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In the tradition of "Emotional Intelligence" and "Now, Discover Your Strengths," Daniel H. Pink gives us a look at what it takes to excel these days. "A Whole New Mind" describes the six essential aptitudes that Pink believes professional success and personal fulfillment will depend. You may not agree with the thesis, and you may find the advice good mainly for high-flyers with MBAs in their back pockets and a few hundred thousand socked away, not the rest of us working stiffs, but the ideas are provocative and the exercises are great fun. "WOW" experiences guaranteed. Read it: change the way you look at the things around you.
If you're interested in management research and management thinking, you must read this book by Phil Rosenzweig, Professor at IMD. It's provocative, thoughtful, well-written, compelling, richly researched. You will never read another management book with the same eyes. You will never listen to another management guru with the same ears. As Phil says, "The Halo Effect is an unusual business book: it offers a sharp critique of current management thinking, exposing many of the errors and mistaken ideas that pervade the business world, and suggests a more accurate way to think about company performance. I've tried to make it lively, informal, provocative, and accessible to a wide audience."