Book Reviews
The Optimization Edge: Reinventing Decision Making to Maximize All Your Company’s Assets Steve Sashihara McGraw-Hill (2011) How to make complex decisions and recommendations about the best way to deploy assets In a book I very much admire, Judgment: How Winning…
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The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives Frank Moss Crown Business (2011) How and why “individuals empowered with radically new technologies…can succeed in…
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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Peter Drucker HarperBusiness/A HarperCollins Imprint (2006) “The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.” Note: The title of this review is a portion of one of Peter…
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Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World’s Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Talent Marshall Goldsmith and Louis Carter, Co-Editors Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2009) Ultimately, the effectiveness of best practices depends on those who execute them As co-editors Marshall…
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Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game John Feinstein and Arnold (“Red”) Auerbach Back Bay Books (2005) Emperor of the Celtic Dynasty This is one of two best sports biographies that I have read in recent…
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From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr. Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) How and why leadership is about the growth and positive change that almost anyone can bring about while working with others…
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The Truth About Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner Jossey-Bass (2010) What Kouzes and Posner learned about what leadership is and does after three decades of rigorous study I have…
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Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown & Company (2008) In my opinion, this is Gladwell’s most significant and most valuable book thus far. In it, he demonstrates superior storyteller skills as he discusses several quite different situations…
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Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else Geoff Colvin The Penguin Group (2008) Colvin set out to answer this question: “What does great performance require?” In this volume, he shares several insights generated by hundreds of…
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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2009) The power and privilege of leadership as service to those entrusted to one’s care In this second edition of a book first published in…
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