Short Book Reviews

Enterprise 2.0

Ron's Short Review: Collaboration is the gold of the future ...

Choke

Ron's Short Review: Avoiding the pitfall of choking.  It happens and it's real ...

Drive

Ron's Short Review: I've been a big fan of Daniel Pink's work.  This one is about true motivation but I recommend ...

A Thomas Jefferson Education

Ron's Short Review: A great model for education, both in the classroom and in the corporation. Fascinating discussion on how our public ...

Play

Ron's Short Review: My first question is often, "Are you having fun?"  It seems to be the best indicator of things ...

Opposable Mind

Ron's Short Review: Holding opposing views in our mind at the same time helps us with decision making ...

Management Rewired

Ron's Short Review: How our brain actually works and how that impacts our image of management and leadership ...

The Introverted Leader

Ron's Short Review: Encouraging the Introverted leader ...

Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture

Ron's Short Review: The ideas of competing values helps clarify many corporate issues ...

Words That Work

Ron's Short Review: Speaking to your audience ...

Wisdom of Teams

Ron's Short Review: Teams greatly increase our ability to solve problems ...

Right from the Start

Ron's Short Review: Dan lays out a good plan for the first 100 days in a new job ...

Predictably Irrational

Ron's Short Review: We assume irrational behavior is just that.  It's not; it's predictable ...

Not Quite What I Was Planning

Ron's Short Review: Great for stating a vision, goal or even a problem in six words or less ...

Heroic Leadership

Ron's Short Review: The Jesuits were formed at a time of new world markets, links between American, Europe and Asia and ...

The Innovator’s Solution

Ron's Short Review: The whole concept of innovation is driving much of what companies are talking about.  Good view of what ...

Cowboy Values

Ron's Short Review: Just a fun read about cowboys and their American values ...

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

Ron's Short Review: Making the shift from being a manager to being a leader takes different skills ...

Death by Meeting

Ron's Short Review: This book may be better than his Five Dysfunctions of a Team ...

Taking Advice

Ron's Short Review: Looks at the other side of consulting, being able to take advice wisely ...

The SPEED of Trust

Ron's Short Review: Lack of Trust adds a stiff tax to the operation of an organization ...

Leadership and the New Science

Ron's Short Review: This one is deep and takes some real thought and concentration ...

Difficult Conversations

Ron's Short Review: Helpful advice for the difficult moments ...

The Culture Code

Ron's Short Review: Rapaille is one of the more fascinating people I have every met and his work is very useful ...

If Aristotle Ran General Motors

Ron's Short Review: Ancient principles never get old ...

The I in Team

Ron's Short Review: Understanding how to support everyone's "I" in the team is a powerful concept ...

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

Ron's Short Review: If creativity and innovation are your needs (and they are for just about every company these days) da ...

Four Cardinal Virtues

Ron's Short Review: Amazing how much these principles are at the heart of great corporations and leadership ...

Faith, Hope, Love

Ron's Short Summary: Amazing how much these principles are at the heart of great corporations and leadership ...

Creating We

Ron's Short Summary: "We" is becoming more and more important in an every changing world ...

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