strategy+business: BUSINESS LITERATURE

Author's Choice: Don't Ignore the Transparency Imperative

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Nell Minow, coauthor of Corporate Governance , introduces a lesson in corporate transparency from The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win , by Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen.

Books in Brief: The Clay Feet of Management Science

by David K. Hurst — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

A review of The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong, by Matthew Stewart.

Author's Choice: Goldman's "We"-Conscious Culture

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Greg Farrell, author of Corporate Crooks: How Rogue Executives Ripped Off Americans...and Congress Helped Them Do It! , highlights the cohesive corporate culture at Goldman Sachs that is on view in The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs, by Charles D. Ellis.

Seven Chapters of Strategic Wisdom

by Walter Kiechel III — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

A shortcut to the big themes in the conversation about corporate strategy.

Books in Brief: Why "Built to Last" Companies Didn't

by David K. Hurst — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

A review of How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In, by Jim Collins.

Books in Brief: A Path to Better Decisions

by David K. Hurst — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

A review of Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, by Michael J. Mauboussin.

Books in Brief: A New Way to Look at Human Behavior

by David K. Hurst — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

A review of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, by Michael S. Gazzaniga.

Author's Choice: Charles Darwin, Management Guru

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Seth Godin, author of Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? , introduces a lesson on the role of diversity in business success from Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Your Self , by Alan M. Webber.

Author's Choice: Performance Reviews on Steroids

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Art Kleiner, author of The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management , uncovers an effective and ongoing way to create employee alignment and accountability in Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions , by Gary B. Cohen.

Author's Choice: Managing Naturally

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Walter Kiechel III, author of The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (forthcoming, March 2010), introduces an excerpt from Managing by Henry Mintzberg that proposes a more organic view of managers and their work.

Best Business Books 2009: Leadership

by Charles Handy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Means to a Greater End

Best Business Books 2009: Globalization

by Ayesha Khanna and Parag Khanna — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Western Dominance in Decline

Best Business Books 2009: The Meltdown

by Clive Crook — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

A Wealth of Explanations

Best Business Books 2009

by Theodore Kinni — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Best Business Books 2009: s+b's Top Shelf

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Best Business Books 2009: Management

by Judith F. Samuelson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

In Search of the Silver Lining

Best Business Books 2009: Strategy

by Phil Rosenzweig — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The Capable and the Failed

Best Business Books 2009: Marketing

by Catharine P. Taylor — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Branding Goes Viral

Best Business Books 2009: Technology

by Steven Levy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Disruption 2.0

Best Business Books 2009: Biography

by James O'Toole — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Unconventional Lives

Author's Choice: Can You Support Your Successor?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Frances Hesselbein, author of Hesselbein on Leadership , introduces a lesson on one of the many pitfalls that leaders must avoid as they prepare to hand over the reins from Succession , by Marshall Goldsmith.

Author's Choice: The Successful Entrepreneur's Secret

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Scott D. Anthony, author of The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times , introduces a lesson in correcting your company's course from Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company -- and Revolutionized an Industry , by Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler.

Author's Choice: What Is -- and Isn't -- Micromanaging?

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Blythe McGarvie, author of Shaking the Globe: Courageous Decision-Making in a Changing World , introduces a lesson in raising the level of corporate discourse from Owning Up: The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask , by Ram Charan.

Books in Brief: Storytelling's Value for Management

by David K. Hurst — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A review of Management Rewired, by Charles S. Jacobs.

Books in Brief: The Upside of Downturns

by David K. Hurst — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A review of The Silver Lining, by Scott D. Anthony.

Selling Gets Complex

by Geoffrey James — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The Internet, technology, and globalization have changed this age-old game for good.

Books in Brief: What Happened at GM

by David K. Hurst — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A review of Why GM Matters, by William J. Holstein.

Books in Brief: An I Ching for Business

by David K. Hurst — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A review of Rules of Thumb, by Alan M. Webber.

Author's Choice: An Antidote to Callousness

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Barbara Kellerman, author of Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders , introduces an excerpt on dealing with opponents of change from The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Techniques for Changing Your Organization and the World , by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky.

Author's Choice: The Case against Future Shock

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Art Kleiner, author of The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management , introduces a lesson in historical perspective from Future Savvy: Identifying Trends to Make Better Decisions, Manage Uncertainty, and Profit from Change by Adam Gordon.