Book Reviews
Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing Dave Kerpen McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why social media can increase our ability to listen, to respond, and to be empathic as no other…
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Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships…Your Life Merrick Rosenberg and Daniel Silvert FT Press/Pearson Group (2012) Birdseye views on how to transform individual people as well as the relationships and organizations they share The…
Read MoreInfectious: How to Connect Deeply and Unleash the Energetic Leader Within Achim Nowak Allworth Press (2013) How to forge and then sustain mutually beneficial relationships at different levels of communication Never before (at least that I can remember) were communication…
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Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More Jason W. Womack John S. Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why taking “Baby steps” can lead to giant achievements In the film What About Bob (1991), Richard Dreyfuss…
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Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance Boris Groysberg Princeton University Press (2010) How and why the productivity of some people “massively outstrips that of their colleagues” I cannot recall a prior time in U.S. business…
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Win with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data Jean-Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to leverage business analytics to create value for everyone involved in the given enterprise Most of what I…
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Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In Mark Goulston and John Ullman AMACOM (2013) “Letting the other chap have it your way.” One evening long ago while I was in Washington, a friend there invited me to…
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The Story of Purpose: The Path to Creating a Brighter Brand, a Greater Company, and a Lasting Legacy Joey Reiman John S. Wiley & Sons (2013) The importance of caring for a living In a previously published book, Thinking for…
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Managing Knowledge: Apply the Discoveries of Neuroscience & Understand the Human Factor Barry Evans Code Green Publishing (2011) How and why each of us “should fill each mercurial moment with conscious living, awareness, and experience.” Disclaimer: I have not as…
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science Richard Holmes Pantheon Books (2009) A brilliant examination of the Romantic spirit and its “great journey” during the evolution of science While explaining…
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