Book Reviews
Reinventing the Wheel: The Science of Creating Lifetime Customers Chris Zane BenBella Books (2011) How to establish and then sustain long-term (if not lifetime) customer relationships What we have in this book is a personal account by the founder and…
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Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage Scott Keller and Colin Price John Wiley & Sons (2011) How to achieve and then sustain both outstanding leadership and management throughout the given enterprise Scott Keller and Colin Price acknowledge…
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The Toyota Way Jeffrey Liker McGraw-Hill (2003) To understand Toyota’s success, first understand its DNA I read this book when it was first published in 2004 and recently re-read it, curious to know how well Jeffrey Liker’s explanation of Toyota’s…
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The Story of American Business: From the Pages of the New York Times Nancy F. Koehn, Editor Harvard Business Press (2009) The Who, What, When, How, and Why of U.S. Free Enterprise Credit Nancy Koehn with skillfully selecting, organizing, and…
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The Innovator’s Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth Michael E. Raynor Crown Business (2011) How and why disruption “provides an explanation of creative creation” Frankly, I was unable to fully understand (much less appreciate) the significance of what Joseph A.…
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The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women: A Portable Life Coach for Creative Women Gail McMeekin Conari Press (2011) How to discover your unique gifts, claim your personal power, and help others to do so Gail McMeekin devotes a separate…
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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard Rumelt Crown Business (2011) How and why a good strategy “acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcome them As the title of this review correctly indicates,…
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Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit James M. Strock Three Rivers Press (2001) “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt I selected the quotation for the title of my review…
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Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages Alex Wright Cornell University Press ((2007) How and why “the torch song of technological transcendentalism has passed from the visionary fringe into cultural mainstream” Alex Wright explains that in this volume, he approaches the…
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50 Prosperity Classics: Attract It, Create It, Manage It, Share It Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2008) Henry Ford was right Note: This is one of the volumes in the 5o Classics series, each available in a softbound edition and…
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