Book Reviews
10 Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
By Vijay Govindarajan and
Chris Trimble
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
252 pages, $29.95
A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
By Richard Bookstaber
John Wiley & Sons, 2007, 288 pages
A Sense of Urgency
By John P. Kotter
Harvard Business Press, 2008, 208 pages
Ahead of the Curve: A Commonsense Guide to Forecasting Business and Market Cycles
By Joseph H. Ellis
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
300 pages, $29.95
Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters
By Barbara Kellerman
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
282 pages, $26.95
Beating the Commodity Trap: How to Maximize Your Competitive Position and Increase Your Pricing Power
By Richard A. D’Aveni
Harvard Business Press, 2010, 208 pages
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
By W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
272 pages, $27.95
Built for Growth: Expanding Your Business Around the Corner or Across the Globe
By Arthur Rubinfeld and Collins Hemingway
Wharton School Publishing, 2005
368 pages, $25.95
But Wait…There’s More! Tighten Your Abs, Make Millions, and Learn How the $100 Billion Infomercial Industry Sold Us Everything but the Kitchen Sink
By Remy Stern
Collins Business, 2009, 272 pages
Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
By Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
234 pages
Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom
By Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
288 pages, $29.95
Doing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference — The Revolutionary Old-School Approach
By James M. Kilts with John F. Manfredi and Robert L. Lorber
Crown Business, 2007, 334 pages
Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition
By Ming Zeng and Peter J. Williamson
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
240 pages
Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership
By Paul R. Lawrence
Jossey-Bass, 2010
Earth, Inc.: Using Nature’s Rules to Build Sustainable Profits
By Gregory Unruh
Harvard Business Press, 2010
Einstein: His Life and Universe
By Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 2007, 704 pages
Fallen Giant: The Amazing Story of Hank Greenberg and the History of AIG
By Ron Shelp with Al Ehrbar
Wiley, 2006
228 pages
Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model
By Harold James
Belknap Harvard, 2006
446 pages, $39.95
Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound after Career Disasters
By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and
Andrew Ward
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
306 pages
Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work
By Dick Grote
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
276 pages, $35.00
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
By Jessica Livingston
Apress, 2007
470 pages
Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is at Odds with Economics — and Why It Matters
By Peter A. Ubel
Harvard Business Press, 2009, 272 pages
Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change
By Bob Seidensticker
Berrett-Koehler, 2006
272 pages, $15.95
Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity Implosion
By Steven M. Davidoff
John Wiley & Sons, 2009, 384 pages
Hannibal and Me: What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us about Success and Failure
By Andreas Kluth
Riverhead Books, 2012
How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In
By Jim Collins
HarperCollins, 2009, 240 pages
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
By Michael S. Gazzaniga
Ecco, 2008, 464 pages
Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
By George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton
Princeton University Press, 2010
Inside Project Red Stripe: Incubating Innovation and Teamwork at the Economist
By Andrew Carey
Triarchy Press, 2008, 232 pages
Jacked Up: The Inside Story of How Jack Welch Talked GE into Becoming the World’s Greatest Company
By Bill Lane
McGraw-Hill, 2008, 336 pages
Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox
By Charles D. Ellis
Wiley, 2006
414 pages, $27.95
Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach to Fun on the Job
By Dennis W. Bakke
PVG, 2005
336 pages, $24.95
Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors
By Evan I. Schwartz
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
238 pages, $24.95
Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work
By Tad Waddington
Agate Publishing, 2007, 128 page
Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together
By James P. Womack and
Daniel T. Jones
Free Press, 2005
366 pages, $30.00
Made in China: What Western Managers Can Learn from Trailblazing Chinese Entrepreneurs
By Donald N. Sull with Yong Wang
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
256 pages, $35.00
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Random House, 2007
304 pages
Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science
By Charles S. Jacobs
Portfolio, 2009, 216 pages
Masters of Management: How Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World – For Better and For Worse
By Adrian Wooldridge
HarperBusiness, 2011
Michael O’Leary: A Life in Full Flight: The Story of the Man Who Made Ryanair Take Off
By Alan Ruddock
Penguin Ireland (available through specialty retailers), 2007, 448 pages
Once Upon a Car: The Fall and Resurrection of America’s Big Three Auto Makers – GM, Ford, and Chrysler
By Bill Vlasic
William Morrow, 2011
Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
By Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried
Harvard University Press, 2004
294 pages, $24.95
Power: Why Some People Have It — and Others Don’t
By Jeffrey Pfeffer
HarperBusiness, 2010
Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself
By William C. Taylor
William Morrow, 2011
Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature
By Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
232 pages, $26.95
Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter
By Pankaj Ghemawat
Harvard Business School Press, 2007, 272 pages
Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value
By Jeremy Hope
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
272 pages, $29.95
Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Your Self
By Alan M. Webber
Harper Business, 2009, 286 pages
Shift: Inside Nissan’s Historic Revival
By Carlos Ghosn and Philippe Riès
Currency/Doubleday, 2005
256 pages, $25.95
Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth
By Edward D. Hess
Columbia University Press, 2010
Stall Points: Most Companies Stop Growing — Yours Doesn’t Have To
By Matthew S. Olson and Derek Van Bever
Yale University Press, 2008, 256 pages
Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World
By Michael A. Cusumano
Oxford University Press, 2010
Strategy Bites Back: It’s Far More, and Less, Than You Ever Imagined
By Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel
Prentice Hall, 2005
296 pages, $29.95
Taking Advice: How Leaders Get Good Counsel and Use It Wisely
By Dan Ciampa
Harvard Business School Press,
2006
220 pages, $26.95
The (Mis)behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
By Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
Perseus, 2004
328 pages, $27.50
The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps Between Plans, Actions and Results
By Stephen Bungay
Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
By Marc Levinson
Princeton University Press, 2006
392 pages, $24.95
The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies
By Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave
Portfolio, 2009, 318 pages
The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters
By Diane Coyle
Princeton University Press, 2011
The Future of Management
By Gary Hamel with Bill Breen
Harvard Business School Press, 2007, 288 pages
The G Quotient: Why Gay Executives Are Excelling as Leaders…and What Every Manager Needs to Know
By Kirk Snyder
Jossey-Bass, 2006
206 pages, $24.95
The Greed Merchants: How Investment Banks Played the Free-Market Game
By Philip Augar
Portfolio, 2005
258 pages, $24.95
The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan’s Great Recession
By Richard C. Koo
Wiley, 2008, 312 pages
The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen
Harvard Business Review Press, 2011
The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work
By Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, Joseph V. Sinfield, and Elizabeth J. Altman
Harvard Business Press, 2008, 320 pages
The Innovator’s Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth
By Michael E. Raynor
Crown Business
The Leaders We Need, and What Makes Us Follow
By Michael Maccoby
Harvard Business School Press, 2007, 272 pages
The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong
By Matthew Stewart
W.W. Norton & Company, 2009, 352 pages
The Mormon Way of Doing Business: Leadership and Success through Faith and Family
By Jeff Benedict
Warner Business Books, 2007, 256 pages
The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
By Umair Haque
Harvard Business Review Press, 2011
The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results
By George Bradt, Jayme A. Check, and Jorge Pedraza
Wiley, 2006
240 pages, $25.95
The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win through Integrative Thinking
By Roger L. Martin
Harvard Business School Press, 2007, 222 pages
The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles and the Efficient Market Fallacy
By George Cooper
Vintage Books, 2008, 204 pages
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
By Roger Knight
Basic Books, 2005
910 pages, $35.00
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
By Scott Patterson
Crown Business, 2009, 352 pages
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
By Matt Ridley
HarperCollins, 2010
The Road from Ruin: How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back on Top
By Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
Crown Business, 2010
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
By Nicholas G. Carr
W.W. Norton, 2010
The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times
By Scott D. Anthony
Harvard Business Press, 2009,
220 pages
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies
By Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Bloomsbury Press, 2010
The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads Corporations to Failure (And What to Do about It)
By Michael E. Raynor
Doubleday, 2007
320 pages
The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads Corporations to Failure (And What to Do about It)
By Michael E. Raynor
Doubleday, 2007
320 pages
The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
By Robert J. Shiller
Princeton University Press, 2008, 208 pages
The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing
By Michael J. Mauboussin
Harvard Business Review Press
The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America’s Most Troubled Companies
By Steve Miller
HarperCollins, 2008, 272 pages
The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management: Lasting Lessons from the Best Leadership Minds of Our Time
By Alan Murray
HarperBusiness, 2010
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
By James Surowiecki
Doubleday, 2004
296 pages, $24.95
Then We Set His Hair on Fire: Insights and Accidents from a Hall-of-Fame Career in Advertising
By Phil Dusenberry
Portfolio, 2005
304 pages, $24.95
Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
By Michael J. Mauboussin
Harvard Business Press, 2009, 224 pages
Toyota under Fire: Lessons for Turning Crisis into Opportunity
By Jeffrey K. Liker and Timothy N. Ogden
McGraw-Hill, 2011
Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth
By Chris Zook
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
208 pages
Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon
By William J. Holstein
Walker Publishing Company, 2009, 284 pages
Winning Investors Over: Surprising Truths about Honesty, Earnings Guidance, and Other Ways to Boost Your Stock Price
By Baruch Lev
Harvard Business Review Press, 2012
You’re in Charge — Now What? The 8-Point Plan
By Thomas J. Neff and James M. Citrin
Crown Business, 2005
320 pages, $25.00
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