Book Reviews
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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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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