Tony Pittarese

An interesting read that I found myself mostly agreeing with. There were a few places where I felt the author came to a particular conclusion because it fit the narrative better than other alternatives. This book is well worth reading.

I enjoyed this book, but the structure was weird. As opposed to one continuous story throughout the book, there actually are several events that were presented one after the other.

An interesting story that wasn't obvious in its conclusion.

Although there are elements of the discussion that I disagreed with, overall this was a useful read. The importance of cross-discipline involvement in invention was demonstrated as key.

Great ideas on the value of building effective work teams and using them to drive organizational change. The power of productive disagreement as a part of effective leadership is highlighted.

Interesting ideas in the later chapters. Some interesting thoughts on the changing imperatives in education.

Interesting ideas. Like the overall theme. Support could have been stronger.

I listened to an abridged copy of the book, so it was very brief. There were some great ideas here. More amplification (such as I suspect is contained in the full book) would have improved the presentation.

Interesting points in this book. Changed my perspective on some topics in a positive way. The book itself is a bit odd in that most of it is told by way of a illustrative story. A more straightforward presentation would have reduced the content of the book by 75%, but it might not have been as persuasive.

Wonderful book from a historic perspective, but very dated.

Well written and interesting. Rather out of date now.

This is not a “light reading” book, but the way the content is broken up (since it is a collection of speeches) makes it easy to read this book in pieces over time. After reading the first few speeches, I almost gave up on the book since I didn't find the subject matter particularly interesting. I persisted, though, and found that about half-way through the book I was genuinely interested and enjoying the presentation.

It is amazing to note the many things Drucker saw far ahead of his time. What I found particularly useful was his observation–made almost 2 decades ago–that a problem with enterprise information systems is that they tell you everything you might want to know about the inside of your company, but nothing at all about things external. Although the speeches were made well before the creation of Twitter, Facebook, or the like, his speech caused me for the first time to see real value in activities such as sentiment analysis which attempts to bring external points of view into an organization.

Not my favorite Jack Reacher book, but a good “fun” read.

Exceptional book. Starts slow, and I almost set it aside for a later read. Once it picked up steam, though, it was tremendous. I listened to this as an audio book, and I may need to pick it up in print in a couple of years to re-read and highlight the insights.

Generally love Bugliosi books, but this book adds nothing new or of great interest to the JFK assassination narrative