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Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make Them Great by Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, James A Burruss, J. Richard Hackman, Harvard Business School Press, 256 pages, $29.
February 20, 2008
Creating a World Without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives by Mohammad Yunus, PublicAffairs, 261 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, January 2008, ISBN 9781586484934 Economist and banker Muhammad Yunus has often been described as a visionary. His work with microcredit lending earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006; the only other recipient that year was the micro lending company he founded, Grameen Bank.
April 09, 2008
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard. H. Thaler and Cass R.
April 11, 2008
The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price, Knopf, 304 pages, $27. 95 Hardcover, May 2008, ISBN 9780307265753 Disney's The Sword in the Stone may have inspired some youngsters with dreams of becoming a knight or magician, leading them to a life of role-playing and dice-throwing.
May 12, 2008
The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation by A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan, Crown Business, 336 pages, $27.
May 13, 2008
It's Our Ship: The No-Nonsense Guide to Leadership by Michael Abrashoff, Business Plus, 208 pages, $25. 99, May 2008, ISBN 9780446199667 One of our best-selling books of the new century has been Michael Abrashoff's first book, It's Your Ship. Abrashoff was then a recently retired captain in the US Navy, and the book told the story of his successful turnaround of the USS Benfold.
The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage by Alexandra Harney, Penguin Press, 336 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, April 2008, ISBN 9781594201578 Many of the books written about business in China in the past few years have come at the situation from a "half full" perspective. As a thinking person, you know there is another side to all these products we are buying so cheaply.
May 14, 2008
Jack and I have been pretty quiet on the blog over the last year. The process of writing a book took more time than I ever imagined. I have a completely new appreciation for the authors who have come before me.
June 16, 2008
Carol Hymowitz in her In The Lead column for The Wall Street Journal recommends summer reading. Among the business titles you will find: John Kotter change fable Our Iceberg Is Melting (John has a new book coming in September, more on that soon). A.
July 03, 2008
The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up by Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher, John Wiley & Sons, 229 pages, $22. 95, Hardcover, March 2008, ISBN 9780470195888 Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher have written a book whose tone perfectly matches its subject--levity. It isn't a word you often hear when discussing business strengths, but The Levity Effect makes a compelling and often hilarious case for why fun should be more common in the workplace.
August 15, 2008
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