Book Reviews
How We Decide Jonah Lehrer Houghton Mifflin Company (2009) In the Introduction after sharing an experience aboard a simulated flight landing at Tokyo Narita International Airport, Lehrer observes: “In the end, the difference between landing my plane in one piece…
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Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto Adam Werbach Harvard Business Press (2009) Note: I recently re-read this book and learned even more of value this time. As Werbach explains in the Introduction, all companies have the opportunity to formulate and…
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life Alice Schroeder Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, First Edition (2008) To a great extent, his life has been business…and business has been his life I recently re-read Roger Lowenstein’s biography, Buffett: The Making…
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The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) A 21st century version of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave In his comments in the “Editor’s Note”…
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Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut John Wiley & Sons (2009) To the best of my knowledge, there is no better single source for expert guidance on…
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Repeatability: Build Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change Chris Zook and James Allen Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why simplifying operations, sharpening focus, and liberating energy can be an antidote to escalating complexity As Chris Zook…
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What Would Drucker Do Now? Solutions to Today’s Toughest Challenges from the Father of Modern Management Rick Wartzman McGraw-Hill (w3012) For every especially important question or an especially serious problem, Peter Drucker probably has the answer or solution. I recently…
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What Would Steve Jobs Do? How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Anyone to Think Differently and Win Peter Sander McGraw-Hill (2012) If you have “insanely great” talents, you don’t need this book. Otherwise…. I recently read this book and…
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Marketing Metrics: The Definitive Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance, Second Edition Paul Farris, Neil Bendle, Phillip Pfeifer, and David Reibstein Prentice Hall (2010) Note: The review that follows is of the Second Edition (2010), a sequel to Marketing Metrics: 50+…
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Serial Innovators: Firms That Change the World Claudio Feser John Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why continuous innovation and adaptation can help an organization “live” longer What we have here is a “hybrid” narrative that develops on two separate…
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