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4 Books to Sharpen Your Leadership Skills This Week
by Stu Goldblatt | Category: Book Review
Posted on Friday May 9, 020 at 07:17:29 PM
Liberation ManagementTom PetersIn the new economy, hierarchical business structures are being consigned to the shredder and replaced with flexible, fast-responding, ad hoc groups of brainworkers. Tom Peters, author of the bestselling IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE is once again ahead of the curve, and now demonstrates that the key to success in business future is total engagement, dynamism, speed, and independence.Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and CompetitorsMichael PorterCompetitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter’s rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century.The Competitive Advantage of NationsMichael PorterNow beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages,...
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4 Books to Sharpen Your Leadership Skills This Week
by Stu Goldblatt | Category: Book Review
Posted on April 14, 2020 at 07:54:36 AM
Reading is a great way to be productive and pass time. As social distancing orders continue to remain across the United States and the world, there's no better time to freshen up your business leadership skills with a few highly recommended books. We've asked President of Sales Recruiters, Inc., Henry Glickel, to share a few titles he's read and frequently sharing with his clients for you to read.If you've read something great recently, be sure to share in the comment below so we too can enjoy some good reading that sharpens our leadership skills during COVID-19. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our BrainsNicholas Carr Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes―Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive―even as it plumbs profound questions...
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5 Books to Read During COVID-19
by Stu Goldblatt | Category: Book Review
Posted on March 23, 2020 at 02:13:28 PM
The Age of UnreasonCharles HandyHandy maintains that discontinuous change requires discontinuous, upside-down thinking, and discusses the need for new kinds of organizations, new approaches to work, new types of schools, and new ideas about the nature of our society.The Motivation to WorkFrederick HerzbergFrederick Herzberg and his staff based their motivation―hygiene theory on a variety of human needs and applied it to a strategy of job enrichment that has widely influenced motivation and job design strategies. 'Motivation to Work' is a landmark volume that is of enduring interest to sociologists, psychologists, labor studies specialists, and organization analysts.Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions HappenJames MarchThis valuable textbook by one of the seminal figures in the history of organizational decision making will be required reading for a new generation of scholars, managers, and other decision makers.The Change MastersRosabeth Moss KanterThe Change Masters looks behind...
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