Book Reviews
PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow Chip Conley Jossey-Bass (2007) Note: Today is June 28, 2011. Chip has just announced the debut of www.peakorganizations.com, a site featuring new programs and resources based on his book PEAK: How Great Companies…
Read MoreWhat Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management Jeffrey Pfeffer Harvard Business Press (2007) According to Jeffrey Pfeffer, there seem to be three themes that unify many of the ideas he shares in this volume: “(1) the importance of considering…
Read MoreHard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton Harvard Business Press (2006) In this book, Pfeffer and Sutton examine what they call “the doing-knowing gap”: doing without knowing, or at least…
Read MoreThe Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance (Updated & Revised Edition) Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton Free Press (2009) Note: The review that follows is of the updated edition…
Read MoreThe Orange Revolution: HowOne Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton Free Press/Simon & Schuster (2010) Those who have read any of Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton’s previous collaborations, notably Managing with Carrots: Using Recognition…
Read MoreDRiVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Dan Pink Riverhead Press/Penguin Group (2009) Note: I recently re-read this book and admire it even more now than I did two years ago when it was published. The power of Motivation…
Read MoreFaster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman Crown Business (2010) How to create a more logical and more efficient network of processes for getting work done Michael Hammer’s death…
Read MoreConfidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End Rosabeth Moss Kanter Crown Business (2004) Locating the “stones” under the water This brilliant book’s subtitle is accurate but does not fully indicate the nature and extent of what Kanter…
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