Book Reviews
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris PublicAffairs (2012) How the story of U.S. business development “can be charted as an evolution from local to regional and finally national networks” What we have in this…
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Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China for Small- and Medium-Sized Companies Stanley Chao iUniverse, Inc. (2012) Cutting-edge but practical advice on how small- and medium-size companies can best do business in China Almost all of the…
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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History William Safire W.W. Norton (1997) If there is a better anthology of great speeches, I am not aware of it. The text from which its title is derived is Mark Antony’s speech…
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X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman Harvard Business School Press (2007) A new teamwork model that combines an internal focus with an external approach Here is a review I posted five…
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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica Viking Adult (2009) What we can accomplish when “drawn effortlessly into the heart of the Element” Why did Ken Robinson write this book? He explains in his…
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Creating the Strategy: Winning and Keeping Customers in B2B Markets Rennie Gould KoganPage (2012) How to achieve the #1 objective in customer relations I wish I had a dollar for every time I have encountered someone insisting that, in customer…
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Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired Company Really Works Adam Lashinsky BusinessPlus (2012) Why and how a “productive narcissist” created a “giant jumble of contradictions and paradoxes” If for whatever reasons you have not as yet — and will not…
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The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention in a Media Democracy Simon Pont Kogan Page (2012) “Reality is a collective hunch.” Lily Tomlin When I noted the subtitle of Simon Pont’s book, “Brand Invention in a Media of Democracy,” I immediately –…
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Strategy for You: Building a Bridge to the Life You Want Rich Horwath Greenleaf Book Group Press (2012) If you have a dream, Rich Horwath can help you to make it come true. There are business situations in which the…
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Rework Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson Crown Business (2010) The benefits of having “a built-in, shock-proof crap detector” If Joseph Schumpeter were to design what could be called “creative destroyers,” he would probably come up with a business thinker…
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