Book Reviews
HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Managing People (Vol. 2) Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (March 2010) “If you put fences around people, you get sheep. GIve people the room they need.” William L. McKnight I selected a Dale Carnegie…
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We’re All In This Together: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging Mike Robbins Hay House Business (April 2020) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb…
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Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking into Breakthrough Growth Mark W. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz Harvard Business Review Press (April 2010) “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard After several…
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Robbie Kellman Baxter is a bestselling author of The Forever Transaction and The Membership Economy, named a top 10 marketing book of all time by BookAuthority. Sheis a speaker, and consultant with more than twenty years of experience providing strategic…
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Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever Alex Kantrowitz Portfolio/Penguin (April 2020) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith Goldsmith correctly suggests that whatever enabled a company to enjoy success today…
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The Forever Transaction: How to Build a Subscription Model So Compelling, Your Customers Will Never Want to Leave Robbie Kellman Baxter McGraw Hill (2020) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”…
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Conversational Intelligence Judith E. Glaser Bibliomotion/Taylor & Wilson Group (2014) What we understand is far greater than what either of us understands. Proceed accordingly. Most experts on communication would probably not rank conversational intelligence as having importance equal to that…
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Influencers and Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Business Sean Pillot de Chenecey KoganPage (February 2020) How relevance, personalization, and sustainability are the keys to high-impact innovation According to Sean Pillot de Chenecey, there is a “simple…
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The Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking Jeremy Gutsche Fast Company Press (March 2020) “Ready to discover your big idea?” Here’s how to do that. This volume serves as Part 2 of Jeremy Gutsche’s “Create the Future” project as well…
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Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders Alain Hunkins Wiley (March 2020) “Your title identies you as a manager; your people make you a leader.” Donna Dubinsky Although Amazon now offers more than 100,000 books on leadership,…
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