You pick, I review

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  Michael Fitzgerald01/09/08 Report as spam
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  my picks

  I'm interested in:
  
  Creative Capital
  The Power of Unreasonable People
  Followership
  Becoming a Resonant Leader
  Talent on Demand
  Rocking that Boat
  
  Michael Fitzgerald

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  GenghisKhan2401/09/08 Report as spam
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  RE: You pick, I review

  The three that jumped out at me:
  
  
  1) The Khanna book on India/China
  2) Cappelli on talent
  3) "Predictable Surprises"

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  cstainton@...01/09/08 Report as spam
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  RE: You pick, I review

  The Power of Unreasonable People
  Predictable Surprises
  
  Thank you

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  An Expat in France01/11/08 Report as spam
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  "Rocking the Boat" please.

  I'd love to read your review of "Rocking the Boat." In my opinion, it's the only book worth keeping on the list. Please let us know what you think of it.
  
  Leadership...? Innovation...? Snore.......
  
  I'll save you several hundred pages of reading on Leadership:
  
  Leaders have an authehticity that can't be "taught;" You don't have to be a good leader to be an effective manager, but if you have to read a book on how to be a leader, you'll never be one. The foundations of true leadership can be found in how the individual lives his/her life, and isn't something that is switched on or off depending one whether one is in the office or at home. Leaders aren't necessarily motivational speakers; leaders influence. That means saying and/or doing the "right" thing... expressing the "right" sentiment... at the right time. That's how you influence people, and that's what leaders do.
  
  ...nuff said.
  
  
  RE: Innovation:
  
  "Innovation" has become an over-exposed buzzword for marketers and CXO speech writers who want to sound like their company is on the leading edge. There's so much static around both of this topics that any "new" material is suspect at best. While there are ways to foster cultures of "innovation" in the workplace, the biggest challenge lies not in generating new ideas, but in getting people to accept, embrace and develop those ideas. That makes Change Management a more relevant topic in my mind.
  
  End of song.

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  Michael Fitzgerald01/17/08 Report as spam
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  Re:

  I do like a skeptic! Spoken like someone who has seen a few too many books that promise epiphanies.
  
  I think leadership books have their value in exposing people to different styles of leading. Such books can also spark people to adapt their behavior. Sure, there's instinctive, rise-to-the-occasion leadership, but there are other contexts for leadership. I've talked to few leaders that didn't learn something about leadership either from someone else or from something they read.
  
  As for innovation, again, I know a lot of it is pablum. And the word is mushy, and all too often innovation is just another word for tweaking. I'm not sure I don't think you're using change management as a synonym for innovation, though.
  
  thanks for the great comment.
  
  Michael

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  elliottng01/29/08 Report as spam
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  RE: You pick, I review

  I'll take Billions of Entrepreneurs for "one million dollars" . A quick rant: why is the Bnet registration so onerous? this is clearly a print publication approach toward building online community and followership. If I didn't personally know this blog author and the quality of his writing and thinking, I would not bother to even participate in this discussion. I comment on a lot of blogs and don't see why I should fill out a huge subscriber information card with all the preferences and also why I was opted in to ANY newsletters...I immediately opted out of them. I'm sure the content is great, just don't force me to take it all right now. Sorry for the rant but someone at Bnet needs to hear this from the viewer base. And there is no better way to do that than to have a "naked conversation" about it out in comments. Thanks for listening, and thanks for the invitation to have you review a book!

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  Michael Fitzgerald01/30/08 Report as spam
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  The trouble with registering for bnet

  Hi Elliott,
  
  Thanks for your pick, and your patience. You are not the only person who has complained to me about the registration process. I have alerted one of the powers that be, and I hope they'll be responsive.