Book review

The Chaos Imperative: How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success by Ori Brafman, Judah Pollack. From the author of “The Starfish and the spider”, which is one of my favourite books on organizational development. Chaos is good The crux of the book is that chaos is good for you. You need to create

Forget socialism, capitalism, just in time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest of it and concentrate on building organisations that accomplish the most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning. Maverick “Maverick” tells the story of the transformation of Semco into a radical and high performing

The 3 rules of corporate success are: 1. Better before cheaper, 2. Revenue before cost. 3. There’re no other rules Success study The impetus of the research for the book, was the increasing popularity over the past 30 years of “success study” business books and articles. Perhaps the most famous of these are Thomas Peters

Entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, innovation and culture are hot ticket items for my clients. So I keep an eye out on the startup books that come out on a regular basis. Covers a lot of angles The book is superb. It touches on so many books that we cover for our clients. It covers Ken Robinson (our

Filter bubble A friend (with thanks to Alan Boyd of Hoik) recommended “Filter Bubble”. Boy(d) am I impressed. It is a book that covers the impact of the introduction of personalised search. My search results on “soccer” will be very different than yours (Ajax!). And that has all kinds of consequences. Covers privacy, data, innovation, culture, the

CEOs need to become Chief Experience Officers if you believe Brian Solis. Experience as the future of selling. Brian Solis is the author of “Engage” and “The end of business as usual” (#WTF). In my view, he is one of the best in social media and marketing. #WTF is an extension of “Engage” and “The

Impact Impact = Contrast X (Reach + Exposure + Articulation + Trust + Echo) Trust agents Written by the authors of “trust agents”. A book that was ahead of its time. Common sense It started well. The equations are top notch (and common sense). And that is the point. The whole book is common sense.

Innovation is hard Why does innovation not work? Why do the big companies spend the millions and the young start-ups with no money walk away with the big price? Below are the lessons from 2 books and also a suggestion of the book to use, which is “Business Model  Innovation Factory”. “Creative intelligence” “Creative intelligence”