Book Reviews
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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Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Tim Brown HarperBusiness (2009) How to use design thinking to convert a need into a demand I recently read two books (this one written with Barry Katz and Roger…
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Lincoln: A President for the Ages Karl Weber, Editor and Contributor PublicAffairs/Participant Media (2012) Even without Spielberg’s great film with which it is associated, this book would still be a stunning achievement. Those who have already seen Steven Spielberg’s film may be surprised to learn…
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The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Caig Hickman Portfolio/Penguin Group (2004) Note: I recently re-read this book while formulating questions for an interview of its co-authors and found it even more…
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The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Josh Lerner Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How to combine two traditional models for innovation “within a powerful system that consistently and efficiently produces new ideas” By nature, books about innovation…
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Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance Jason Selk McGraw-Hill 2012) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford I share Jason Selk’s high regard for John Wooden, arguably the greatest…
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The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield PLUME/The Penguin Group “How do you do what you do?” Initially, I was eager to read this book…
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Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence: Selected Writings Daniel Goleman More Than Sound (2011) How leaders can “help people to get and stay in the brain zone [flow] where they can work at their Best” What we have in this…
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a fine line: how design strategies are shaping the future of business Hartmut Esslinger Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) Throughout the years since Hartmut Esslinger founded frog design (one of the world’s leading strategic design firms), having learned firsthand how truly…
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