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The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs & Boost Profits Zeynep Ton New Harvest/Amazon Publishing and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) The best strategy to achieve business success? It’s really so simple…and, yes, so…
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The Wisdom of Titans: Secrets of Success from Entrepreneurs Who Rose to the Top William Ferguson bibliomotion books + media (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison According to William Ferguson, “After interviewing the eleven titans for this book,…
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The Art of Business: In the Footsteps of Giants Raymond T. Yeh with Stephanie H. Yeh Zero Time Publishing (2014) Note: Occasionally I re-read a book published years ago simply for the pleasure of spending time again with a dear…
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The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power Bill Schley John Wiley & Sons (2013) “We take good care of our people, they take good care of our customers, and our customers take good care of our shareholders.” Former chairman and CEO…
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World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It John A. Byrne Portfolio/Penguin Group (2011) Exemplars of an opportunistic mindset and acceptance of risk and potential failure, as well as independence and control John A. Byrne is chairman…
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The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results Calhoun W. Wick, Roy V. H. Pollock, Andy Jefferson, and Richard Flanagan Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2003) Note: This is an excellent example of a book…
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X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman Harvard Business School Press (2007) A new teamwork model that combines an internal focus with an external approach Here is a review I posted five…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. Photography: Nash…
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Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits, and Growth Brian Carney and Isaac Getz Crown Business (2009) Note: I read this book when it was first published several years ago and recently…
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Pat Lencioni’s Latest Point of View: The Lost Art of Simplicity
Here is a brief excerpt from Pat Lencioni‘s latest Point of View. To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. * * * This is going to be a difficult POV to write, because making…
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