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New Book Review: "Data Science for Business"

New book review for Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know About Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking, by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, O'Reilly Media, 2013, reposted here: As the authors discuss in the preface to this text, the content presented here provides a conceptual foundation

New Book Review: "The Purpose Economy"

New book review for The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community is Changing the World, by Aaron Hurst, Elevate, 2014, reposted here: The author believes that we as a society are in the early days of what he calls the "Purpose Economy", a

New Book Review: "Revenue and the CMO"

New book review for Revenue and the CMO: How Marketing Will Impact Revenue Through Big Data & Social Selling, by Glenn Gow, Crimson Marketing, 2013, reposted here: This book is all about how the Chief Marketing Officer, and those with similar roles, can bridge the gap between creating more sales

New Book Review: "No Better Time"

New book review for No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet, by Molly Knight Raskin, Da Capo Press, 2013, reposted here: The back cover description of this book as "a riveting personal and high-tech story, with a heartbreaking 9/11

New Book Review: "Leadership Conversations"

New book review for Leadership Conversations: Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders, by Alan S. Berson and Richard G. Stieglitz, Jossey-Bass, 2013, reposted here: The content of this book centers around different types of leadership conversations: to build relationships, to develop others, to make decisions, and to take

New Book Review: "The End of Competitive Advantage"

New book review for The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business, by Rita Gunther McGrath, Harvard Business Review Press, 2013, reposted here: While the term "competitive advantage" can be defined in more than one way, it can be argued

New Book Review: "Team Geek"

New book review forTeam Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others, by Brian W. Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: Arguably the best text on the software development process that focuses on the individual contributor within the context of a team.

New Book Review: "Playing to Win"

New book review for Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, by A. G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business Review Press, 2013, reposted here: The content of this book focuses on the transformation of Procter & Gamble (P&G) between 2000 and 2009, and discusses the approach

New Book Review: "Ethics of Big Data"

New book review for Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation, by Kord Davis and Doug Patterson, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: A very much needed, extremely well written essay on what the authors call the "forcing function" of Big Data – a push to consider serious

New Book Review: "Enterprise Analytics"

New book review for Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data, edited by Thomas H. Davenport, FT Press, 2012, reposted here: This book is a collection of eighteen essays on enterprise analytics by fourteen different authors, ten written or co-written by the editor, who also wrote "