Book Reviews
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2012) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison For whatever reasons, many decision-makers are victims of…
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Awakened Leadership: Beyond Self-Mastery Alan E. Shelton Red Hatchet Press (2012) Why and how to “allow leadership to arise in you as you really are in any moment when leadership is called out” The core thesis of this book is that within each…
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Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done Ron Ashkenas Harvard Business School Press (2009) “Make it as simple as possible…but no simpler.” Albert Einstein Ron Ashkenas is one of my intellectual heroes. I have read, reviewed, and…
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The Power of Communication: Skills to Build Trust, Inspure Loyalty, and Lead Effectuvely Helio Fred Garcia FT Press/A Pearson imprint (2012) Leadership lessons to be learned from the military services, especially from the U.S. Marines As Helio Fred Garcia correctly notes in the Introduction to his…
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When Values Are Strategic: How the Basic Values of Procter & Gamble Transformed Leadership at Fortune 500 Companies Rick Tocqigny with Andy Butcher and the P&G Alumni Network FT Press/A Pearson Imprint (2012) A brilliant examination of the power and impact of core values that can transform individuals as…
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The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs Cynthia A. Montgomery HarperBusiness (2012) How and why to become a strategist “whose time at the helm could have a profound effect on the fortunes of your organization” Most of what I…
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Be•Know•Do: Leadership the Army Way: Adapted from the Official Army Leadership Manual Frances Hesselbein and Eric K. Shinseki (USA Ret.) Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader Institute, 1st Edition (2004) How to develop leaders who have character, competence, knowledge, and results-driven initiative I…
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Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Amy C. Edmondson Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) Why and how the most valuable organizational learning occurs: through teams Amy Edmondson characterizes “teaming” as “teamwork on the fly.” It could also be termed “informal collaboration on steroids.” Whatever,…
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The Winning Factor: Secrets from a Veteran Olympic and Corporate Coach Peter Jensen AMACOM (2012) How and why a “development bias” can help you to become very best you can be Opinions vary as to what the decisive factor is for an individual to win or…
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Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Whappen When You Dare to Dream Whitney Johnson Bibliomotion (2012) “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one’s self.” Søren Kierkegaard In The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets…
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