Book Reviews
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter I am pleased that A.G. Lafley has co-authored another book, with…
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Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman Basic Books (1998) Note: I re-read this book recently before completing an extensive revision of the material I will use for a workshop on high-impact teamwork for…
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Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business John Mackey and Raj Sisodia Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Why John Mackey and Raj Sisodia are convinced that “Conscious Capitalism will become a dominant paradigm for how to do business” In this book, John Mackey and Raj…
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Decide & Deliver: Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization Marcia W. Blenko, Michael C. Mankins, and Paul Rogers Harvard Business Review Press (2010) How and why making the right decisions will sustain superior performance This book’s co-authors, Marcia…
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The Art of Explanation: Making Your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand Lee LeFever John Wiley & Sons (2013) A brilliant explanation of how to explain more successfully so that you as well as others really “get it” Exposition…
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Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance George Kohlrieser Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2006) How to avoid becoming or remaining a “hostage” to self-defeating expectations of you (including your own) The title of this review was suggested by Ernest…
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The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results Calhoun W. Wick, Roy V. H. Pollock, Andy Jefferson, and Richard Flanagan Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2003) Note: This is an excellent example of a book…
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Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why focused, individual work can achieve innovation breakthroughs when combined with structured team interaction However different they may be in many respects, all…
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Harper Perennial/HarperCollins (2012) Here are dozens of perspectives on what are, for most people, new scientific concepts for self-improvement Edge.org is a website offering an abundance of…
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Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard J. Tellis Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to avoid or overcome “the incumbent’s curse” to achieve market dominance By nature, books about innovation should contribute something new and/or something…
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