Book Reviews
101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization Vijay Kumar John Wiley & Sons (2013) “If innovation is so important, why aren’t more organizations better at it? Why are innovation failure rates so high?” Vijay Kumar…
Read MoreTrain Your Brain For Success: Read Smarter, Remember More, and Break Your Own Records Roger Seip John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to increase personal growth and professional development with accelerated learning to achieve “record-breaking” results” Roger Seip is not…
Read MoreThe Catalyst: How You Can Become an Extraordinary Growth Leader Jeanne Liedtka, Robert Rosen, and Robert Wiltback Crown Business (2009) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. If anything, what it offers is even more…
Read MoreTaking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships…Your Life Merrick Rosenberg and Daniel Silvert FT Press/Pearson Group (2012) Birdseye views on how to transform individual people as well as the relationships and organizations they share The…
Read MoreInfectious: How to Connect Deeply and Unleash the Energetic Leader Within Achim Nowak Allworth Press (2013) How to forge and then sustain mutually beneficial relationships at different levels of communication Never before (at least that I can remember) were communication…
Read MoreYour Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More Jason W. Womack John S. Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why taking “Baby steps” can lead to giant achievements In the film What About Bob (1991), Richard Dreyfuss…
Read MoreChasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance Boris Groysberg Princeton University Press (2010) How and why the productivity of some people “massively outstrips that of their colleagues” I cannot recall a prior time in U.S. business…
Read MoreWin with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data Jean-Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to leverage business analytics to create value for everyone involved in the given enterprise Most of what I…
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