Posts Tagged ‘book review’
Book Review: Find Your Next
Leadership is a directional task. It involves moving people toward a new, mutually desired future. But many times businesses don’t feel like moving, especially large corporations. Even if they do, finding the direction to move toward can be cumbersome and confusing. This is the problem Andrea Kates seeks to solve in Find You Next: Using [...]
Management Tips from HBR
The primary goal for the LeaderLab site is to provide brief, enlightening information for leaders straight from empirical research on leadership, management and organizational behavior. The secondary goal is to shine a spotlight on other resources that are pursuing the primary goal. That is exactly why I’m so positive about Management Tips: From Harvard Business [...]
Creative People Must Be Stopped: David Owens’ Framework for Innovation
Most people claim they want more creativity in their organization. They claim to want big, innovative new ideas. But research reveals that, when faced with new ideas, most of us do whatever we can to kill it. In his new book, Creative People Must Be Stopped, Vanderbilt professor David Owens examines just why we feel [...]
Book Review: Who’s in the Room
There’s an unpopular phenomenon in group dynamics called in-group out-group. I call it unpopular not because it isn’t well-known (it is) but because it seems like everyone who knows about it is against it. Even the original researchers behind in-group out-group (and it’s complement Leader-Member Exchange theory) offer that organizations shouldn’t work this way. They [...]
Book Review: Managing (Right) for the First Time
Usually, I reserve review space on this blog for books that are saturated with empirical evidence and still provide practical implications for everyday leadership. However, every once in awhile I’ll encounter a book that doesn’t claim any ties to research, but offers insights that line up with evidence. David C. Baker’s Managing (Right) for the [...]
