Hi Everyone, To all my listeners I would like to shout out a big “Thank You” for supporting the show over the past 6 years. Now it’s my honor to introduce you to “Season 7” with even more great business books. As you know I have been recording the Business Book Talk Interview show for…
The Purpose Is Profit The Truth about Starting and Building Your Own Business by Ed “Skip” McLaughlin, Wyn Lydecker and Paul McLaughlin In this Business book interview I have a great chat with Ed and we meander through a fascinating series of topics that relate to this informative and insightful book. If you’re tired of…
It’s Already Inside Nurturing Your Innate Leadership for Business and Life Success by Robert S. Murray Robert Murray knows the answer for you is “Yes.” You simply have to discover and cultivate those talents you’ve always had. Whether you want to be CEO of a large corporation, lead a sales team, inspire your organization, or…
Myths and Mortals Family Business Leadership and Succession Planning Hardcover by Andrew Keyt Myths & Mortals, Family Business Leadership and Succession Planning provides insights and strategies for successors of family businesses. Successors often find themselves in the shadow of their parents making it difficult to establish credibility in the family business and tap into their…
Beyond Fair Trade Coffee How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village in Thailand by Mark Pendergrast “What does compassionate capitalism look like? Mark Pendergrast shows us in this enlightening story of tribal life, opium, missionaries, market trends, a Thai antiques dealer, a mining entrepreneur and coffee.” Abigail Carroll, author of Three Squares:…
Authentic leadership Discover and live your essential mission by Bas Blekkingh You are a successful leader, you have a lot of responsibility, and for years you have loved your work, but something seems to be missing. Some of the fulfillment you used to feel in your job, even in your life, seems to have ebbed…
Humans Are Underrated What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin It’s easy to imagine a nightmare scenario in which computers simply take over most of the tasks that people now get paid to do. While we’ll still need high-level decision makers and computer developers, those tasks won’t keep most working-age…
Welcome to Season 6 and man it’s going to be an amazing year. We have already booked interviews for over 35 writers. Our stack of must read books just keeps growing and growing so download the show next Monday (January 4th) and check out our first interview for Season 6. Also if you are a…
How to Reform a Business School The Ivy League Way Theory and Practice of Curricular Reform Implementation with an in-Depth Study of Yale School of Management Hardcover by Ashish Jaiswal Undoubtedly, business schools are at a crossroads and under the scanner. In How to Reform a Business School, Ashish Jaiswal meticulously demonstrates the problems plaguing…
Leading Change How Successful Leaders Approach Change Management by Paul Lawrence It is often claimed that 70% of organizational change efforts fail, despite the popularity of linear change models, such as Kotter’s 8-step model. The reason few change efforts succeed as intended is because they are based on two implicit assumptions: that the leader or…