Customer Review: I come to this book eight years after it was first published, and with all the accolades and superb reviews that it has already accummulated, my primary focus here, apart from flagging the book for those that follow my reviews, is to suggest that it is one of the finest overviews available and... more info
Customer Review: This is another great book in the HBR paperback series. There are several very helpful article/chapters in this book; each one taken alone is worth more than the cost of the book. The article by Argyris, "Teaching Smart People to Learn," is quite insightful. Argyris explains why smart, highly... more info
Customer Review: Around 1990, business reached one of those tipping points that change everything: You could now add knowledge, expertise, and capability better and more cheaply by involving those outside your organization than you could by building up your organization internally. Authors John Hagel III and... more info
In this volume, one in a series of anthologies of articles previously published in the Harbard Business Review, the reader is provided with eight brilliant analyses of how to establish and then nourish innovative thinking entreprise-wide. No brief commentary such as this can do full justice to... more info
Customer Review: This is another great book in the extraordinary Harvard Business Review (HBR) paperback series. It is one of the books I highly recommend. This book begins with an outstanding article on communities of practice by Wenger & Snyder. If you can't read Wenger & Snyder's entire book, be sure... more info
Customer Review: The word storytelling evokes soft, touchy-feely emotions about family, friends, and yesteryear. What do any of these things have to do with organizations? If you allow yourself to get past the title you'll find that storytelling has a lot to do with how things get done in organizations, big and... more info
Customer Review: Although Judy Breck might call it thinking outside the "blob" instead of the box, her book offers avenues for those of us seeking ways out of the failing traditional education system. Ms. Breck's book is part social analysis, part technical explanation, part future scope, and a great deal of... more info
Customer Review: The best decisions are always those which create the highest ROI. Certainly companies that do no make good decisions end up with marginal ROI when compared to those who make better decisions. Anyways, that was just my take on how this book was written. The longer a consultant talks or causes... more info
Customer Review: The value of a book of reprints mined from HBR's rich archive depends on the quality of selection by the miner. This is the best such anthology I have seen, with an excellent introduction which deserves very careful reading. To quote an early paragraph: "To do things differently, we must learn... more info
