The Net and the Butterfly Book Review: MGMT 601 Assignment

This report is a comprehensive review of the book "The Net and the Butterfly" by Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack, focusing on the concepts of breakthrough thinking for personal and professional development. The review analyzes the book's purpose, which is to inspire innovative thinking and personality growth. It examines the intended audience, the authors' qualifications, and the book's credibility, including its references and authenticity. The report also assesses the book's objectivity, currency, and coverage of the topic. The review highlights the authors' expertise in leadership and innovation, the book's use of metaphors, and its relevance to fostering new ideas and business opportunities. The assignment fulfills the requirements of a book review for a strategy course, providing a detailed analysis of the book's content and its implications for personal and professional growth, including the application of breakthrough thinking in a business context.

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Review of the Book “The Net and the Butterfly”
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The book that will be reviewed in this essay is “The Net and the Butterfly” by authors
Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack (Cabane & Pollack, 2017). The book deals with the
question “How breakthrough thinking can accelerate personal growth and professional
development”, the authors throughout the book with the help of some figures of speech such as
similes and metaphors, explain the way to personal development. They book mainly focuses on
the personal development of an individual with the help of breakthrough thinking. According to
the authors Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack, through the practice of breakthrough thinking
some kind of individual development is possible. The title of the book “The Net and the
Butterfly” also has significance, as according to the authors some of the people who actually
have breakthrough thoughts are like butterflies, they are elusive and magnificent. The main
purpose of the book is to inspire breakthrough thinking and the personality development that
occurs as a result of the breakthrough thinking.
The purpose of the book “The Net and the Butterflies” is to inspire the people to think
beyond the borders, to think deeply about a business or an issue that can lead to some kind of
breakthrough in their life. The audience of the book is anyone who is inspired to do anything
innovate anything new. The book is intended for the people who are looking for newer
opportunities to a start a business in any field. The book directly does not state the purpose in
form a statement or directly, through the use of this metaphors and similes throughout the book
the book tries to show that how innovate and new thinking help in the creation of business
opportunities although they directly do not talk about the intention or who the book is meant for
but while reading the audience will realize that the book is directed towards the people the who
are looking for an opportunity to create new things. The purpose of the book is indirectly stated
as the book subtly talks about the effect of breakthrough thinking.

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The authors of the book “The Net and the Butterfly” has been written by Olivia Fox
Cabane and Judah Pollack. Olivia Fox Cabane is an American writer, executive coach and public
speaker. Her education background is of law; she attended the Pantheon-Sorborne University
(Sandberg & Moreman, 2015). During her time at the university she started gathering material on
leadership and social skills and later she used those skills to give lectures on business and
leadership. She has till date written two books, her first book was “The Charisma Myth” and her
second book is “The Net and The Butterfly” which she co-authored with Judah Pollack. Cabane
gives keynote speeches to the Fortune 500 companies and she also serves as an executive coach
to the leaders of various companies and the heirs to the fortunate businessmen around the world
(Bhargava, 2015). The main topics that she talks about are charisma, leadership, dealing with
difficult people and self-esteem and self-confidence. Cabane teaches many courses in various
universities and has lead a lot many workshops on the above mentioned topic. Cabane has been
featured in many popular magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times
among others. She has written for magazines such as Forbes and the Huffington Post. In all her
books Cabane have used the concepts of cognitive behavioral theory (Pottruck, 2014). The book
is co-authored by Judah Pollack, he is considered to be an expert in the field of leadership and
innovation. He has closely worked with the US Special Forces, Generals and the Red Team
University. He has also worked with clients such as Airbnb, Sonos, Google and IDEO.org. His
specialty lies in the field of founders and founder cultures and the transformation they make into
executive and scaled organizations. Judah Pollack has co-authored a book name “The Chaos
Imperative: How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness and Success.” The
book “The Net and the Butterfly have been published by Penguin Publishing Group. The book
has been written by authors who have serious knowledge in the field of business and leadership

