Book Reviews
The Velocity Manifesto: Harnessing Technology, Vision, and Culture to Future-Proof Your Organization Scott Klososky Greenlead Book Group (2011) Digital plumbing + high-beam strategy + high-velocity culture = business success (however defined) Almost immediately, Scott Klososky establishes and then sustains a…
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Competing in a Flat World: Building Enterprises for a Borderless World Victor K. Fung, William K. Fung, and Jerry (Yoram) Wind Pearson/Prentice Hall (2007) This book offers still another example of a book that attracted little attention when published but…
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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done Peter Bregman Business Plus/Hatchette Book Group (2011) Do you need a FIND ME button for your life? Look no further. I have been following Peter Bregman’s HBR…
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The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies, Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd Harper Business/An imprint of HaroerCollins (2010) How and why the HR function has become so much more important than many (most?)…
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The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good Robert H. Frank Princeton University Press (2011) How and why “departures from rational choice” (with and without regret) have occurred and what to do about them Frankly, I expected this book…
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What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential Robert Steven Kaplan Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why framing the right questions can help aspiring leaders to…
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Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Companies Thrive Despite Them All Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011) Additional and even more valuable revelations about “the principles that distinguish great organizations from…
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Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They wWant It Adrian J. Slywotzky with Karl Weber Crown Business (2011) How to create a demand-creating culture Many books published in recent years offer excellent advice on how to create and…
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The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World Walter Kiechel III Harvard Business Press (2010) A unique aristocracy of iconoclasts Kiechel suggests that understanding what he calls the “strategy revolution” requires getting beyond three common…
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Re-Think: A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation Ric Merrifield Financial Times Press/The Pearson Group (2009) If you cannot identify the “what” that is truly valuable, “how” is irrelevant. As I began to read this book, I was…
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