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Book Reviews
12 Views From Women's Eyes, Managing the New Majority
This book discusses gender related orientation and focuses on ways to work with the strengths and weaknesses of both gender types. It also stresses the importance of combining the two forces to create a team that is as strong and powerful as it can possibly be.
by Laura Ricci With George Wilkerson
7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis
A very readable book which simply but powerfully sets out the lessons of values-driven leadership in times of crisis (and thus of opportunity!).
by Bill George
Always Remember - If It Aint Fun It Aint Worth Doing
An insightful look into understanding workplace behavior in a very readable book.
by Wayne Kehl
As the Future Catches You
Juan Enriquez counters, in his book As the Future Catches You, that another date when everything changed was February 12, 2001. That was the day that the code of the human genome was published...
by Juan Enriquez
Be Bodacious: Put Life in Your Leadership
We all could use a little more extraordinary, unrestrained, and bold action in our lives! If you like a good story with some great lessons on leadership and managing people, then be a chicken eater, not a chicken catcher.
by Steven Wood
Be the Leader, Make the Difference
Whilst his 3 C's model of Leadership could be seen as "too easy", as you dig into it you find lots of thoughtful, helpful and practical advice.
by Paul B. Thornton
Beyond Booked Solid
There are simple and effective ways to expand your business while maintaining a balance in your personal life.
by Michael Port
Big Vision, Small Business
4 Keys to Success without Growing Big
by Jamie Walters
Book of Five Rings
The Book of Five Rings was the result of Musashi’s lifelong search. It was written in the form of a letter to a pupil; it is his personal Zen "Heiho". It is quite short, gives a lot of personalised advice, and features both tactical and strategic teaching.
by Miyamoto Musashi
Brand America: The Mother of All Brands
A unilateral US action sparks the largest demonstrations in Europe's history. Angry demonstrators carry signs condemning the White House cowboy. Global editorials moan about US abuse of its superpower status.
by Simon Anholt & Jeremy Hildreth
Connected
If our friend's friends are happy, then chances are we are, too. And, if they are obese ...
by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is about getting commitment from as many people as you can, and to connect to people who do not have the "obvious" skills to help you better solve problems and drive innovation.
by Jeff Howe
Emotional Capitalists
Building on Goleman’s EQ framework, Newman identifies seven emotions that set leaders apart, and provides a blue print for systematically building EQ and leadership skills.
by Martyn Newman
Emotional Intelligence
A must read for all HRD practitioners. Goleman asserts through a myriad of tales and research that IQ does not determine success—emotional intelligence does!
by Daniel Goleman
End Your Story, Begin Your Life
By stripping away the "stories" which we all carry, we will be better able to deal with life's challenges.
by Jim Dreaver
Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership
A first-of-a-kind book that forever changes the traditional notions involving women in leadership
by various contributors. Edited by Linda Coughlin, Ellen Wingard and Keith Hollihan
Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image
Science, though, aspires to be objective, so taking photographs in the support of science is a challenge. Felice Frankel is a prominent scientific photographer, whose work regularly appears in journals like Nature, Science, and Journal of Physical Chemistry.
by Felice Frankel
Ethics For A New Millennium
A quick look at an extraordinary man's eclectic world-view of "universal ethical truths".
by The Dalai Lama
Future Shop
How the new auction culture will revolutionize the way we buy, sell and get the things We REALLY want.
by Daniel Nissanoff
Get Out of Your Own Way at Work ... and Help Others Do The Same
Self defeating behaviour can ruin plans to achieve full potential. This books tells you why this behaviour occurs and what we can do to avoid it.
by Mark Goulston
Getting a Grip on Leadership
How to learn leadership without making all the mistakes yourself, now that certainly is a tempting prospect. Can this really be possible?
by Robyn Pearce & LaVonn Steiner
Goal Free Living
How to have the life you want now!
by Stephen Shapiro
Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders
This book sets out to emphasise the importance of communication as a tool of leadership,arguing that the ability to speak is just a small element of the skill of communication.
by John Baldoni
High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success
Leadership is often a risky, lonely role possessing nearly unbearable lows and fleeting highs. Despite this emotionally and intellectually draining roller coaster, a handful of leaders deliver stunning results, with great consistency.
by Chris Warner and Don Schmincke
How to be an Existentialist
We need to become both more tough minded on defining our situation and what to do about it, yet more dignified in our relationships with others. Net, we need to become more Authentic.
by Gary Cox
How We Lead Matters
It is the personal side of this slim volume that stands out to make it eminently readable, as it does much to explain that the "how" of leadership is arguably more important than the "what".
