Book Reviews
HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan A. Garner Harvard Business Review Pfress (2012) “I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.” Steven Wright This is one of the first volumes in a new series of anthologies of…
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Know What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen Michael Roberto Pearson Prentice Hall (2009) “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem.” Michael Roberto cites this especially relevant…
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Winning with Transglobal Leadership: How to Find and Develop Top Global Talent to Build World-Class Organizations Linda Sharkey, Nazneen Razi, Robert Cooke, and Peter Barge McGraw-Hill (2012) A brilliant examination of the critical leadership dimensions for business success in an…
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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…
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Train 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…
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The 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…
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Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing Dave Kerpen McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why social media can increase our ability to listen, to respond, and to be empathic as no other…
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Taking 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…
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Your 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…
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