QUICK AND NIMBLE Creating a Corporate Culture of Innovation

From more than 140 CEO interviews, the New York Times columnist distills insights and strategies to help growing organizations avoid becoming calcified, stodgy, complacent. Jeff Gurner's narration captures the urgency of the author's lesson without sounding alarmist or dramatic. With his pleasing voice and effortless businesslike phrasing, his performance is fitting for this outstanding writing. In the first half of the book, chapters focus on creating nimble cultures while later chapters deal with how to sustain such cultures once an organization matures. All chapters begin with a lucid theme or question that is elaborated on with deftly organized quotes from a selection of CEOs. The quotes are riveting, and, with the help of the narrator's pitch-perfect delivery, they create a stirring and highly useful audio. T.W. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2014]