Book Reviews
HBR’s 10 Must Reads: Essentials Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until 2006.…
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Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination Hugh MacLeod Portfolio/Pednguin Group (2011) “Evil” was the word the Anglo-Saxons used where we would use bad, cruel, unskillful, defective (adj.), or harm, crime, misfortune, and disease. Of course, this…
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School John Medina Pear Press (2008) Note: I read this book as soon as it was published (in 2008) and then reviewed it for Amazon. I recently re-read…
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Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity Hugh MacLeod Portfolio/Penguin (2009) As I began to read this book, I recalled a situation years ago in which a little girl (probably seven or eight years old) announced that her foot…
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Unthinking: The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy Harry Beckwith Business Plus/Hatchette Book Group (2011) In this, his latest of five bestselling books, Harry Beckwith shares a number of especially valuable insights. His objective is to share with his reader…
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Selling to the C-Suite: What Every Executive Wants You to Know About Successfully Selling to the Top Nicholas A.C. Read and Stephen J. Bistritz McGraw-Hill (2010) Although Nicholas A.C. Read and Stephen J. Bistritz claim that the approaches they recommend…
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The Change Leader’s Road Map: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dean Anderson Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2010) I recently read the Second Edition of this book (first published in 2001) and the Second Edition of Beyond…
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Unwritten Rules: What Women Need to Know About Leading in Today’s Organizations Lynn Harris BookSurge Publishing (2010) The question “Where are all the women?” is not being asked by anyone familiar with enrollment statistics for colleges, universities, and graduate schools…
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America Steven Johnson Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (2008) It would be an exaggeration to suggest that Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is the focal point of this book. He…
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