This paper reviews the latest learning and development books across the globe and pinpoints practical implications.
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Purpose
This paper reviews the latest learning and development books across the globe and pinpoints practical implications.
Design/methodology/approach
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
Findings
Driven to Lead Good, Bad and Misguided Leadership is the author's effort to create a unified and accurate model of human behavior and leadership. Paul Lawrence has spent a lifetime researching and writing across the social science fields while teaching at Harvard Business School. In his previous book, Driven, he introduced the concept of four drives that explain human behavior. This book applies that concept to the practice of leadership. Dr Lawrence calls his theory The Renewed Darwinian Theory of Human Behavior and Leadership, finding deep insights from Charles Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man. In 300 pages, this book shows how disciplines from cultural anthropology and psychology to biology and economics can come together to explain human evolution, the current state of the world, and the way forward.
Practical implications
The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.
Originality/value
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to digest format.
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Reviews the latest learning and development books across the globe and pinpoints practical implications.
Abstract
Purpose
Reviews the latest learning and development books across the globe and pinpoints practical implications.
Design/methodology/approach
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
Findings
Organizational development students and practitioners will find familiar theories and concepts presented in a new and thought provoking way. The authors challenge the conventional wisdom of dichotomies and two‐ends‐of‐a‐spectrum by showing how creativity and innovation happen as individuals move along a continuum, adapting as need and circumstance dictate.
Practical implications
Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.
Originality/value
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to digest format.
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Reviews the latest learning and development books across the globe and pinpoints practical implications.
Abstract
Purpose
Reviews the latest learning and development books across the globe and pinpoints practical implications.
Design/methodology/approach
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
Findings
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a thoughtful and provocative book about thinking. It takes the reader through 40 years of research into how humans think, often contradicting conventional wisdom and demonstrating how pliable and easily distracted much of thinking can be. Reading it, one is challenged to question nearly everything about how the brain processes the world around it.
Practical implications
Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.
Originality/value
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to digest format.
Details
Keywords
Reviews the latest learning and development books across the globe and pinpoints practical implications.
Abstract
Purpose
Reviews the latest learning and development books across the globe and pinpoints practical implications.
Design/methodology/approach
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
Findings
Innovation is essential for organizations and individuals to meet the challenges of global change and competition. This is an easy to read, lively book that delivers on its promise to make innovation understandable and accessible. Scott Anthony writes in a conversational style and uses footnotes to add insights and personal thoughts. The book begins by explaining that the ability to innovate can be improved by studying and applying patterns. This idea, adopted from Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovators's Dilemma, serves as a guide for the book.
Practical implications:
Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.
Originality/value
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to digest format.