59 Seconds, Switch, and The Silver Lining | Smart Lemming Rundown Podcast
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The Smart Lemming Rundown is your shortcut to career management success. I explain how these three recommended business books help you:
- Learn the new science of rapid change by thinking a little while changing a lot.
- Overcome the conflict between your rational mind and your emotional mind to accomplish transformational change as a person, worker, manager, or leader.
- Change your old approach to innovation, becoming a disruptive innovator.
59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a lot by Richard Wiseman
Self-help books are failing us. You’ve tried visualizing yourself to success, only to remain in the same place that you started. Wiseman outlines research that supports the new science of “rapid change.” He provides simple and elegant advice on how to make change in a small amount of time.
59 Seconds rates a 4 on a scale of 4. It’s a must-read for everyone.
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Change is hard. Change is exhausting. Psychologists have discovered that self-control is an exhaustible resource. The primary obstacle is a conflict between our rational mind and emotional mind. The rational mind wants to change something while the emotional mind loves the existing routine. The tension or conflict stymies change efforts. Chip and Dan Heath show us that we can unite the two minds, teaching us how to make the switch.
Switch rates a 4 on a scale of 4. It’s a must-read book for everyone.
The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times by Scott D. Anthony
The biggest silver lining for innovation is scarcity, which is actually a good thing. It provides constraints, which are the great enablers of innovation. Anthony offers a framework that helps your company get ready for innovation; build blockbuster businesses by spotting opportunities, formulating ideas, taking the ideas forward, and launching them; and making innovation repeatable by creating innovation structures and systems.
The Silver Lining rates a 4 on a scale of 4 for leadership and management. It’s a must-read for middle managers, directors, VPs, and CEOs.
Additional Resources
- Smart Lemming Library book review: 59 Seconds
- Smart Lemming Library book review: Switch
- Smart Lemming Library book review: The Silver Lining
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