Posts Tagged ‘book review’
Book Review: StandOut
Marcus Buckingham is a soloist in the strengths movement choir. He has been a mouthpiece for the idea since seemingly the very beginning. Marcus is a gifted communicator with a talent for understanding the need for rigorous research. Which is why when he finally decided to create a market a self-assessment, StandOut, it should peak [...]
Book Review: The Decision to Trust
Leaders lead through trust. More specifically, they lead when the decision to trust has been made by the follower. This is a basic premise of Dr. Robert Hurley’s new book The Decision to Trust. Hurley addresses this book to the seemingly permanent lack of trust currently felt for our businesses and government. Dr. Hurley’s purpose [...]
Book Review: The Synergist
A few weeks ago, we welcomed back Les McKeown (not the one from the Bay City Rollers) to the LeaderLab podcast. Les’ first book, Predictable Success, outlined organizational life cycles in an easy to comprehend model and provided suggestions for how to keep an organization from declining. His follow-up, The Synergist, digs a little deeper [...]
Book Review: Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers
I am fascinated by change. Well, not really. Like most humans I am quite threaten by change. However, as an organizational scholar, I am fascinated by how some organizations managed to successfully lead their people through change and others fail miserably. For this reason, I was excited to read and review the updated version of [...]
Book Review: The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management
I love materials that appeal to the scholarly-practitioner – anything steeped in research or fresh from the mouth of a subject-matter expert and written focused on people who DO instead of people who STUDY people who do. This is why I a fan of the new book The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management. You [...]
