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Review: Crossing the Digital Faultline by Sri Manchala

A modern guru of technological and societal dynamism, author Sri Manchala delivers a powerful and cutting-edge leadership manual in Crossing the Digital Faultline: 10 Rules Of Highly Successful Leaders In Digitalization.

Laid out in four intuitively ordered sections that explain the new paradigm of leadership, outlining rules for success, defining the personality of a methodical innovator, and laying out a path for applying the book’s critical lessons, Manchala makes it easy to consume his wide breadth of knowledge. From shifting consumer preferences and new avenues of digital access to disruptive technologies, evolving supply chains, international competition, and startup culture, […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-01-05T03:08:26+02:00November 24th, 2021|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business, Leadership, Sri Manchala|

Review: The Vice Chairman’s Doctrine by Ian Domowitz

A denizen of both the academic and the corporate worlds, author Ian Domowitz offers a look at the inner workings of industry from the perspective of those tasked with leadership while being denied any specific guidance and any real authority in The Vice Chairman’s Doctrine: A Guide to Rocking the Top in Industry Version 4.0.

Receiving the role of “vice chairman” was Domowitz’s entry into the behind-the-scenes realm of corporate oversight. He soon noted that job descriptions for this title indicate that it “typically goes to a top executive who has been shafted.” Reorganization and other factors can result […]

SPR2021-08-25T04:09:28+02:00August 8th, 2021|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business, Leadership|

Review: The Authentic You by Kristina M. Holle

A human resources coach, Kristina M. Holle, has devised an original method for developing our finest qualities by looking into our emotional and psychological self-image, in The Authentic You: Unleash Your Leadership Potential.

A curious mixture of self-help and business manual, Holle combines some familiar self-help tenets with the tenets of leadership and management, which are often held separate. As one might behave much differently in an office environment than at home or with friends, it can be difficult to meld these two “selves” together, so Holle takes an interesting approach to this conflict.

Holle asserts that just as […]

SPR2021-06-15T09:05:39+02:00April 20th, 2021|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Leadership, Self-Help|

Review: Shaping the Future of Global Leadership by Salar A. Khan, MD, MBA

A well-traveled medical practitioner and executive has created a manual with global conscience for recognizing, training and electing trustworthy, admirable world leaders in Shaping the Future of Global Leadership: Finding a Peaceful Solution.

Author Khan states at the outset that he has religious beliefs but doesn’t wish to “disturb or distract” those with or without such beliefs who read his guide, but it does provide some basis for his treatise, suggesting God can also be referred to as a universal organizing principle (UOP). He asserts that among all great world religions are overarching principles for how we must live […]

SPR2020-11-13T06:04:45+02:00October 8th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Leadership, Salar A. Khan|

Review: Crossing the Digital Faultline by Sri Manchala

Sri Manchala is a transformation expert, advising business leaders about not only the shining promise of new technologies, but also the hidden faultlines under the surface, in Crossing the Digital Faultline: 10 Leadership Rules to Win in the Age of Digitalization and Uncertainty.

Manchala begins his comprehensive overview by recounting his experience in Japan in March 2011. He and associates arrived the day before a huge earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck the island nation. Observing the widespread chaos and changes, he took charge, successfully navigating through the turmoil to ensure that he and his cohort would be able to […]

SPR2021-11-24T05:55:54+02:00September 22nd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business, Leadership, Sri Manchala|

Review: Whole Mind Facilitation by Eric Meade

In Whole Mind Facilitation: How to Lead Workshops that Change People, Organizations, and the World, award-winning writer Eric Meade provides innovative and intellectually sound strategies for workshop leadership.

Meade’s thesis is simple, using the model of a house in which there are two rooms, with a basement. The rooms are Intuition and Thought, and the basement is Emotion. Meade states that to get from thought – one’s ideas and factual material regarding an issue – to intuition – one’s ability to create new ideas around that issue, one must pass through “the basement” – embracing personal motivation and insight, […]

SPR2020-08-11T03:12:08+02:00June 27th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business, Leadership|

Hidden Talents by Maryanne DiMarzo, Amy Acker and Rodica Ceslov

With decades of leadership experience between them, authors Maryanne DiMarzo, Amy Acker and Rodica Ceslov deliver a full-on master class in Hidden Talents: Practical Tools and Inspirational Stories to Unleash Higher Levels of Leadership Performance, exposing the fundamentals of leadership and stripping away the business jargon for a clear and engaging read.

The world is changing rapidly, as is business and industry, and in order for leaders to remain on the cutting edge and avoid becoming obsolete, professional evolution is necessary. The authors also understand that some skills are timeless, and must be adapted, rather than forgotten. Their book […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2019-11-20T11:07:05+02:00November 20th, 2019|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Business, Leadership|

Review: Effective Leaders and Leadership by Mildred Stallworth

In this straightforward and surefooted guide to becoming an effective leader, author Mildred Stallworth offers a compendium of ideas that can prove helpful to people in all aspects of professional and personal life in Effective Leaders and Leadership.

Leaders, Stallworth says, create a vision that others can then follow. Comparing the leader of an organization to the head of the human body, she suggests that the “head” of a group has the responsibility to think and make decisions to control the actions and directions of the group as a whole. The head literally oversees the body; if the head […]

SPR2019-05-28T11:56:23+02:00April 17th, 2019|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business, Leadership, Religion|