Overall 3.5 Stars of out 5: ***- Margaret Heffernan provides a dizzying array of business and non-business stories where people and organizations have willfully blinded of themselves, been overwhelmed by the complexity of their situations, or otherwise would not hold themselves responsible for taking action in a dreadful situation, and as a result, get further […]

Overall 4 Stars of out 5: **** John C Maxwell does a good job of providing a great list of opportunities to improve your leadership and guidelines by which to do so. The majority of the first portion of the book up until the last couple of chapters offers lots of great references to other […]

Overall 3 Stars of out 5: *** I was recently encouraged to read Selling to VITO, a thought-provoking guide that compels you to drive all your sales from a new starting point – the top. VITO stands for Very Important Top Officer, which is the CEO of the organization to which you are trying to sell. […]

Overall 5 Stars of out 5: ***** I listened to this book on Audible. This book does a great job of thoroughly walking you through various significant innovations in history and examining how companies over the centuries have innovated in different ways. I was surprised with how some of the most famous innovations in the past couple […]

Overall 4 Stars of out 5: **** I listened to this book on Audible. If one is interested in building a foundation on innovation from an academic perspective, this is a great book for that. By academic, I mean, an educated dissecting review, so I mean it in a good way. Taking an academic approach lays a […]

“Academic But Worth It” I’ve recently had the benefit of working with two managers with very different styles. In seeing how different they are while working in parallel (along with a handful of other managers as peers), I became more conscious of my own choices in leadership styles enough to do some research. I also […]