Book Reviews
The Power of Why: Breaking Out in a Competitive Marketplace Richard Weylman New Harvest (April 2013) Why you must keep asking “Why?” until you understand why In his book Begin with Why, Simon Sinek asserts — and I agree —…
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Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire Bruce Nussbaum HarperBusiness (2013) How we can “increase our creative ability by learning from others, collaborating, sharing.” I selected one of Bruce Nussbaum’s observations to serve as the title of…
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The Creative Brain: The Science of Genius Nancy C. Andreasen Plume/Penguin Group (2006) How at least some humans “have managed to wrestle [themselves] out of dark caves and into a world ablaze with creative genius” As Nancy Andreasen explains in…
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Crisis Communications: The Definitive Guide to Managing the Message Steven Fink McGraw-Hill (2013) Why you should never “pick a fight with anyone who buys bandwidth by the geobyte” I read and reviewed Steven Fink’s previous book, Crisis Management: Planning for…
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Decide: Better Ways of Making Better Decisions David Wethey KoganPage Limited (2013) For better or worse, our lives are the consequences of our decisions According to David Wethey, “Decision science is a complex and rich academic area, quite apart from…
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Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable Steven Fink Backinprint.com After So Many Years, Still Relevant and Invaluable I read this book when it was first published in 1989 and decided to re-read its paperbound edition (2000), curious to learn to…
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Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons Lewis Schiff HarperBusiness (2013) Seven counterintuitive principles that can help you to achieve great success, however you define it According to Lewis Schiff, this book tells “the story of how…
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Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization Dan Pontefract Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to strengthen engagement, empowerment, and execution, then leverage them for a decisive competitive advantage In recent years, we have observed a tsunami of books, articles,…
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner Penguin Books (2012) How and why Bell Labs was once the most innovative scientific (and perhaps most commercial) organization in the world As I began to…
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Evgeny Morozov PublicAffairs/Perseus Books Group (2013) How and why the inefficiency of “solutionism” is compromising advanced technology I agree with Evgeny Morozov that a never-ending quest to ameliorate, what Tania…
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