Book Reviews
How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett: Lessons from the World’s Greatest Dealmaker Tom Searcy and Henry DeVries McGraw-Hill (2013) Anyone can try but only Warren Buffett can close a deal like Warren Buffett As the title of this…
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The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field Mike Michalowicz Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) How to “build a business that blows the competition away…and finally gives you the life of your dreams” Mike Michalowicz makes…
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HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations Nancy Duarte Harvard Business Review Press (2012) “Golden Rule: Never deliver a presentation you wouldn’t want to sit through.” Motto at Duarte, Inc. This is one of the first volumes in a new series of…
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Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits, and Growth Brian Carney and Isaac Getz Crown Business (2009) Note: I read this book when it was first published several years ago and recently…
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The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing Michael Mauboussin Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to “untangle” skill and luck to improve at “the art of good guesswork” when making decisions I have…
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win Steven Gary Blank Quad/Graphics (Third Edition, 2007) Here is “a radical reexamination of the entire new product introduction process”…and almost everything that precedes it Note: The review that…
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Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business Michael Hugos O’Reilly Media (2012) How games can help business leaders to respond more effectively to crises as well as to opportunities Games may well be the first non-violent activity…
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The Leader’s Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation John Baldoni AMACOM (2012) Valuable reminders for effective leadership at all levels and in all areas of the given enterprise Those who have read one or more of John Balboni’s previous…
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The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation John C. Bogle John Wiley & Sons (2012) How a culture of short-term speculation now dominates a traditional culture of long-term investment…and why that must end The “clash” to which the title…
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Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics James Taylor IBM Press/Pearson 2012 How business principles and predictive analytics can help to prepare leaders and their organizations for almost any contingency Opinions are divided, sometimes…
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