Roger D’Aprix has just published another book that should serve as required reading for every project, team and corporate leader. Bosses: True Stories of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly is Roger’s eighth book. Each focuses on improving business results through better managed communication. The most powerful communication in an organization comes from leaders—or… Read more
Book Review
Change the Game: Save The Dream
Jack Stack has done it again. He’s produced another superior book about the huge successes that open book management is having on organizations of all sizes and industries. The book is “Change the Game: Saving the American Dream by Closing the Gap Between the Haves and the Have-nots.” Jack is CEO of SRC Corporation in… Read more
How to Improve Corporate Creativity…
Ten Points About Orbiting the Giant Hairball Although I was introduced to the creative mind of the late Gordon MacKenzie when I was consulting to Hallmark Cards in the early 1990’s, it was only a few weeks ago while on vacation that I devoured his book: Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fools Guide to… Read more
Getting to the Heart of Employee Engagement
I’ve read most every book on engagement that’s out there. But if I had to choose only one to read, Getting to the Heart of Employee Engagement: The Power and Purpose of Imagination and Free Will in the Workplace by Les Landes would be it. Here’s why. Most books on the subject say the same… Read more
Good Company – Great Book
I work hard to find newness in business books. But a lot of them are old ideas repackaged. Or as management author and consultant Gary Hamel has said, “The average business book is just a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article with extra examples and the average HBR article is a good PowerPoint presentation with extra… Read more