Posts Tagged ‘book review’
Book Review: You Can’t Not Communicate
As dear readers now, LeaderLab is all about the research and theory behind the practice of leadership. This research comes from a lot of fields, organizational behavior, psychology management science, sociology, etc. One often-overlooked field of study in leadership is that of communication theory. This may well be because those doing the research are poor [...]
Book Review: One Piece of Paper
Last week, we featured fellow blogger Mike Figliuolo on the LeaderLab Podcast. Mike’s new book One Piece of Paper aims at helping leaders distill their philosophy of leadership down to several leadership “maxims” in order to help leaders clarify and stay true to how they feel they should lead. The book is full of interest [...]
Book Review: 18 Minutes
I’m a big fan of Peter Bregman’s blog on HBR.org. So naturally I was excited when I received an advance review copy of his new book 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Masters Distraction and Get the Right Things Done. The book has a similar tone to his blog posts, in fact it’s easy to recognize [...]
Book Review: Millennials into Leadership
How will the Millennials lead? That question will directly impact organizations over the next few years, as the Millennials move into more impacting leadership positions. The oldest Millennial is 31 now, and we will see them become Executives in established organizations very shortly. Will that change leadership as we know it? Lisa Orrell attempts to [...]
Book Review: The Progress Principle
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to finish The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer. Ordinarily, I disclose when the publisher has sent me a free copy of the book. For this review, I’d like to disclose that I paid my own, hard-earned money for this book because it emphasis how much [...]
