Re-Imagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age
By Tom Peters
If you’re a Tom Peters fan, you won’t be disappointed with Re-Imagine – a cornucopia of ideas about the new way of doing business and managing your career. If this is the first time you come across the author, you’ll either love him or hate him. His unorthodox writing style – lots of punctuations, all caps phrases, plenty of rants, and stream-of-consciousness approach – can be jarring, even annoying at times. Here you’ll find photos, sidebars, bold colors, hyperlinks, and in-your-face design. This is a great summary of what he’s been preaching for years – think services and solutions, not products; think professional service firms, not departments; think experiences and dreams, not transactions; think design, not just quality. It’s over-the-top at times, but it’s certainly stimulating.

Readability: 3 out of 5
Usefulness: 5 out of 5

Available at NBS Best Sellers

One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success
By Marci Alboher
Anyone who has juggled two or more careers at the same time can relate much with this book. For those contemplating on taking on a sideline or side business, the numerous stories of so-called slash careerists should inspire you. The author does attempt to provide a practical how-to side but too many anecdotes somehow fail to bring a more structured approach to learning. She does tackle a lot of real issues, and certainly you can pick up a good number of tips. But take this book more as your muse – to make you feel good that there are a lot like you out there (if you already have a slash career) or to make you dream of the possibilities (if you’re just thinking of taking this alternative career approach).

Readability: 3 out of 5
Usefulness: 4 out of 5

Available at NBS Best Sellers