Short Book Reviews

Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ron's Short Review: Good advice written for the CEO's of start-ups but it really applies to leadership at any level ...

A More Beautiful Question

Ron's Short Review: This one really convinces you that managers have answers, true leaders have questions, provoke questions and teach ...

Turn the Ship Around

Ron's Short Review: When I read this book I thought I only got one point.  Then I heard Marquet speak ...

Steve Jobs

Ron's Short Review: Very well written and seemingly unbiased biography of Steve Jobs.  I actually understood more about him when I ...

Tribes

Ron's Short Review: "There are tribes everywhere. Every one of these tribes is yearning for leadership." A real appeal to ...

Anyway

Ron's Short Review: I've used this very little easy read with many of my clients.  Life is difficult (as Scott Peck ...

Antifragile

Ron's Short Review: Disorder and change are the times we live in.  This books helps in dealing with this new reality. This ...

What Matters Now

Ron's Short Review: Great follow-up book to Daniel Pink's "Whole New Mind".  Now that the world is in a state of ...

To Sell Is Human

Ron's Short Review: Pink's third book that really helps us understand our own motives and approaches ...

Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Ron's Short Review: It may be that only Steve Jobs could pull some of these off but they sure are good ...

On Being Certain

Ron's Short Review: This one will scare you because it scientifically proves that when we're the most certain, we're probably also ...

Mindsight

Ron's Short Review: Understanding and using your mind properly ...

Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations

Ron's Short Review: Denison's culture survey is still the only one that I know of that relates culture to bottom-line performance ...

The Invisible Gorilla

Ron's Short Review: When we know what we're looking for we miss a lot of relevant information ...

How We Decide

Ron's Short Review: Good understand of personal and group decision making ...

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Ron's Short Review: Helping us understand how our brains actually work helps us understand and make better decisions ...

Start with Why

Ron's Short Review: This one is simple and powerful.  It will also explain why we can't get out point across when ...

Social Intelligence

Ron's Short Review: Goleman continues to reinforce that it's our emotional intelligence that actually makes a difference ...

Reframing Organizations

Ron's Short Review: Another framework for viewing organizations and their behavior ...

The Principle of Relevance

Ron's Short Review: We spend a lot of time doing things.  How much of it is actually relevant? ...

The Primes

Ron's Short Review: Great book on the dynamics of team, decision making and mass movement ...

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Fifth Edition

Ron's Short Review: Dry academic book.  But many of my clients deal in a world of mergers and acquisitions ...

Power Ambition Glory

Ron's Short Review: Tough slog of a book for me but some interesting parallels in history ...

Great by Choice

Ron's Short Review: Good to Great is one of the best researched business book.  Collins continues his journey on understand why ...

Experience Economy

Ron's Short Review: Our economy is based on much more than the old supply and demand understanding.  This is about being ...

Character Strengths and Virtues

Ron's Short Review: Classic book on Character and Virtue, the real issues behind great leadership ...

Team of Rivals

Ron's Short Review: I'm not sure we'll see another Lincoln but building a team out of rivals is very powerful and ...

Switch

Ron's Short Review: The Heath brothers write great books on story telling and how it can move us and our colleagues, ...

The Social Styles Handbook

Ron's Short Review: Wilson Learning has a great framework for understanding people and how to apply it to the work place ...

Made to Stick

Ron's Short Review: Very powerful book on telling stories that people remember.  Don't let the word "stories" fool you.  We're selling ...
Loading...

1 comment

Absurd!: Exploring Management of the Absurd - Team Leadership Culture February 4, 2016 - 6:12 pm

[…] Reading List […]

Comments are closed.