Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years by Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui I find it rather ironic that there are so many well-written best sellers on the shelves today (Built to Last, Good to Great, etc.) that expound on examples of successful organizations…
The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth by Steven S. Little Here’s another author who grabbed my attention by capitalizing on several of my five keys for choosing a book (Tips for Choosing a Great Book) … a catchy title, table of contents and jacket content. The…
Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child by Ron Hunter, Jr. and Michael E. Waddell I first came across this book several months ago during a flight delay in the Atlanta airport. I was so impressed with the content that I wrote an article for our blog. It wasn’t…
The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business by Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson, and Ethan Willis We just added a new feature to our blog spotlighting distinguished authors. The first author I chose to introduce was Ken Blanchard. Before the ink was dry on that article, Blanchard placed another title…
Know Can Do!: Put Your Know-How Into Action by Ken Blanchard, Paul J. Meyer, and Dick Ruhe Here’s another of the marvelous “mini-books” (112 pages) on the shelves today aimed at inspiring readers to greater achievement via a business fable offering wisdom, strategies, and tools. This one comes to us from a trio of well-known…
Leadership Gold: Lessons I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Leading by John C. Maxwell If you’ve been following our book reviews over the years, you probably know how I feel about this particular author. Of his 42 best sellers, this is the sixth book that I’ve reviewed here. To me, reading one of his books…
2011: Trendspotting for the Next Decade by Richard Laermer This may take a bit of a stretch, but try to remember what your life looked like ten years ago. When you think about it, the last decade has produced a multitude of changes we never would have imagined. Ten years ago the cost of a…
Death to All Sacred Cows: How Successful Business People Put the Old Rules Out to Pasture by David Bernstein, Beau Fraser, and Bill Schwab This book has received mixed reviews … everything from “totally worthless” to “memorable business book full of wisdom delivered with a wink.” Personally, I find any text generated on the subject…
The Education of an Accidental CEO: Lessons Learned from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office by David Novak and John Boswell I’ve often mentioned that I admire any author and/or publisher who can create a cover or title that can grab a potential reader in the fraction of a second those browsing eyes scan…