Book Reviews
DRiVE: 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…
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Faster 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…
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SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good Rosabeth Moss Kanter Crown Business (2009) A brilliant analysis of companies at the forefront of social purpose and profitable enterprise In recent years, Rosabeth Moss Kanter has written several…
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Confidence: 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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Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy Martin Lindstrom Crown Business (2008) Preliminary Conclusions About Neuromarketing As Martin Lindstrom explains in the Introduction, he set out to understand “what’s going on in our brains that makes us chose one…
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In Brand Sense: Sensory Secrets Behind the Stuff We Buy, Martin Lindstrom notes that “the effects of sensory branding are astounding. Yes, it’s possible to create a truly spectacular commercial or an advertising jingle you can’t get out of your…
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The Right Fight: How Great Leaders Use Healthy Conflict to Drive Performance, Innovation, and Value Saj-nicole Joni and Damon Beyer HarperBusiness (2010) As I read the Introduction to this book, I was reminded of two observations by Peter Drucker and…
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Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science Charles S. Jacobs Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2009) In recent years, a number of books have discussed recent research in neurological science and its relevance to…
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Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders Alan Deutschman Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2009) Deutschman’s objective was to write what turns out to be an especially entertaining and engaging as well as informative analysis of “real” leadership, what Bill…
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Change or Die: The Three Keys To Change At Work and In Life Alan Deutschman Harper Paperbacks (2007 Deutschman asserts that both individuals and organizations are involved in a process of natural selection and will survive the competition only of…
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