Book Reviews
 

Selected Book Reviews:

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal, by Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr. (Reviewed August 1, 2005.)

The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves, by Annie Murphy Paul. (Reviewed May 27, 2005.)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Reviewed May 3, 2005.)

Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions, by John Hammond, Ralph Keeney, and Howard Raiffa. (Reviewed March 24, 2005.)

Harvard Business Review on Managing Uncertainty. (Reviewed March 2, 2005.)

Harvard Business Review on Decision Making, by Peter Drucker, John Hammond, Ralph Keeney, Howard Raiffa, Alden M. Hayashi, et. al. (Reviewed March 2, 2005.)

Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them, by Michael D. Watkins and Max H. Bazerman. (Reviewed February 3, 2005.)

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, by James  Surowiecki. (Reviewed January 27, 2005.)

Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom, by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap. (Reviewed on 12/28/2004)

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business, by Patrick Lencioni. (Reviewed October 25, 2004.)

Breaking the Code of Change, by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria. (Reviewed on 10/11/2004.)

The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications, by Murray Turoff and Harold A. Linstone. (Reviewed on 09/20/2004.)

The Moral Advantage: How to Succeed in Business by Doing the Right Thing, by William Damon. (Reviewed on 09/17/2004.)

Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management, Mark Ackerman, Volker Wulf, and Volkmar Pipek. (Reviewed on 09/15/2004.)

Birth of the Chaordic Age, by Dee Hock. (Reviewed on 09/08/2004.)

Calculated Risks: How To Know When Numbers Deceive You, by Gerd Gigerenzer. (Reviewed on 07/02/2004.)

In Defense of Globalization, by Jagdish Bhagwati. (Reviewed on 06/22/2004.)

The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future, by Scott Burns and Laurence J. Kotlikoff. (Reviewed on 06/17/2004.)

The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What To Do About It, by Phillip Longman. (Reviewed on 06/15/2004.)

The Thinker's Toolkit: Fourteen Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving, by Morgan D. Jones. (Reviewed on 06/14/2004.)

Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets - Why Some Nations Are Rich but Most Remain Poor, by John Kay. (Reviewed on 06/14/2004.)

How To Change The World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein. (Reviewed on 06/14/2004.)

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change, by Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Diana Whitney. (Reviewed on 06/14/2004.)

Wharton on Making Decisions, by Howard C. Kunreuther and Stephen J. Hoch. (Reviewed on 05/26/2004.)

The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life, by Thomas W. Malone. (Reviewed on 04/02/2004.)

Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future, by Richard Schmalensee and Thomas A. Kochan. (Reviewed on 03/26/2004.)

The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Powerful Problem-solving Techniques to Ignite Your Team's Potential, by Paul Sloane. (Reviewed on 03/23/2004.)

Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century, by Michael S. Scott Morton and Robert J. Laubacher, and Thomas W. Malone. (Reviewed on 03/12/2004.)

What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science, by Richard N. Cooper and Richard Layard. (Reviewed on 03/08/2004.)

Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid, by Robert J. Sternberg. (Reviewed on 02/26/2004.)

How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market, by Gerald Zaltman. (Reviewed on 02/03/2004.)

Principles of Forecasting, by J. Scott Armstrong. (Reviewed on 02/03/2004.)

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Business Creativity For the 90's, by Michael Michalko. (Reviewed on 12/30/2003.)

Managing in the Next Society, by Peter Drucker. (Reviewed on 12/29/2003.)

Rapid Problem Solving With Post-It Notes, by David Straker. (Reviewed on 12/15/2003.)

101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques: The Handbook of New Ideas for Business, by James M. Higgins. (Reviewed on 12/12/2003.)

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, by Gary Klein. (Reviewed on 11/26/2003.)

Mastering Virtual Teams, by Deborah L. Duarte and Nancy Tennant Snyder. (Reviewed on 11/25/2003.)

Creativity Inc.: Building an Inventive Organization, by Jeff Mauzy and Richard A. Harriman. (Reviewed on 11/24/2003.)

Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance, by Lynn Sharp Paine. (Reviewed on 11/17/2003.)

Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation, by Stefan H. Thomke. (Reviewed on 11/03/2003.)

Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence, by Peter Schwartz. (Rviewed on 09/02/2003.)

Management Challenges for the 21st Century, by Peter Drucker. (Reviewed on 07/31/2003.)

Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People, by Joyce Gioia, Tom Olivo, and Roger Herman. (Reviewed on 05/29/2003.)

Positive Illusions: Creative Self-Deception and the Healthy Mind, by Shelley E. Taylor. (Reviewed on 03/10/2003.)

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Reviewed on 11/22/2002.)

Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future, by Joel Arthur Barker. (Reviewed on 10/23/2002.)

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert B. Cialdini. (Reviewed on 07/05/2002.)

20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in an Uncertain World, by Hugh Courtney. (Reviewed on 06/10/2002.)

Cultivating Communities of Practice, by Etienne Wenger and Richard A. McDermott. (Reviewed on 02/04/2002.)

Rebel with a Cause, by John Sperling. (Reviewed on 01/22/2002.)

The Social Life of Information, by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. (Reviewed on 08/21/2001.)

Learning from the Future: Competitive Foresight Scenarios, by Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall. (Reviewed on 02/09/2001.)

 

 

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