Book Reviews
Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers Fred Reichheld with Darci Darnell and Maureen Burns Harvard Business Review Press (December 2017) Need an unbeatable strategy for success? Enrich the lives of your customers. Years ago, Southwest Airlines’ then…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age HBR Editors and Various Other Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (February 2019) How New Technologies Such as AI Will Transform Most Companies Within the Next Three Years This is…
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Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Gino Wickman Virtual CEO (2011) Without traction, no individual or organization accomplishes anything. The material in this book has even greater value today than it did when first published ten years ago. And…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.” Tim Brown This book is one of the most recent volumes in…
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Leadership Levers: Releasing the Power of Relationships for Exceptional Participation, Alignment, and Team Results Diana Jones Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group (November 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb…
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Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation Linda Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback Harvard Business Review Press (2014) Valuable perspectives on the role of the leader in creating and then sustaining a culture within which…
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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler, and Stephen Friedrich von den Eichen The MIT Press (October 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go…
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The Transformation Myth: Leading Your Organization Through Uncertain Times Gerald C.Kane, Rich Nanda, Ann Nguyen Phillips, and Jonathan R. Copulsky The MIT Press (September 2021) How companies strengthened by disruption use it to achieve high-impact innovations To what does the…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Linus Dahlander, Viktoria Boss, Christoph Ihl, and Rajshri Jayaraman for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription…
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Winning the Right Game: How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World Ron Adner The MIT Press (October 2021) How to understand the implications of change in order to manage the disruption it creates In my opinion, there…
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