Book Reviews
All You Have to Do Is Ask: How to Master the Most Important Skill for Success Wayne Baker Currency/Random House (January 2020) Tools for being more successful at whatever you do. “Then anything is possible — even miracles” So, what…
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Decisions: Practical Advice from 23 Men and Women Who Shaped the World Robert L. Dilenschneider Citadel Press (December 2019) Why the most difficult decisions tend to have the greatest significance I agree with Robert Dilenschneider that valuable lessons about the…
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Work Tribes: The Surprising Secret to Breakthrough Performance, Astonishing Results, and Keeping Teams Together Shawn Murphy HarperCollins Leadership (August 2019) How and why our “human needs can transform the way we work and how we lead people” As I worked…
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Designing Experiences Robert Rossman and Mathew D. Duerden Columbia Business School Publishing (July 2019) The secret sauce of high-impact experience design and redesign I agree with Bob Rossman and Matt Duerden that “understanding the social and psychological phenomena that facilitate…
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HBR Press offers a series of anthologies (fourteen volumes thus far) of articles in which contributors share proven research that explains how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on…
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Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History Lewis Dartnell Basic Books (May 2019) A thorough examination of the planetary processes that drove the evolution of humanity The best works of non-fiction tend to be driven by research in order to…
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Need a briefing on the basics of delegating work effectively? Look no further. Delegating Work is one of the volumes in the 20 Minute Manager series created by the editors at Harvard Business Review Press. About 90 pages in length,…
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Startup Culture Mindset: A Primer to Building an Amazing Culture and Tribe Bernhard Schroeder Independently Published (November 2019) “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Peter Drucker Drucker’s comment is generally true but I think he would agree that some cultures are…
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The Amazon Management System: The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders Ram Charan and Julia Yang Ideapress Publishing (December 2019) The “sercret sauce” of one of the most successful organizations thoughout the history…
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The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation David Robertson with Kent Lineback Harvard Business Review Press (May 2017) Do innovators have only two choices: innovate small incrementally or innovate big disruptively? “There is another option.” In…
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