Book Reviews
The Game of Life and How to Play It and The Secret Door to Success Florence Scovel Shinn, with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone/A Wiley Brand (XXXX 2020) “The game of life is about giving and receiving,” for better…
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Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Tim Brown Harvard Business Review Press (2019) Even the best books about change also need to be revised and updated, and by design In A Fiery…
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Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Harvard Business Review Press (June 2020) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt Robert K. Greenleaf…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Leadership (Vol.2) Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (March 2020) “Your title makes you a manager; your people make you a leader.” Donna Dubinsky That is what Dubinsky said to her friend and colleague at…
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The Interpretation of Dreams: The Psychology Classic Sigmund Freud with an Introduction by Sarah Tomley Tom Butler-Bowdon, Series Editor Capstone/A Wiley Brand (May 2020) How to undertake “a high-risk adventure of self-revelation” to understand dreams Over the last 25-30 years,…
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The CEO’s Time Machine Geoff Thatcher with Zoe Thatcher (Illustrator) Casa Flamingo Literary Arts (April 2020) A garage unlike any other Here’s the basic situation. The COO of “the world’s fastest growing and most innovative company is about to become…
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Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos Darrell K. Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steven H. Berez Harvard Business Review Press (May 2020) “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.” Mohandas Gandhi Gandhi achieved change of…
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Leadership in Turbulent Times Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon & Schuster (2018) Profiles of great leadership “not in turbulent times alone, but also in our everyday lives” I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it after…
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The Prophet: A Spiritual Classic Kahlil Gibran with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone/A Wiley Brand (May 2020) A “classic” at least in durable popularity, if not in timeless wisdom The man we know as Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was born…
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Startup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School Rizwan Virk Columbia Business School Publishing (June 2010) Here’s a GPS for “Startup Land” At the moment, no one is learning anything in business schools. However, when classes resume,…
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