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and this book is also about innovation and breakthrough and the authors have a lot of experience
in this field.
The book is not based on specifics and data, the book is about the experiences that lead a
person to have breakthrough thinking and the book has been based on data from primary or
secondary sources, the book deals with the ways in which innovative thinking affects a human
being and the way personality development occurs through innovative thinking. The book gives
different ways in which the innovative thinking helps and why people should pursue it. The book
is not based on statistics; it deals with the way people think and draws evidences from cognitive
theory. The book has been cited 4 times from Google Scholar and hence it is authentic, the
information has been given out by experts so it is not fake or false, it has some merit and it is
used by other scholars in other works but it is not based on data and statistics, it is a general
statement not a data based research, this book talks about the implications of innovative thinking
and the way it helps to think and analyze a mater and then only it leads to a breakthrough.
The experience that I have gained from this book is that breakthrough thinking is always
encouraged. Breakthrough thinking always helps develop a person’s personality. In my office
this book will help me, the work that I do, I will try to do it in a more innovative way. Every day
the work might get monotonous but if I think out of the box, the work will become more
interesting.
The information is not biased as they book deals with the information that helps produce
a breakthrough, there is nothing that is from the perspective of any man. This book given general
information and it is meant to inspire the readers with regards to having a breakthrough and then
new thinking, the book tries to encourage everyone to innovate something new and develop their
personality through the process. The book is mostly opinions of the author; it is not an argument

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or statistical research. As the name suggest the book is about the net and the butterfly, the books
uses these objects as metaphors for hard work and success, it says that it is not enough to have a
net, in order to catch a butterfly the person needs to put on more effort so that he/she can catch
the butterfly. The net is not enough, this means that the only thinking about innovative ideas is
not enough, the person needs to put in a lot of effort, a lot of hard work otherwise the goal will
not be achieved. The information in the book is enough credible as the authors have a lot of
experience in the field of leadership and success and hence the information that are provided can
be said to be reliable and if someone who wishes to start something new they can follow the
book and it is supposed to yield results (Stojanović-Aleksić, 2016). The book is the opinion of
the authors and is not based on statistical research hence the book is authentic and the
information that are provided are also authentic. The book has been cited by many scholars
hence it can be said the information that are provided are authentic. The book deals with the
concepts of leadership and development of personality and it is the concept that the authors
pursue on a daily basis, both the writers Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack are professionals
in the field of leadership and professional development hence the book is authentic from the
point of view of the readers.
The book has been published in the year 2017, hence it can be said the book is recent,
the books talks about the concepts of breakthrough thinking and personality development
through the use of different figures of speech like the metaphors and the similes, the book will
help anybody who wants to study about the new innovation and how to start it, the book is very
much relevant and can be used at any time by anyone so the book is current and relevant.
The book is in the field of leadership and innovation in business, the book has covered all
aspects of the phenomena of personality development and innovative breakthrough thinking, the

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book deals with everything related to the development of personality and it covers almost
everything related to it, the book through the metaphors and similes talks about the effectiveness
of breakthrough thinking. For example, the breakthrough ‘Eureka’, they are clear and sudden and
are fully formed, applicable immediately and are most likely to arrive when it is least thought of.
This is how the book talks about personality development.
This essay concludes that the book “The Net and the Butterfly” talks about the effort that
is needed to be given in order to achieve innovative thinking and breakthrough. The book is
written by Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack and has been published Penguin publishers,
who are one of the leading publishers in the industry to book publication. The book is written
with the help of few metaphors and similes and talk in detail about the process that leads to hard
work and breakthrough.

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References
Bhargava, P. (2015). Making it all work: Understanding the interplay of psychology and
radiology. ARRS InPract.
Cabane, O. F., & Pollack, J. (2017). The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of
Breakthrough Thinking. Penguin.
Pottruck, D. S. (2014). Stacking the deck: How to lead breakthrough change against any odds.
John Wiley & Sons.
Sandberg, Y., & Moreman, C. M. (2015). Common threads among different forms of charismatic
leadership. Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, 3(1), 19.
Stojanović-Aleksić, V. (2016). Factors and sources of leadership capabilities: Experience from
Serbia. Anali Ekonomskog fakulteta u Subotici, (35), 219-235.