Book Reviews
The Branded Mind: What Neuroscience Really Tells Us about the Puzzle of the Brain and the Brand Erik du Plessis , with Nigel Hollis and Graham Page Kogan Page (2011) A travel guide and operations manual for exploration and management…
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The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change Jason Jennings Portfolio/The Penguin Grtoup (2012) Jennings’ latest book is also his best…thus far, 10 May 2012 In fact, companies do not “pursue radical continuous change,” extraordinary executives do. As Jason…
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Breakthrough Problem Solving with Action Learning: Concepts and Cases Michael J. Marquardt and Roland K. Yeo Stanford Business Books/Imprint of Stanford University Press (2012) How and why action learning “is truly the most powerful problem-solving tool of the 21st century” Those who have read any of…
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Vijay (“VG”) Govindarajan for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * …
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The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God David J. Linden The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2007) A lively explanation of the beneficial neural functions in that “cobbled-together mess” between our ears The mind is what the brain…
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TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest Moments Douglas Conant and Mette Norgaard Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) How to prepare for and then embrace the privilege of being of meaningful service to others This volume endorses the principles of servant…
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The Ikea Edge: Building Global Growth and Social Good at the World’s Most Iconic Home Store Anders Dahlvig McGraw-Hill (2012) Outstanding corporate citizenship and outstanding financial performance are NOT mutually-exclusive What’s in a name? If the name is Ikea, it tells you who founded the company…
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100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them Emily Ross and Angus Holland Sourcebooks (2005) Note: I recently re-read this book and found the information and insights more valuable now than they were when I first read it seven years…
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Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time Daniel Gross John Wiley & Sons (1997) Note: This was among the first books I reviewed for Amazon (in 2000) and I recently re-read it while doing some research on several of the…
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