by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 1, 2008 | Book Reviews
Edited By Mike Wallace Thomas Nelson, $42.95 What is our vision for the future and how do we achieve it? This is the simple premise that inspired Mike Wallace to interview sixty of the most inspired thinkers and pose the provocative question, what is the shape of the...
by Wendy McGuinness | Jun 1, 2008 | Book Reviews
By Marcus Buckingham Free Press, RRP $29.99 Marcus Buckingham, in “The One Thing You Need to Know”, describes what common elements he sees throughout examples of outstanding achievement in managing, leadership and career success. His ideas need not be confined to the...
by Wendy McGuinness | May 1, 2008 | Book Reviews
By Howard Gardner Harvard Business School Press, RRP $61.99 Five Minds is structured in five different parts, each representing a different “mind” that will “command a premium” in the years ahead. Each of these different minds will enable people to cope with the...
by Wendy McGuinness | Mar 1, 2008 | Book Reviews
By Alan Greenspan Penguin Books, $65. The combination of an increasingly globalised world economy and a change in the way we do business is rapidly changing the way the world works. In the long term, the sheer velocity of such change could lead us to just about...
by Wendy McGuinness | Feb 1, 2008 | Book Reviews
Edited by Nikki Harre & Quentin D. Atkinson Craig Potton Publishing, $35. Climate change has become one of the central issues of our time, yet it is an issue weighed down by messages of doom and gloom and a pervasive sense of helplessness about how we should...
by Wendy McGuinness | Dec 1, 2007 | Book Reviews
By Robert F. Kennedy Penguin Books, pb $28 In this powerful indictment of George W. Bush’s White House, environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., presents an impassioned, excoriating account of how Bush and big business are plundering the environment while...
