Book Reviews
Cirque du Soleil: The Spark – Igniting the Creative Fire that Lives within Us All Created by Lyn Heward and written by John U. Bacon Doubleday (2006) “From a tiny spark a great fire was kindled and its flames warmed…
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Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition Adrian J. Slywotsky Harvard Business Press (1995) Note: I recently re-read this book before beginning to formulate questions for an interview of Skywotsky. With all due respect to current…
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The Thank You Economy Gary Vaynerchuk HarperBusiness (2011) Business begins with making people feel appreciated…and goes nowhere unless they do In recent years, an avalanche of research data generated from marketplaces throughout the world reveals that when asked to identify…
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The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life John Maeda The MIT Press (2006) Getting to “the other side of complexity Almost immediately after I began to read this book, I was reminded of two quotations, the first from Oliver…
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Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL Roger L. Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Why and how the core of business and capitalism must be restored Many years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes is…
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon Rodale (2011) “Starbucks’ touchstones, the source of our pride” Howard Schultz In January 2008, chairman Howard Schultz resumed his roles as President and CEO…
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Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler BusinessPlus/Hatchette Book Gtoup (2011) The co-authors (Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler) have probably been collaborating…
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Here is one of several annual lists featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In this instance, Krisztina “Z” Holly‘s selections and discussion of Best Business Books 2010: Innovation. Steven Johnson Where Good Ideas Come From: The…
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Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have Justin Menkes HarperBusiness (2005) A rigorous and eloquent examination of “the single biggest driver of executive performance” There are significant differences between information and knowledge. The former consists of raw data; the latter…
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ROAR! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle Kevin Daum with Daniel A. Turner John Wiley & Sons (2010) How to “break through all that noise and visual stimulation to get to the core of the customer” What we…
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