Book Reviews
The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age John Heider Humanics New Age (2005) Timeless wisdom for each new age The value and impact of leadership can be measured in many different ways. Two…
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The Science of Getting Rich: The Original Classic Wallace D. Wattles, with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone Publishing Ltd. (2011) “To understand the science of getting rich is therefore the essential of all knowledge.” Wallace Wattles Those who have…
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Golden Opportunity: Remarkable Careers That Began at McDonald’s Cody Teets Cider Hill Press (2012) How arches of opportunity can become bridges to remarkable achievement What led Codie Teets to write this book? Weary of and insulted by “the bad rap…
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Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest of Young Business Leaders John Coleman, Daniel Gulati, and W. Oliver Segovia Harvard Business Review Press (2012) “Never doubt the power of a small group of people to change the world. Indeed,…
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The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills Daniel Coyle Bantam Books/A Random House imprint (2012) Lessons learned from “hotbeds” of creativity about how best to develop talents to their full potential For more than 20 years,…
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Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business Harley Manning and Kerry Bodine New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2012) There’s “bad news” and there’s “good news” Development of the concept of customer-centrism predates Barbara Bund’s business…
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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter Liz Wiseman with Greg McKeown HarperBusiness (2010) How to increase or diminish human capabilities…including your own Note: I read and reviewed this book when it was published (2010) and recently re-read it…
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Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us Duncan J. Watts Crown Business (2011) How we can “revolutionize our understanding of ourselves and how we interact” As I began to read this book, I was reminded of a passage in Paul Schoemaker’s latest book, Brilliant…
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Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World Michael Hyatt Thomas Nelson (2012) How to “get noticed and win big in an increasingly noisy world” Given the blizzards of messages we receive electronically and the cacophony of voices competing for attention, it is much more difficult now than…
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The Upside of the Downturn: Ten Management Strategies to Prevail in the Recession and Thrive in the Aftermath Geoff Colvin Portfolio/The Penguin Group (w009) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. If anything, it…
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