Book Reviews
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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The Genius Checklist: Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You can Become a Creative Genius Dean Keith Simonton MIT Press (October 2018) How to co-create “a cultural florescence most worthy of posterity’s admiration” What seems to be Dean Keith Simonton’s working…
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Need a briefing on the basics of running a meeting effectively? Look no further. Running Meetings is one of the volumes in the 20 Minute Manager series created by the editors at Harvard Business Review Press. About 90 pages in…
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Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David Robertson Harvard Business Review Press (2006) Still the definitive source for cutting-edge thinking about the design of organizational excellence Here is another business…
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