Book Reviews
Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) How and why metacognition (highly-developed “knowing about knowing”) requires mastery of metaskills J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it…
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The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow Michael Macoby Harvard Business School Press (2007) The importance of “principled pragmatism” in a “market-dominated world” Note: I reviewed this book when it was first published and recently re-read it while…
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Into the Storm: Lessons in Teamwork from the Treacherous Sydney to Hobart Race Dennis N.T. Perkins with Jillian B. Murphy AMACOM (2012) The power of exceptional teamwork and distributed leadership when people are pressed to the limits of human endurance…
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Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. David Marquet Greenleaf Book Group Press (2012) Lessons about leadership to be learned from a year aboard a nuclear-powered attack submarine I recently read this book in combination…
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris PublicAffairs (2012) How the story of U.S. business development “can be charted as an evolution from local to regional and finally national networks” What we have in this…
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Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China for Small- and Medium-Sized Companies Stanley Chao iUniverse, Inc. (2012) Cutting-edge but practical advice on how small- and medium-size companies can best do business in China Almost all of the…
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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History William Safire W.W. Norton (1997) If there is a better anthology of great speeches, I am not aware of it. The text from which its title is derived is Mark Antony’s speech…
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X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman Harvard Business School Press (2007) A new teamwork model that combines an internal focus with an external approach Here is a review I posted five…
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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica Viking Adult (2009) What we can accomplish when “drawn effortlessly into the heart of the Element” Why did Ken Robinson write this book? He explains in his…
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Creating the Strategy: Winning and Keeping Customers in B2B Markets Rennie Gould KoganPage (2012) How to achieve the #1 objective in customer relations I wish I had a dollar for every time I have encountered someone insisting that, in customer…
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