Book Reviews
Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, and Katie Yezzi Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why “practice doesn’t make perfect, practice makes permanent” For several decades, Anders Ericsson and his associates at Florida…
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Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World Tony Wagner Scribner/A Simon & Schuster Imprint (2012) Why and how to nurture the creativity of all children As Tony Wagner explains, “This book is about how we can develop the capacities…
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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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