Book Reviews
Boundless Potential: Transform Your Brain, Unleash Your Talents, Reinvent Your Wortk in Midlife and Beyond Mark S. Walton McGraw-Hill (2012) “Potential” means “you ain’t done it yet.” Darrell Royal Few of us of us ever fully develop the potentialities that…
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Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the World Leslie A. Perlow Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to avoid or break free from a cycle that grows (unintentionally) vicious Ignore the title of this…
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How Winning Works: 8 Essential Leadership Lessons from the Toughest Teams on Earth Robyn Benincasa Harlequin Press (2012) “To strive, to seek, to find…and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses Not everyone agrees with Robyn Benincasa about which are the “toughest teams…
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The Prince: The Original Classic Niccolò Machiavelli, with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone Publishing Ltd. (2010) How and why a leader needs to be both “a fox to discern snares, and a lion to drive off wolves” Those who have read one or more…
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The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results Chris Grivas and Gerard J. Puccio Jossey-Bass /A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why an innovative team can leverage its organization’s creative resources to achieve and sustain breakthrough results By nature, an innovative team is one…
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Oracles: How Prediction Markets Turn Employees into Visionaries Donald N. Thompson Harvard Business Review Press (2012) Why and how “prediction market democracy” tends to make better decisions that, eventually, produce better results Donald Thompson is an advocate of “prediction market democracy” because a prediction market can “revolutionize the…
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The Transformative CEO: Impact Lessons from Industry Game Changers Jeffrey J. Fox and Robert Reiss McGraw-Hill (2012) How and why leaders transform themselves so that they will be more effective transforming their organizations Each year, the average tenure of a new CEO becomes shorter and…
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Do Nothing! How to Stop Overmanaging and Become a Great Leader J. Keith Murnighan Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2012) How to lead more effectively by doing less and helping others to do more…and do it better The title of this book attracts attention but is misleading.…
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Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic Napoleon Hill, with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone Publishing Ltd. (2009) The “Supreme Secret” of success: “Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve.” Those who have read one…
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Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success Ken Segall Portfolio/Penguin (2012) “I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity.” Oliver Wendell Holmes As Hannibal Lector explains to Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, the Roman emperor…
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