Nov. 2005 – This book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was originally published in 1990. I bought it because of an article about the book in FastCompany Magazine several months ago. I took the book with me to read at our company’s manager’s retreat in September. I was reading it poolside and ran into one of my…
Nov. 2005 – There’s a reason this book has been on the NY Times Bestseller list for such a long time. It’s interesting. It takes things that are completely familiar to us and makes us look at them in an entirely different way – from the framwork of economic theory. If this was music, it…
Nov. 2005 – I’ve read some reader reviews on Amazon that talk about the repetition and reduncancy that some people found in this book. While there is some repetition, I didn’t feel that it in any way took away from the overall value of the book. Subtitled “How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin and…
Nov. 2005 – An offering from the Havard Business School Press subtitled “How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant.” An exceptional book about truly assessing where the market is going and figuring out how to create a new space before your competition does. It’s a matter of looking at your own company’s…
Nov. 2005 – I loved this book. The subtitle is “How America’s Best Performing Companies Keep the Start-up Spirit Alive.” I found it through a book review in FastCompany magazine, which often profiles excellent new books. The beginning of the book speaks immediately to those who have experience with a “start-up.” Although our company was…
Nov. 2005 – One of those business fables made so popular by writers like Ken Blanchard, who wrote the forward for this third edition. This book was recommended by our VP of Insurance (recently made President of Personal Lines) who announced at a department heads meeting that he considered me a peacock. It is one of…
Nov. 2005 – I definitely want to be Jack Welch when I grow up. If I had any plans to grow up. I’m still considering my careers options – dancing pirate or possibly talk show host. Still, Jack has a way of cutting to the essential truths about running a business. Especially a large, complex, multi-national…
Nov. 2005 – This book was recommended by one of our regional vice presidents in SW Virginia. The book is excellent for giving a background and overview to the articles that are appearing every day from the Wall Street Journal to BusinessWeek. Globalization seems to have come out of nowhere with the rise of India…
Nov. 2005 – Just finished Daniel H. Pink’s A Whole New Mind. It was loaned to me by one of my colleagues in the Training Division whose son was assigned the book as part of a college course. The concepts are very interesting and the author makes an excellent case for an overall shift in business…
Nov. 18, 2010 – A really interesting book by UVa professor Jonathan Haidt. His analogy of the elephant and rider is used throughout Chip & Dan Heath’s new book Switch. This book is also part of the culture and training used by Tony Hsieh at Zappos and referenced in his book Delivering Happiness. Not bad for…
(July 2010) – Subtitled: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. A great book in the “must read” category because it is so fundamental to how we perceive what happens to us, and that perception affects everything else. Dr. Seligman developed a test for measuring optimism and pessimism, and throughout his career did meticulous research…
May 29, 2007 – I didn’t actually read this book, I listened to it. I found this neat little device at the bookstore, sort of like aniPod only smaller, that had the whole book on it. I believe this was a stroke of good fortune for me because the book is full of fairly weighty material. Listening…
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