Book Reviews
Team Turnarounds: A Playbook for Transforming Underperforming Teams Joe Frontiera and Daniel Leidl Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why results-driven, high-impact teams can transform organizations at all levels and in all areas With rare exception, the best business books are…
Read MoreManagement in 10 Words: Practical Advice from the Man Who Created One of the World’s Great Retailers Terry Leahy Crown Business (2012) Whatever the “talk,” it must be “walked” to have any credibility. The most substantial benefit from this book is…
Read MoreThe Virtual Executive: How to Act Like a CEO Online and OffLineD.A. Benron McGraw-Hill (2012) In the “real” world, real people have real impact – or don’t – and the same is often true of those in the virtual world, also. Some of those…
Read MoreSelling Sunshine: 75 Tips, Tools, and Tactics for Becoming a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur Tony Hartl Greenleaf Book Group (2011) “Wildly successful”? Perhaps…. Whether or not reading this book will enable a significant number of aspiring entrepreneurs to become “wildly successful” is possible but, given the odds, highly unlikely. Tony…
Read MoreThe Republic: The Influential Classic Plato, with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone Publishing Ltd (2012) A timely and timeless affirmation of what is real…and a rejection of what is not Those who have read one or more of the volumes…
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