Book Reviews
The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing Michael Mauboussin Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to “untangle” skill and luck to improve at “the art of good guesswork” when making decisions I have…
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win Steven Gary Blank Quad/Graphics (Third Edition, 2007) Here is “a radical reexamination of the entire new product introduction process”…and almost everything that precedes it Note: The review that…
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Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business Michael Hugos O’Reilly Media (2012) How games can help business leaders to respond more effectively to crises as well as to opportunities Games may well be the first non-violent activity…
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The Leader’s Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation John Baldoni AMACOM (2012) Valuable reminders for effective leadership at all levels and in all areas of the given enterprise Those who have read one or more of John Balboni’s previous…
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The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation John C. Bogle John Wiley & Sons (2012) How a culture of short-term speculation now dominates a traditional culture of long-term investment…and why that must end The “clash” to which the title…
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Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics James Taylor IBM Press/Pearson 2012 How business principles and predictive analytics can help to prepare leaders and their organizations for almost any contingency Opinions are divided, sometimes…
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HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2012) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker This is one of…
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Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy Daniel Denison, Robert Hooijberg, Nancy Lane, and Colleen Lief Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) Why and how both culture and strategy must be aligned and integrated throughout any organizational change process…
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb Random House (2012) How to build “a systematic and broad guide to nonpredictive decision making under uncertainty Here is the context (in the Prologue) from which an excerpt serves as the…
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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success William N. Thorndike, Jr. Harvard Business Review Press (2012) Whatever got an organization here probably won’t get it there There are countless examples of once-great companies such as…
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