Chi Chi Chia! A Review of “Grow your own Leaders”

William C. Byham, Audrey B. Smith and Matthew J. Paese have written a power point…er…book detailing how to identify, develop and retain top leadership talent. In their very structured book entitled Grow Your Own Leaders, the authors provide a lesson plan to ch’ ch’ chia leaders. The process begins with their proposal of [...]

If You’re Not a Right-Brainer You’ll be Left Behind - A Review of Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind

Daniel Pink is the author of A Whole New Mind, in which he proposes a huge theory. If you are a right-brained individual you will love this book. If you are a left-brained individual you will fear what Pink has to say. Just to clarify, for those of you who have misplaced [...]

Searching for Talent: A Review of Talent Is Overrated

Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin is an exploration of how great performers achieve their amazing feats in a variety of different fields. Tracing the careers and accomplishments of world-class talents such as Mozart, Jeff Immelt, Bill Gates, and even Chris Rock, Colvin hypothesizes that too much emphasis is placed on innate talent when [...]

Good to Great is good, but not…what’s the word I’m looking for?

Steve Tomasiewicz contributor
Good to Great is a seminal book by Jim Collins that provides an empirical approach that attempts to determine the often elusive practices of successful companies. It is a review and analysis of timeless business principles and stresses that the lessons found within its pages are true regardless of a “new economy” [...]