Book Reviews
The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs Cynthia A. Montgomery HarperBusiness (2012) How and why to become a strategist “whose time at the helm could have a profound effect on the fortunes of your organization” Most of what I…
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Be•Know•Do: Leadership the Army Way: Adapted from the Official Army Leadership Manual Frances Hesselbein and Eric K. Shinseki (USA Ret.) Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader Institute, 1st Edition (2004) How to develop leaders who have character, competence, knowledge, and results-driven initiative I…
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Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Amy C. Edmondson Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) Why and how the most valuable organizational learning occurs: through teams Amy Edmondson characterizes “teaming” as “teamwork on the fly.” It could also be termed “informal collaboration on steroids.” Whatever,…
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The Winning Factor: Secrets from a Veteran Olympic and Corporate Coach Peter Jensen AMACOM (2012) How and why a “development bias” can help you to become very best you can be Opinions vary as to what the decisive factor is for an individual to win or…
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Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Whappen When You Dare to Dream Whitney Johnson Bibliomotion (2012) “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one’s self.” Søren Kierkegaard In The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets…
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The Branded Mind: What Neuroscience Really Tells Us about the Puzzle of the Brain and the Brand Erik du Plessis , with Nigel Hollis and Graham Page Kogan Page (2011) A travel guide and operations manual for exploration and management…
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The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change Jason Jennings Portfolio/The Penguin Grtoup (2012) Jennings’ latest book is also his best…thus far, 10 May 2012 In fact, companies do not “pursue radical continuous change,” extraordinary executives do. As Jason…
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Breakthrough Problem Solving with Action Learning: Concepts and Cases Michael J. Marquardt and Roland K. Yeo Stanford Business Books/Imprint of Stanford University Press (2012) How and why action learning “is truly the most powerful problem-solving tool of the 21st century” Those who have read any of…
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The…
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