Book Reviews
Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions Into Great Performance Rodger Dean Duncan Maxwell Stone Publishing (2012) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Frankly, I did not know quite what to expect as I began to read this book.…
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Managing Henry Mintzberg Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2009) A brilliant explanation of “the practice of management”Whenever I ask someone, “What does a manager manage that is most important?”, some respond people, others work to be done, and still others resources. Thus far,…
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Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image Toby Lester Free Press/Simon & Schuster Imprint (2012) Why has no one else ever tried to tell the story of the Vitruvian Man…until now? I…
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Harvard Business Review on Advancing Your Career Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) “Companies own the jobs but people own their careers.” Earl Nightingale This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business…
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Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire Paul Smith AMACOM (2012) “Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.” This book is among the best that discuss one or more…
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Street Smart Disciplines of Successful People: 7 Indispensable Disciplines for Breakout Business Success John A. Kuhn and Mark K. Mullins CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2012) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein Einstein’s admonition stresses the…
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The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin FT Press/Pearson (2011) How and why global networks of highly specialized expertise create value in the challenge driven enterprise In Open Business Models (2003),…
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Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative Ken Robinson Capstone Publishing Ltd. (2011) How and why to think differently about learning to be creative This is a “New Edition, Fully Updated” of a book first published in 2001. Why…
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So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love Cal Newport Business Plus (2012)How and why “the craftsman mindset is the foundation for creating work you love” Curious, I checked on the…
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Lead By Greatness: How Character Can Power Your Success David Lapin Avoda Books (2012) “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Greatness” is one of the terms that have become essentially useless because their meaning…
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