Simon & Schuster
The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business Duff McDonald Simon & Schuster (2013) A remarkably circumspect examination of “the best finishing school in business” After briefly but sufficiently reviewing the historical background to the…
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Doris Kearns Goodwin‘s latest of several brilliant biographies, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, was recently published by Simon & Schuster. Here is a brief excerpt of an interview of her by…
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Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play Marc Ostrofsky Simon & Schuster (2013) “The new rule in business: Money doesn’t grow on trees; it grows in databases!” The title of my review…
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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way Amanda Ripley Simon & Schuster (2013) Valuable lessons to be learned from how school children are educated in Finland, South Korea, and Poland Amanda Ripley shares what she…
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When someone is referred to as the “Apostle of Appreciation,” it’s hard not to think that they might be passionate about employee engagement and culture. The Inc. Small Giants Community’s Executive Director, Raul Candeloro, sat down with Chester Elton, author…
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What leads products, ideas, and behaviors to catch on and become popular? Jonah Berger studies how word of mouth and social influence drive social epidemics and trends. He is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School at the…
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Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why innovation happens “better and quicker when you work inside the box” Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg must…
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Contagious: Why Things Catch On Jonah Berger Simon & Schuster (2013) “What causes certain products, ideas, and behaviors to be talked about more?” That’s what this book is all about…and much more. According to Berger, “The first issue with all…
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe Mario Livio Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why the blunders described in this book “have all, some way…
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The $4 Million Teacher
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Amanda Ripley for The Wall Street Journal. South Korea’s students rank among the best in the world, and its top teachers can make a fortune. Can the U.S. learn from…
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