Book Reviews
Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire Paul Smith AMACOM (2012) “Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.” This book is among the best that discuss one or more…
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Street Smart Disciplines of Successful People: 7 Indispensable Disciplines for Breakout Business Success John A. Kuhn and Mark K. Mullins CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2012) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein Einstein’s admonition stresses the…
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The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin FT Press/Pearson (2011) How and why global networks of highly specialized expertise create value in the challenge driven enterprise In Open Business Models (2003),…
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Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative Ken Robinson Capstone Publishing Ltd. (2011) How and why to think differently about learning to be creative This is a “New Edition, Fully Updated” of a book first published in 2001. Why…
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So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love Cal Newport Business Plus (2012)How and why “the craftsman mindset is the foundation for creating work you love” Curious, I checked on the…
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Lead By Greatness: How Character Can Power Your Success David Lapin Avoda Books (2012) “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Greatness” is one of the terms that have become essentially useless because their meaning…
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The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World Frans Johansson Portfolio/Penguin (2012) Why we are determined to explain random success, especially when it is inexplicable In an earlier book, The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson explains that this book is…
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The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing John Perry Workman Publishing (2012) “The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.” This review is from: The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to…
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Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success Matthew Syed Harper/A HarperCollins Imprint (2010) How and why peak performance really is achieved…or isn’t I first read this book when it was published (April 20, 2010) and then recently re-read it before reviewing it. As…
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The Value Investors: Lessons from the World’s Top Fund Managers Ronald W. Chan John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd. (2012) Unique perspectives on how to attempt to achieve and then sustain a “stellar” record in value investment In an…
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