Book Reviews
The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative (Second Edition) Stephen Denning Jossey-Bass (2011) Certain to Become a “Business Classic” Those who have read Denning’s The Springboard and/or Squirrel Inc. already know that he specializes…
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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book Carol J. Loomis Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett At last…
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Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey Harvard Business School Press (2009) An adaptive approach to sustainable improvement of personal and organizational performance There are…
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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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