‘Book Reviews’ Archives
The 6 New Management Imperatives by Bruce Temkin – comments
Bruce Temkin has published a free book on his blog ((experiencematters.wordpress.com)), The 6 New Management Imperatives - Leadership Skills for a Radically Changed Business Environment. Mr. Temkin sets out to define a "new set of skills" for managers. These are the 6 new imperatives: Invest in culture as a corporate asset Make listening [...]
Book Review – 12 The Elements of Great Managing and Making These Actionable
The Gallup Organization has been publishing books on management and high performance organizations regularly for quite some time. The encouraging elements in all of them are that they are based on real data from real people about real work. I have recommended two earlier books from Gallup, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, First, Break All [...]
Podcast – Getting Things Done by David Allen – a revisit
A revisit to David Allen's book, Getting Things Done. Get stuff out of your head, follow the two minute rule, file things away, work strategically and tactically. A Revisit to David Allen's Book, Getting Things Done:
Learning To Be Effective – comments on Kelley’s How To Be a Star At Work
Learning to be an effective manager is almost entirely a self-guided learning enterprise. Almost no business schools even approach the topic despite the hundreds of courses they offer on almost every functional aspect of management ((see Henry Mintzberg, Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, [...]
Getting Things Done by David Allen – a revisit
I have used David Allen's book, Getting Things Done: the art of stress-free productivity (Penguin: NY 2001) both personally and with clients for a number of years. Recently I volunteered to lead a discussion of the book's approach to personal productivity with the Greater Boston Business Network. This provoked me to re-read the book in [...]
Are You Afraid of Your Financial Statements?
I picked up this little book, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements - the search for the company with durable competitive advantage (Scribner: New York, 2008), thinking that I might learn something valuable about the current economic mess and as a possible guide to shaping personal investment decisions. However, from the [...]
Podcast – Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions and High Performance
Multitasking is worse than a myth; it is a fraud and a thief. Other lessons learned This podcast is 7 minutes 24 seconds long. You can read the text here.
Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions, and High Performance
Last week I ran into a little book (it really is little, 135 pages in a 5" x 7" format - very easy on the hand and eye), The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done by David Crenshaw (Jossey-Bass: San Francisco 2008). The initial chapters take up the question of humans as multitaskers. For those who need to be reassured that [...]
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes: a history of financial crises – book review
I originally wrote this review in 2004. Seems like a good moment to pass it along again. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: a history of financial crises, fourth edition by Charles P. Kindleberger (New York: Wiley 2000) A recent Wall St Journal article described this book as a "must read" classic for anyone involved in financial markets. I have [...]
