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Sustaining a Paradigm Shift through Sustainability

February 12, 2010

A quick book review of The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres Edwards, from new Society Publishers. If you are wondering what the Sustainability fad is all about, then this is a good starting point. Sustainability seems to be all around us, and shouted by every business and group, and this book [...]

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Leading Global Change – Book Review

February 11, 2010

This is a quick book review of Strategic Learning and Leading Change by Stephen John, from the Elsevier New Frontiers in Learning Series. John’s book has a lot of positive aspects. This is basically the story of a global company undergoing significant changes, and the role HR plays in shaping such changes. HR leaders undergoing such [...]

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Marshall Goldsmith’s Succession: Are You Ready (2009) Harvard Business Press

September 1, 2009

Marshall Goldsmith’s Succession: Are You  Ready (2009) Harvard Business Press
This book is in the Memo to the CEO series. I previously reviewed the book by Steve Kerr on rewards and was highly impressed by Kerr’s title in the series.
The Memo to the CEO series involves very small, short books. As such, they could easily be read [...]

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Reward Systems – Book Summary

May 30, 2009

Steve Kerr, former chief learning officer for General Electric and Goldman Sachs, has written a short book on Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up? The book is in the Harvard Business Press Memo to the CEO series. However, any employee at any level can learn valuable lessons from the enjoyable book.

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Book Review: Helping

May 6, 2009

Almost all of us have encountered the confusing situation where we offer someone help, but our offer of help is refused. Edgar Schein has written a new book entitled “Helping: How to offer, give and receive help,” which is available from Berrett/Kohler or online bookstores. The book analyzes the difference between effective and ineffective help [...]

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Book Review: Transforming Assessment

April 29, 2009

Transformative Assessment by W. James Popham is written for an educational audience, but has much to offer for the human resource or training and development professional. The book deals with formative assessment in education. It explains the research on formative assessment and how to build a framework for instruction based on assessment. However, given the [...]

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Book Review of Gladwell’s Outliers

April 1, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell does not need my recommendation to sell books. His new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, follows the bestsellers The Tipping Point and Blink.
For those in Psychology or Human Resource Management, some of the material Gladwell covers will be familiar. The reader will also notice that he often chooses to leave out research [...]

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Book Review on Ethical Dilemmas: The Priesthood Crisis in the Catholic Church

March 17, 2009

Recently, I received a notice that the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus had declared bankruptcy. As someone who attended Jesuit schools for 8 years, this news saddened me, especially when combined with the parish closings in Northeast Ohio.
In that context, I would recommend a 2000 book by Donald B. Cozzens entitled “The Changing [...]

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Business the Orange County Chopper Way

March 12, 2009

I am going to use this book as a textbook for one of my classes this year – Business the Orange County Chopper Way.
Who needs a:

PhD
MBA from Harvard
Consultants
Flying Fish

OK, I have not read the book yet, but I have caught the tv show. My guess, it probably does make a good read.

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Ethics and Spiritual Exercises – Book Review

February 18, 2009

This is certainly a time when ethics occupy significant space on the front pages of the business sections. As I have previously comments, it is surprising to me, although not to others, that despite trying to put a major emphasis on ethics over the last 10 years, so little has been accomplished. So I started [...]

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