Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate19 reviews Michael Schrage Harvard Business School Press, 1999 Three years on, still a great book + Readable User-Friendly Book on Innovation + Enlightening Here's the best review I can give Michael Schrage's "Serious Play": Three years on, it's consistently the first book I pull out of my bookshelf when I'm looking for ideas for presentations, thoughts on introducing new products or services, etc. His commentary on "mean-time-to-payback" is something ...             Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Sales and Transform Your Company7 reviews Tom Searcy, Barbara Weaver Smith Wiley, 2008 Tom Searcy presents a great selling model + A clear strategy for landing those big customers! + More Than a Book about Landing Big Sales + Fantastic Insight into Landing Large Accounts! + Whale Hunting is a Must Read!             Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used46 reviews Peter Block Pfeiffer, 1999 Excellent. Easily my favorite Consulting/Project Management book. + As promised + book on consulting + Best book ever written on the consulting relationship + Insightful             Flexible Product Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets3 reviews Preston G. Smith Jossey-Bass, 2007 Another excellent book from Preston Smith + First book in a new field + The Underlying Values and Principles that are Critical to Flexible Development This is the second book of Preston's that I have read, and they are both excellent books. He has his finger on the pulse of change in product development. This one, "Flexible Product Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets" is a book that describes a successful future of product ...             Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking967 reviews Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, 2007 blink...and then it's gone There's not much substance to this book. Rather than being a resource of information, it is merely a book of examples. There is no broad takeaway you can gather from it after reading except to say perhaps that many of our decisions are based on split-second thoughts. But did you really need to read ...             How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day116 reviews Michael J. Gelb Dell, 2000 Great book, but has its downsides... + How to Live a Balanced and Fulfilling Life + quick, interesting, useful + EXCELLENT Book!             Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done233 reviews Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ... Crown Business, 2002 It's a must read for CEOs + Insights into Execution as a Discipline & System + A "Must Read" for Executives + Obviously if you're going to get things done, you gotta "execute" them...             Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done233 reviews Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ... Crown Business, 2002 It's a must read for CEOs + Insights into Execution as a Discipline & System + A "Must Read" for Executives + Obviously if you're going to get things done, you gotta "execute" them...             Flexible Product Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets3 reviews Preston G. Smith Jossey-Bass, 2007 Another excellent book from Preston Smith + First book in a new field + The Underlying Values and Principles that are Critical to Flexible Development This is the second book of Preston's that I have read, and they are both excellent books. He has his finger on the pulse of change in product development. This one, "Flexible Product Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets" is a book that describes a successful future of product ...             Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking967 reviews Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, 2007 blink...and then it's gone There's not much substance to this book. Rather than being a resource of information, it is merely a book of examples. There is no broad takeaway you can gather from it after reading except to say perhaps that many of our decisions are based on split-second thoughts. But did you really need to read ...             Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Sales and Transform Your Company7 reviews Tom Searcy, Barbara Weaver Smith Wiley, 2008 Tom Searcy presents a great selling model + A clear strategy for landing those big customers! + More Than a Book about Landing Big Sales + Fantastic Insight into Landing Large Accounts! + Whale Hunting is a Must Read!             Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate19 reviews Michael Schrage Harvard Business School Press, 1999 Three years on, still a great book + Readable User-Friendly Book on Innovation + Enlightening Here's the best review I can give Michael Schrage's "Serious Play": Three years on, it's consistently the first book I pull out of my bookshelf when I'm looking for ideas for presentations, thoughts on introducing new products or services, etc. His commentary on "mean-time-to-payback" is something ...             How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day116 reviews Michael J. Gelb Dell, 2000 Great book, but has its downsides... + How to Live a Balanced and Fulfilling Life + quick, interesting, useful + EXCELLENT Book!             Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used46 reviews Peter Block Pfeiffer, 1999 Excellent. Easily my favorite Consulting/Project Management book. + As promised + book on consulting + Best book ever written on the consulting relationship + Insightful