Book Reviews
The Complete Executive: The 10-Step System to Powering Up Peak Performance Karen Wright Bibliomotion (2012) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle The last time I checked, Amazon offers 5,515 titles…
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Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why “the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” in…
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HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP: Implementing Organizational Change Successfully: Five Powerful Strategies to Seduce and Influence Stakeholders, Sell Your Ideas, and Boost Your Career Leon M. Hielkema LMHCpub.com (2012) Here are several new insights on how to implement successfully major…
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A History of the Internet and the Digital Future Johnny Ryan Reaktion Books Ltd (2010) How and why the Internet is “a centrifugal force, user-driven, and open” I read this book when it was first published in 2010 and then…
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Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities Around the World Yves Doz and Keeley Wilson Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How to conceive, build, and hone a global innovation capability “that is enduring, practical, and rooted in realities” The title…
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Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition (Second Edition) Dennis N. T. Perkins with Margaret P. Holtman and Jillian Murphy AMACOM (2000) Great Leadersip Under Duress I read this book and then published a review…
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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed Ray Kurzweil Viking/The Penguin Group (2012) How and why the patterns theory of mind can help to reveal “the secret of human thought” The title of my review is…
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The Yale Book of Quotations Fred R. Shapiro, Editor Yale University Press (2006) A treasury of “highly quotatious” insights During the past 25-30 years, I have purchased and then made frequent use of dozens of anthologies of quotations (including revised…
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The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition Caroline Alexander Alfred A. Knopf (1999) Not Only to Endure But to Prevail I read this book when it was first published and then published a review about it in 2000 after I had…
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The Talent Wave: Why Succession Planning Fails and What to Do About It David Clutterbuck KoganPage (2012) How and why alternative approaches to succession planning and talent management may well be much more effective In a remarkably informative Introduction, David…
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