Book Reviews
The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny William Strauss and Neil Howe Broadway Books (1997) “To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:” Ecclesiastes…
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown Publishers (2012) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions Throughout most of her…
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What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Comoetition, and Unstoppable Innovation Gary Hamel Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why knowing and doing what matters NOW will create an organization “fit for the future…
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All For One: 10 Strategies for Building Trusted Client Partnerships Andrew Sobel John Wiley & Sons (2009) “Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno” Those who have read the novel, Three Musketeers, already know that its author, Alexander Dumas pere, took…
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Jumping the S-Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There Paul Nunes and Tim Breene Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How companies can reach progressively high levels of achievement The title of this book refers…
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Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas Kurt Hanks and Larry Belliston Course Technology/CENGAGE Learning (2006) The power and value of highly-developed visualization The title’s meaning is self-evident but the potential value of what can be…
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Business at the Speed of Now: Fire Up Your People, Thrill your Customers, and Crush Your Competition John M. Bernard John Wiley & Sons (2012) Principles and practices to ensure that organizations move faster as well as be more productive…
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Human Competence: Engineering Worthy Performance Thomas F. Gilbert Crown Business (2007) How and why the behavior engineering model “is really an outline of a performance troubleshooting sequence” Note: The comments that follow discuss the “Tribute Edition” (2007) of a book…
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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of…
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