Book Reviews
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman Broadway Books (2008) The Brothers Brafman seem to have an insatiable curiosity about what may, at first, seem to be aberrational human behavior but is in fact commonplace.…
Read More
Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success Dean R. Spitzer AMACOM (2007) How to measure only what really what matters…and do it right In this remarkable volume, Dean Spitzer urges his reader to re-think how…
Read More
Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery Jim Champy and Harry Greenspun FT Press/Pearson (2010) A brilliant analysis of a “new paradigm” of networked health care It is difficult for me to believe that almost two…
Read More
Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance Larry Downes and Chunka Mui Harvard Business Press (1998) In this book, Downes and Mui provide a brilliant analysis of how “a new good or service that establishes an entirely new…
Read More
The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces That Givern Life and Business in the Digital Age Larry Downes Basic Books (2009) In The Laws of Disruption, Downes asserts that there are three laws of digital life. Together, they comprise…
Read More
The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval Crown Business (2006) How to strengthen your “niceness muscles” Frankly, I think it would be ludicrous for anyone to need to read…
Read More
The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval Broadway Business (2009) The great value of Thaler and Koval’s book is derived from their pragmatic approach to all manner of situations…
Read More
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton Harvard Business School Press (2000) How wide is yours? With few exceptions, the most valuable business books are those in which their authors share…
Read More
Power: Why Some People Have It – and Others Don’t Jeffrey Pfeffer Harper Business (2010) Although Pfeffer does not invoke the core metaphor from Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” in The Republic, I think it is especially relevant to the…
Read More
Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results Morten T. Hansen Harvard Business School Press (2009) Hansen provides a brilliant explanation of how “disciplined collaboration” can help to enable leaders to avoid or free themselves from…
Read More