Book Reviews
Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business Thor Muller and Lane Becker Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why to cultivate conditions and develop skills for chance encounters that offer new business opportunities…
Read More
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and in Business Charles Duhigg Random House (2012) A rock-solid framework for “understanding how habits work and a guide for experimenting with how they might change” This is…
Read More
The Winner’s Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske with Liz Neporent DeCapo Press/Perseus Books Group (2011) How and why your brain can help you to become the best person you can be…
Read More
Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to take full and systematic advantage of technology and analytics to create deeper…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More