Book Reviews
Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (March 2020) How and why “putting gratitude at the center of everything you do is the key to a happy life”…
Read MoreCharismatic Leadership: The Skills You Can Learn to Motivate High Performance in Others Kevin Murray KoganPage (February 2020) Charisma without integrity and substance attracts attention and then contempt Originally, charisma was believed to be a divine gift that only a…
Read MoreMark Twain’s America Then and Now Laura DeMarco Pavilion (October 2019) You are invited to take a magic carpet ride with Samuel Clemens I became a book lover at a very early age when my mother read stories to me.…
Read MoreHBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (February 2020) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide to” series are anthologies of articles…
Read MoreThe Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey Into the Business of Shared Leadership Kevin Hancock Post Hill Press (February 2020) “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead With all due respect to C-level executives, every…
Read MoreBeyond Good and Evil: The Philosophy Classic Friedrich Nietzsche Introduction by Christopher Janaway; Edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone, A Wiley Brand (February 2020) “What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.” Friedrich Nietzsche As do…
Read MoreEat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Job Bruce Daisley HarperOne/An imprint of HarperCollins (February 2020) How to stimulate creativity, energy, and success throughout your workplace culture Teresa Amabile and Steve Jobs are among those who…
Read MoreUpstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen Dan Heath Avid Reader Press/An imprint of Simon & Schuster (March 2020) Never more true than it is today: “A stitch in time….” I have read and reviewed four bestsellers co-authored…
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