Book Reviews
The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan Bibliomotion (2013) A brilliant explanation of the ROI of a workplace community within which diversity and inclusion are core values If you were to…
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Predictive Analytics: the Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die Eric Siegel John Wiley & Sons (2013) The skills and tools needed to improve the accuracy of predictions of what will – and will not — happen…
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The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier Cy Wakeman Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to increase one’s value as well as eliminate whatever can diminish it and, meanwhile,…
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Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really…
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The Q-Loop: The Art & Science of Lasting Corporate Change Brian Klapper bibliomotion (2013) Here is a queue for achieving and then sustaining organizational excellence In every organization, whatever its size and nature may be, there are people who directly…
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Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results Roger Schwarz Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” Kenyan Proverb The last time I checked, Amazon offers 52,820 books for sale in…
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Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done Art Markman A Perigee Book/Penguin Group (2012) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter…
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From Smart to Wise: Acting and Leading with Wisdom Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to see the world “as it really is, without perceptual filters that manipulate motivation, decisions, and behavior” Throughout human history, the greatest leaders have been both…
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Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall Bibliomotion (2013) To paraphrase Pogo the possum, “We have met the customer and we are [or should be] her or him.” Over the years, I have read and reviewed hundreds of books…
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The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) First, you must be (or become) worthy of the referrals you seek. Whatever their source of power (e.g. wind, water, coal, nuclear fission), the most effective…
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