Portfolio/Penguin
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success Ken Segall Portfolio/Penguin (2012) “I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity.” Oliver Wendell Holmes As Hannibal Lector explains to Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, the Roman emperor…
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The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Befire Everyone Else George Anders Portfolio/Penguin (2011) How and why great talent “isn’t hard to find if you know how [and where] to look” As George Anders explains in the Introduction, he spent two…
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures Dan Roam Portfolio/Penguin (2009) I read the original (published in 2008) and then this second edition with increasing admiration. As I began to work my way through Dan…
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Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures Dan Roam Portfolio/Penguin (2009) In this sequel to his previous Napkin book, Dan Roam reaffirms many of the same core values and principles while developing them…
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The Wisdom of Bees: What the Hive Can Teach Business About Leadership, Efficiency, and Growth Michael O’Malley Portfolio/Penguin (2010) “What they have done has worked for them”…and can work for us as well. I read this book when it was…
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Harvard Business Review on Finding & Keeping the Best People Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to recruit, hire, onboard, and retain the workers who possess the character, talent, and skills your company needs This is one of…
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Harvard Business Review on Finding & Keeping the Best Prople Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to recruit, hire, onboard, and retain the workers who possess the character, talent, and skills your company needs This is one of…
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As One: Individual Action and Collective Power Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley Portfolio/Penguin (2011) How and why “As One behavior” can accomplish almost anything There is so much to be said about what this book offers. Where to begin? Perhaps…
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Brandt is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about science and technology for 25 years. He was a correspondent for BusinessWeek magazine for 14 years and editor-in-chief at Upside magazine for five years. He writes about entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley,…
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Less Is More: How Great Companies Use Productivity Jason Jennings Portfolio/Penguin (2002) This is the second of two books by Jennings that I have recently read, the other being It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small…It’s the Fast That…
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