your enterprise According to Rajat Paharia, the…
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Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet Jeffrey M. Stibel Harvard Business Press (2009) How and why the Internet “is transformational…the first real external replication of the human brain that we’ve seen” With collaborative…
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Daniel C. Dennett W.W. Norton & Company (2013) Here is a process of natural selection that could (perhaps) help to achieve metacognition With regard to the title, Daniel Dennett observes, “Intuition pumps have…
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The Crowdsourced Performance Review: How to Use the Power of Social Recognition to Transform Employee Performance Eric Mosley McGraw-Hill (2013) How and why all organizations need a better model for performance reviews Opinions are divided – sometimes sharply divided –…
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On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling Michael Dirda Princeton University Press (2012) Welcome to “a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895” Years ago while at work…
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Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders David Kantor Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) Here’s a brilliant examination of one of the most important but seldom fully appreciated leadership skills An interview of David Kantor by Rutger von Postin…
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Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff Harvard Business School Press (2008) Note: I try to re-read at least two books a week that I first read years ago and am glad I…
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What’s the Future of Business? (WTF): Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences Brian Solis John Wiley & Sons (2013) How to gain an understanding of the psychology of engagement between and among connected consumers First, an introduction to Brian Solis…
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True Story: How to Combine Story and Action to Transform Your Business Ty Montague Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How to avoid organizational metastasis, especially during the Age of Connected Consumers If you wish to create or increase demand for…
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