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…
(May 28, 2007) Subtitled: A Search for the Soul of Kindness. I don’t know too many people who would automatically think that “compassion” and “business” go hand in hand. (Take a breath and visualize Starbucks.) It would be convenient to think we could truly compartmentalize our lives into neat boxes and sort out feelings and…
May 30, 2007 – This book proposes to help us “Discover the 20 Workplace Habits You Need to Break.” And I discovered I have quite a few of the 20. I listened to this as an audiobook, and then wanted to quote something out of it for a newsletter I was writing, so I ended up buying…
Nov. 26, 2005 – Subtitled “Getting Out of the Box” this is another parable type story that works well. Amazon pairs it with another book entitled Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves by C. Terry Warner, also of the Arbinger Institute. I thought both were excellent and would recommend both. TheLeadership book explores…
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