Communication
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
Posted June 1, 2016 in Communication, Leadership, Self-Insight, What We're ReadingWritten by: Shane Snow Review by: Julie Melaschenko The Premise: Billed as a book for entrepreneurs, Shane Snow’s Smartcuts is actually a great book for anyone looking for ways to innovate, simplify or create. A smartcut is a term Snow coins to describe the way in which a person jumps a series of steps towards […]
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The Decoded Company: Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers
Posted April 1, 2014 in Communication, Leadership, What We're ReadingBy: Leerom Segal, Aaron Goldstein, Jay Goldman, Rahaf Harfoush Reviewed by: Daneal Charney The Premise: I am one of those HR geeks who closely follows management innovationalists like Gary Hamel and Don Tapscott. So when I picked up The Decoded Company I got excited. The book presents breakthrough ideas on how to leverage employee work data […]
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
Posted January 1, 2014 in Communication, Leadership, Teamwork, What We're ReadingBy: Simon Sinek Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: In a follow-up to his bestseller, Start with Why, Simon Sinek explores what factors drive some employees to say “I love my job” while others approach work like they’re heading to the gallows. In Leaders Eat Last, Sinek explores how you can create an organization in […]
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Change with Confidence
Posted August 1, 2013 in Communication, Decision Making, Leadership, What We're ReadingBy: Phil Buckley Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: Change with Confidence is consultant Phil Buckley’s first book and provides leaders and change professionals with answers to the top 50 questions about change that Buckley has encountered in his career as a corporate change specialist. The book is organized around four phases of a change […]
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Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead
Posted April 1, 2013 in Career Management, Communication, What We're ReadingBy: Sheryl Sandberg Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Overview: 30 years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions. In Lean In, Facebook COO and Harvard graduate Sheryl Sandberg combines research, data and personal insights to explore the reasons why the […]
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Poke the Box
Posted September 1, 2012 in Communication, Self-Insight, What We're ReadingBy: Seth Godin Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: When was the last time you did something for the first time? asks Seth Godin in his “start something” manifesto, Poke the Box. This slim volume is a bit like reading a Rick Mercer rant with a bit of a marketing spin. Godin continues on his […]
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