by Marilyn Carlson Nelson
Hug Your People
Mitchell has provided us with yet another book that reminds us not to forget the little things that make such a big difference
by Jack Mitchell
Investigations
"In Investigations Kauffman asks an old question -how did we get here? - in a new way. He aims not only to explain the familiar biosphere...Investigations will introduce any reader to many new facts, but it is the originality of the way Stuart Kauffman sees the world, and the questions he asks, that make it an important book."
by Stuart A. Kauffman
Judgment
Judgment is a contextually-informed decision making encompassing three domains - people, strategy and crisis and woking in three phases.
by Warren Bennis and Noel Tichy
Lead Well and Prosper
A simple to read book with a powerful set of practical advice and examples for managers of all kinds.
by Nick McCormick
Mobilizing Minds
This solidly researched and considered book is a critical contribution to driving essential organisational changes for 21st century business success. The real value and potential of the book, however, will be released by mobilising minds around it, extending the network and perspectives on the issues raised and filling the gaps identified by the authors.
by Lowell L. Bryan & Claudia I. Joyce
Mobs, Messiahs and Markets
An entertaining, well researched book on the origins and impact of bubbles and consequent crises in the economy
by William Bonner & Lila Rajiva
Net Work
If you have never picked up a book on networks, and how they impact everything we (organizationally) do - then pick this one up
by Patti Anklam
New Rules For The New Economy
This book may have been written in the last century (!), but Kevin offers about the best set of wise thoughts on how to win in the 21st. that I have read.
by Kevin Kelly
Open Boundaries
First rate & practical guide to the development of participative, open bounded, knowledge focused & thus innovative organizations.
by Howard Sherman & Ron Shultz
Outsmart!
These "high velocity" businesses were able to take advantage of their circumstances and discover new opportunities for growth that their competitors missed.
by Jim Champy
Profit Brand
How to increase the profitability, accountability and sustainability of your brand.
by Nick Wreden
Ruthless Focus
A core idea is to develop your own sources of information, beyond what you're getting in formal reports. Then trust your gut when it starts sending signals.
by Tom Hall and Wally Bock
Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results
A must have for any leader, Simple Solutions is a book that shows you how to take complex problems and break them down into simple, manageable parts and solve them effectively.
by Tom Schmitt and Arnold Perl
Simply Effective: "How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done"
This is a good, clear and helpful book, and the action plans suggested will definitely start to clear away the organizational clutter that we all face every day
by Ron Ashkenas
Stall Points: Most Companies Stop Growing - Yours Doesn't Have To
A helpful guide to top level executives in any corporation, to assist in monitoring strategic assumptions with an innovative “Red-Flag” system.
by Matthew S. Olson and Derek van Bever
Strategy And The Fat Smoker
Fresh insights into why many firms don’t implement the common sense business strategies that will increase their revenue.
by David Maister
The Adversity Paradox
Adversity is not an absolute requirement for building business savvy-ness or for being successful. But it has provided an invaluable crucible of learning.
by J. Barry Griswell & Bob Jennings
The Age Of Participation
The book is a fascinating examination of what real participation means, in the workplace, and in society at large.
by Patricia McLagan and Christo Nel
The Big Three Management Styles
The central idea is that there are in fact only three basic leadership styles – Directing, Discussing and Delegating.
by Paul B. Thornton
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
In The 'Clock of the Long Now', Brand tells the story about this effort to develop "the world's slowest computer." It's sort of like 'The Soul of a New Machine', except written by one of the project team, with the project still unfinished.
by Stewart Brand
The Daily Six
Six simple steps to find the perfect balance of prosperity & purpose
by John Chappelear
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
"Although consciousness has historically been in the domain of philosophers, it is neurologists who are doing the breakthrough work right now. Antonio Damasio has written a book that will probably be in print a hundred years from now..."
by Antonio R. Damasio
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
"Lawrence Lessig argues that free and open resources have always been critical to innovation, and that the Internet is rapidly becoming a lot less free."
by Lawrence Lessig
The Game Of Life
If life is a game, how do you play it? What are the rules and who makes them? Who are the master players? Are you a player or an unwitting victim?
by Jim Murray
The Game-Changer
A.G. sums this up as "purpose driven innovation". This means innovation designed to do more than build market share and profits, and instead to focus on transforming new ideas and technologies into useful products that help consumers.
by A.G. Lafley & Ram Charan
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
The Lady Tasting Tea is one of the more painless introductions to statistics I have seen...it makes the case that statistics changed the nature of science in the 20th Century. It is just as true that it has changed business.
by David Salsburg
The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills
Just how innovative is your organisation? If you want to unlock potential within yourself and your team, this is the book to read.
