Book Reviews
Leading with Heart: Five Conversations That Unlock Creativity, Purpose, and Results John Baird and Edward Sullivan HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2022) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt John Baird and…
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The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba St. Martin’s Press (June 2022) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right. “ Henry Ford The title and…
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Those who follow my work already know that I highly admire Michael Lee Stallard and his contributions to knowledge leadership. Here is another of his brilliant articles in which he shares his insights — and recommendations — with regard to…
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Stage (Not Age): How to Understand and Serve People Over 60–the Fastest Growing, Most Dynamic Market in the World Susan Wilner Golden Harvard Business Review Press (June 2022) How to take full advantage of a “$22 trillion opportunity” According to…
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The Growth Advantage: A Business Blueprint for the Ultimate Competitive Advantage Bob Lisser Rowan & Littlefield (May 2022) Here’s the basic blueprint from an architect of organizational competitive advantages “To develop a Strategy Advantage, you need to maximize the following…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance Various Contributors and HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle’s insight refers to organizations as well…
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The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe After Napoleon Glenda Sluga Princeton University Press (December 2021) “The Concert of Europe”…who knew? Here’s how Glenda Sluga sets her table: “The intention of this book is to return to the early nineteenth…
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Move to the Edge, Declare It Center: Practices and Processes for Creatively Solving Complex Problems Everett Harper Wiley (March 2022) How to make better decisions (answering questions and solving problems) in a VUCA business world Occasionally, I read more than…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2019) Begin at the end: First determine WHAT and WHY, then WHO and HOW. After centuries of war between…
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A History of Ambiguity Anthony Ossa-Richardson Princeton University Press (2019) Ambiguity: “the subjective state of doubt as well as its objective correlative in the world” In his instructive Introduction, Anthony Ossa-Richardson shares his thoughts about what he characterizes as the…
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