Book Reviews
The Social Organization: How to Use Social Media to Tap the Collective Genius of Your Customers and Employees Anthony J. Bradley and Mark P. McDonald Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why organizational success with social media “is fundamentally a leadership…
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The Language of Leaders: How Top CEO’s Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results Kevin Murray Kogan-Page (2012) How and why your values-driven behavior speaks much louder than anything you say, however eloquently Kevin Murray shares what he learned during his…
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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average Joseph T. Hallinan Broadway Books, Reprint edition (2010) And why we often make mistakes when trying to…
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How Women Mean Business: A Step by Step Guide to Profiting from Gender Balanced Business Avivah Wittenberg-Cox John Wiley & Sons (2010) How and why appropriate gender balance is an immensely promising business opportunity This is one of two books written…
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Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All Bernard T. Ferrari Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) How and why the difference between great and mediocre managers is the ability to listen In Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World…
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Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success On the Far Side of Failure Paul J.F. Schoemaker Wharton Digital Press (2012) How and why mistakes “enlarge our range of experience, shrink our ego, and thereby increase the chance of discovery.” The title of this…
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All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton Free Press (2012) How and why “it’s culture that will differentiate your organization and drive real business results”…for better or worse Those who have read any of…
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Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011) Why I think this is one of the most important books published during the past decade Given the number and quality of the reviews of this book that have…
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Creative Thinkerin: Putting Your Imagination to Work Michael Michalko New World Library (2011) How and why conceptual blending of dissimilar subjects, ideas, and concepts is the most important factor in creative thinking Those who have read any of Michael Michalko’s previously…
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The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism Olivia Fox Cabane Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2012) Here is a generous provision of “practical, immediately applicable tools with measurable results” Whatever you call it (some call it…
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