Book Review: A Dream with a Deadline: Turning Strategy into Action
Author: Jacques Horovitz with Anne-Valerie Ohlsson-Corboz ISBN: 978-0-273-70868-1 Book review by Jean Fagan. Too often, strategic plans don’t deliver the results they say they will because they fail to achieve commitment at the real points of execution – the larger employee base. They are frequently…
Mandela’s Way: Lessons on Life, Love and Courage
Authors: Richard Stengel and Nelson Mandela. Review by Tara Rivkin If you are to read any book about Nelson Mandela apart from Long Walk To Freedom, his autobiography, this is the one to turn to. Richard Stengel, its author and former Time magazine managing editor,…
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
By Daniel Goleman. Review by Tara Rivkin As a teacher, I rail against the use of smart phones in the classroom and the effects of technology on students’ engagement and attention. There’s something to check and to distract us at all times – Instagram, Minecraft,…
Book review: Pursuing the Triple Aim
PURSUING THE TRIPLE AIM: SEVEN INNOVATORS SHOW THE WAY TO BETTER CARE, BETTER HEALTH, AND LOWER COSTS Sometimes it is easier to grasp the possibility of big change when we’re confronted with the small stories, the ones that come from the individual or local levels….
Book Review: Ready? The 3Rs of preparing your organisation for the future
The 3Rs of preparing your organisation for the future by Thomas W. Malnight, Tracey S. Keys and Kees van der Graaf This is a significant new book on how leaders can balance short and long term pressures and bridge the gap in managing the imperatives…
Book Review: Reinventing You, Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark, a branding executive, tells us how to thrive in today’s competitive, flooded job market and how to get what we want, whether a new job, a new career, a promotion, or, even better, self-reinvention. Nowadays we have options. The option to change jobs….
Book Review: Margaret Wheatley’s ‘Leadership and the New Science”
“Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace,” management professor and consultant Margaret Wheatley writes in her seminal book, Leadership and the New Science. Indeed, she delves into complex science to inform her own, and in turn, our understanding of organizational phenomena and how to approach…
Book Review: The Innovator’s DNA, Jeff Dyer, Clayton Christensen, Hal Gregerson
This highly interesting and useful book has as its genesis two previously successful books and a myriad of interviews with, and studies of, well known and under the radar CEOs, companies, and innovators. The authors interviewed nearly one hundred prominent names and over five thousand…
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles that Fuel Success and Performance at Work
We’ve all fallen into the trap of thinking that happiness comes only once we have achieved our definition of success. But what if, in fact, there is hard scientific evidence that shows we perform better and are more likely to succeed if we cultivate happiness…
Book Review: Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is an exceptionally useful resource for leaders and clinicians (indeed, anyone) looking for a step-by-step guide to improving their, or their team’s, emotional intelligence. Inside each book is a password to an online Emotional Intelligence Appraisal Test, which allows readers to test…
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