Book Reviews
THRIVE: The Leader’s Guide to Building a High-Performance Culture Andrew Freedman with Paul Elliott Lioncrest Publishing (January 2021) How and why strategic initiatives achieve breakthrough, high-impact results First, I want to commend Andrew Freedman who — with substantial assistance from…
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Present Company: Cultivating Cultures of High Performance in Teams and Organizations Timothy Dukes and Michael Landers Conscious Capitalism Press (January 2021) “We convince by our presence…for better or worse.” Walt Whitman As I began to read this book, I was…
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Stop Decorating the Fish: Which solutions to ignore and which problems really matter, Second Edition Kristen Cox and Yishai Ashlag The North River Press Publishing Corporation (January 2021) How and why to focus on solving core problems while you can…
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The Vision Code: How to Create and Execute a Compelling Vision for Your Business Oleg Konovalov Wiley (January 2021) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Even if a company retained Oleg Konovalov to help its C-level executives to formulate…
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Stop Decorating the Fish: Which solutions to ignore and which problems really matter Kristen Cox and Yishai Ashlag The North River Press Publishing Company (December 2020) How and why to focus on solving core problems…while you can This book has…
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Digital Business Transformation: How Established Companies Sustain Competitive Advantage From Now to Next Nigel Vaz Wiley (January 2021) How companies thrive by defending, differentiating, or disrupting themselves and their markets Drawing upon wide and deep experience with all manner of…
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Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2021) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison There are 5.5 million family-owned businesses in…
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Here is an excerpt from an especially important article written by Tina Jordan, Noor Qasim, and John Williams that appeared in The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please…
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The Live Enterprise: Creating a Continuously Evolving and Learning Organization Jeff Kavanaugh and Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar McGraw-Hill (January 2021) How resilience and regeneration enable companies to adapt and evolve Note the gerund “creating” in this book’s subtitle. It correctly suggests…
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The Business of We: The Proven Three-Step Process for Closing the Gap Between Us and Them in Your Workplace Laura Kriska HarperCollins Leadership (January 2021) How and why all healthy organizations think and behave in terms of first-person PLURAL pronouns…
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