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…
The Culture Engine A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace by S. Chris Edmonds The Culture Engine is a guide to strategically planning a culture by compiling the company’s guiding principles and behaviors into an organizational constitution. Decide which behaviors and attitudes are desired in the organization. Secure leader commitment…
Seven Disciplines of A Leader How to Help Your People, Team and Organization Achieve Maximum Effectiveness by Jeff Wolf This is a comprehensive book for building better leaders. In this interview, Jeff shares the secrets of great leadership to help others align professional development and exemplify these traits themselves. Each of the Disciplines is valuable…
Manufacturing Demand The Principles of Successful Lead Management by David Lewis Historically, the discipline of marketing has been heavily skewed toward a subjective art at the expense of a measurable science. But today, savvy marketers and forward-looking organizations are embracing innovative new models driven by cutting-edge technology and analytics to align sales and marketing, pinpoint…
The Simplicity Cycle A Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse by Dan Ward The award-winning engineer, Air Force lieutenant colonel, and author of F.I.R.E offers a road map for designing winning new products, services, and business models, and shows how to avoid complexity-related pitfalls in the process. With a foreword by…
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…
Transforming Business with Program Management Integrating Strategy, People, Process, Technology, Structure, and Measurement by Satish P. Subramanian Organizations need to constantly innovate and improve products and services to maintain a strong competitive position in the market place. The vehicle used by organizations for such constant reinvention is a business transformation program. This book illustrates a…
How To Write An Inspired Creative Brief by Howard Ibach In my 35 years in the advertising industry I have seen a lot of creative briefs but this is the first time I have had the pleasure of sitting down with someone and acutely hashing it out. I find out fresh insights into the document…
The Amazing Science Fair Project Project Kids Adventures #3 by Gary Nelson Yes it’s a kids book but it’s also a great way to teach your kids (and yourself) how to look at projects in a smart no nonsense way. Gary has cleverly snuck in some amazing tips and tools for project managers and has…
Light a Fire under Your Business How to Build a Class 1 Corporate Culture through Inspirational Leadership by Tom Pandola and James W. Bird Tom Pandola and Jim Bird’s new book Light a Fire Under Your Business is unlike most business books you will read. The authors not only share practical business principles, but they…