Book Reviews
Optimizing Talent: What Every Leader and Manager Needs to Know to Sustain the Ultimate Workforce Linda D. Sharkey and Paul H. Eccher Information Age Publishing (2011) “Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”…
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Need, Speed, and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran Harper Business/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2012) A brilliant examination of “the new paradigm…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Boudreau for Talent Management magazine. He suggests that, for talent managers, “creating learning and change is as much about changing habits as it is about imparting skills or providing great experiences.” To check out all the resources and…
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Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfaction Matthew Kelly Hudson Street Press/The Penguin Group (2011) A paradox for our times: One’s career and personal life are separate…and inseparable The work-life balance is an issue that has fascinated me for decades. Hence my…
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I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World James Geary Harper/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2011) How and why the metaphor “lives a secret life all around us” Sometimes…
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Empathetic Marketing: How to Satisfy the 6 Core Emotional Needs of Your Customers Mark Ingwer Palgrave Macmillan (2012) How and why emotions and resulting behaviors are the foundation for satisfying complex psychological needs I was curious to know when someone would combine insights from several quite different concepts…
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Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, and Bill Huyett John Wiley & Sons (2011) How executives can make much better decisions – “even as markets, economies, and industries change around them” All organizations need a solid foundation on which their executives…
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Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, and Create the Future Leonard A. Schlesinger and Charles F. Kiefer with Paul B. Brown Harvard Business Review Press (2012) Why and how serial entrepreneurs thrive best in uncertain environments…and what lessons can be learned…
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Five Minds for the Future Howard Gardner Harvard Business School Press (2009) On nurturing “potentials that are distinctly human” I have read and reviewed all of Howard Gardner’s previous books and consider this, his latest, to be the most valuable thus far.…
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The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life Thomas M. Sterner New World Library (2012) How and why “focusing on and finding joy in the process of achieving instead of [merely] having a goal…is magical and incredibly empowering” For almost three decades, K. Anders Ericsson and…
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