Book Reviews
Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees Doug Lipp McGraw-Hill (2013) There are valuable business lessons to be learned from “the human architect” of Disney’s magic kingdoms I reviewed this book when…
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Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy Michael Beer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2020) How healthy are your organization’s vital signs? Unless there is effective communication between and among…
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The Movie Musical! Jeanine Basinger Alfred A. Knopf (November 2019) The single best source for information and insights, “from then until now” As Jeanine Basinger explains, she wrote this book in order to tell the story of a uniquely entertaining…
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Teaching by Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire Thomas J. DeLong Harvard Business Review Press (January 2020) Challenging others “to be more accepting, more aware, and more committed to be all they can be” My initial career was in education,…
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Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani Harvard Business Review Press (January 2020) The impact of artificial intelligence on businesses: how they will operate and…
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Hardiness: Making Stress Work for You to Achieve Your Life Goals Steven J. Stein and Paul T. Bartone Wiley (January 2020) How to manage pressure rather than be controlled by stress In their Harvard Business Review article, “Pressure Doesn’t Have…
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Go Like Hell A.J. Baime Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2010) For many people, a great read; for motor racing fans, a “must read” Note: I read and reviewed this book when it was first published and recently re-read it before seeing…
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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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