by Paul Sloane
The Leadership Challenge (4th Ed)
The first edition had become a modern classic on leadership. With this 4th edition, new cases and concepts make it more readable and accessible to readers.
by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner
The Leadership Mystique: A User's Manual for the Human Enterprise
Kets de Vries makes two key arguments. One, organizations, like people, have psychological styles. Two, people are not so straightforward.
by Manfred Kets de Vries
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Friedman explains the foreign affairs beat, and his experiences. "To understand foreign affairs, Friedman says, one needs to understand economics; and to understand economics in the 90's, one needs to understand the changes that globalization is bringing."
by Thomas L. Friedman
The Loudest Duck
A Chinese parable notes that the "the loudest duck gets shot." Different cultures can teach us a lot about how to improve our own culture.
by Laura Liswood
The Mystery of Capital
According to Hernando de Soto's book The Mystery of Capital, what separates the haves from the have-nots is property rights. "Today, in many developing and former communist nations, property law is no longer relevant to how the majority of the people live and work. How,he asks, "can a legal system aspire to legitimacy if it cuts out 80 percent of its people?"
by Hernando de Soto
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
The companies of tomorrow will not seek efficiency and "push" their products - they will "pull" to attracting resources, ideas and people to drive learning and adaptation
by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown & Lang Davison
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
This is a practical, hands-on guide that provides the tools in the form of case studies, diagrams and worksheets to help you develop your abilities as an adaptive leader
by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky
The Sustainable Way
So many managers are striving to deal with sustainability issues in an effective way, but so many of them are finding that their efforts fail to put appropriate controls in place. Managers start with the best intentions of behaving in a sustainable way, but find their plans are confounded. It has been shown that they fail to understand the culture and how to align it with their objective of achieving sustainability. Some people have been observed dealing with sustainability very well.
by Lionel Boxer
The Woman Who Saved Children
Eglantyne was the founder of Save the Children, and the author of what became known as the United Nations Rights of the Child.
by Clare Mulley
Three Signs of a Miserable Job
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job utilizes a business fable to present a simple, yet profound diagnosis of what many might consider a constant human condition: job misery.
by Patrick M. Lencioni
Toy Box Leadership
Taking toys that we grew up with to remind us of the leadership lessons that they taught us all.
by Ron Hunter and Michael Waddell
Triangles of Management and Leadership
The Triangles of Management and Leadership provides the core of what managers and leaders do. The triangle simplifies and highlights the three critical factors that comprise each management concept.
by Paul B. Thornton
Unleashing the Ideavirus
"The best way to cut through the fog of clutter, Godin argues, is to embed your offer in an idea, and then let your customers (or even better, your products) do your marketing for you."
by Seth Godin
Warfighting
Because it's short and about strategy, Warfighting invites comparison with The Art of War. They're both excellent, but if you can only have one, pick Warfighting.
by General Al Gray
What the Customer Wants You To Know
Moving away from the traditional idea of just trying to sell a commodity to a customer, Charan presents us with the Value Creation Selling (VCS) sales process.
by Ram Charan
What To Do When You Become The Boss
Taking on a new managerial role requires effective, responsible leadership and the ability to maintain strong relationships.
by Bob Selden
Why Don't You Want What I Want?
How often have you been so absorbed in your own ideas for innovation that you just ride over all opposition, leaving a trail of broken relationships in your wake? Forget traditional advice about gaining support for change. It’s not necessarily the other person that causes the problem, but our approach to them and their concerns.
by Rick Maurer
Why Should The Boss Listen To You?
Realize the importance of understanding how top executives think and what they expect and need from their advisors,
by James E. Lukaszewski
Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal?
Robert explains how to avoid the chain of mistakes that can destroy your organization.
by Robert E Mittelstaedt, Jr.
Wired Life - who are we in the digital age?
Jonscher turns the whole "digital life" thing on it's head, arguing with a great deal of force that the analog nature of human beings gives us all cause for optimism
by Charles Jonscher
Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success
Through candid examples and useful “news you can use” bites, the authors explain that Womenomics is a power that will get you the work life balance you really want.
by Claire Shipman & Katty Kay
Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less
Whilst we may know the systems we should use, we’re not necessarily implementing them to best advantage. This books shows you how.
by Sam Carpenter
X-teams
Simply focusing your teams on internal team building activities is not good enough - you must collectively and deliberately focus on external issues to both bind the team together and get real traction on business issues.
by Deborah Ancona & Henrik Bresman
Your Leadership Legacy
The authors remind us that the actions we take and the decisions we make impact the people around us for better or for worse.
by Robert Galford and Regina Maruca
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