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Library of Business Book Summaries from A to F Business Books A-F G-M N-S T-Z 17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player A follow-up companion reader to The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, here is a clear character profile of the ideal Team Player. Maxwell stresses some main qualities of a good team player: intentional, or she is focused on the big picture, relational, focused on others, selfless, willing to take a backseat for the good of the team, and tenacious - works hard to overcome obstacles, no matter what. 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success Take investment lessons from the expert. O'Neil started out with $500 just out of college, and by age 30 had purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and opened his own investment management research firm. In 1963, he was the first to create a computerized database for stock market research that is used today by 400 major US institutions. With decades of investing experience, the author shares the lessons he has learned in a simple question-and-answer format, for those who may be first-time investors getting their feet wet, and to improve the performance of those who may have been playing the market for some time. Learn common-sense strategies, know when to buy and sell at the right time, and successfully manage your own portfolio. Your journey to financial security and freedom begins here. Accelerated Learning This package is a combination of six cassette tapes along with a workbook and other handouts. Colin Rose is a British expert on accelerated learning techniques and Brian Tracy is a well-known U.S. peak performance coach. According to Rose and Tracy, intelligence is not fixed, it is like a muscle that can be developed, and learning how to learn is the key. The authors cite several examples where corporations have successfully used these techniques to improve their employees learning capacity. For example, one major telephone company cut their training in half with some of the accelerated learning techniques described in this package. Automatic Millionaire What if someone told you that for ten dollars a day you can be a millionaire-- roughly the cost of a pack of cigarettes or the price of a Latte and a muffin? In addition to that, you neither need will power nor budget-- all you need is at least an hour to put everything in motion. To good to be true? The McIntyres, an "average" American couple, did it. David Bach outlines the philosophies on becoming The Automatic Millionaire:
Bargaining for Advantage This book is a guide to better negotiation practice, not a substitute for it. It will show that while negotiation is not a rocket science, it is not simple intuition either. No matter who you are, your intuition will fail you in important bargaining situations. To improve, you need to shed your assumptions about the process and open yourself to new ideas. The approach to negotiation this book uses is called Information-Based Bargaining. This approach focuses on three main aspects of negotiation: solid planning and preparation before you start, careful listening so you can find out what the other side really wants, and attending to the "signals" the other party sends through his or her conduct once bargaining gets underway. Be The Leader Based on Paul Thornton's Three C Leadership Model: Challenge, Confidence, and Coaching, this book guides potential business leaders on how to tap into their leadership roles and realize their visions. Challenge the status quo. Build confidence in others. Coach people on what to do and how to do it. Beating The Street Peter Lynch ran the Fidelity Magellan Fund for more 20 years, during which time Magellan was the number one ranked general equity fund in America. His books One Up on Wall Street and Beating the Street are filled with his accumulated wisdom and in Beating the Street he gives a fairly detailed account of how he did his analysis. Brand Storm The Internet is just the beginning of the Information Age, the gateway to the new Human economy. Brand Storm explores the future of business in a very meaningful, hopeful, creative, and visual way. This is a business book that reads like a life plan. Divided into three main parts: Ideas, Actions, and Dreams, Brand Storm aims to inspire, to reach out and touch our emotions as well as our reason. Brands, dreams, and values should be integrated into your life so you live and breathe customers. People should be at the heart of every thing you do. Boring old companies that do not recognize the power of their customers are dinosaurs and will meet their inevitable extinction. The communication and technology we have today democratize the economy into "one vote, one voice" per consumer. These are just the baby steps toward a future where the brand becomes very personal. Any betrayal of a customer's trust means she will have her revenge. Heed the Brand Storm message and be warned. Brand to the Bone A successful marketing consultant and branding specialist shares his expertise and experience on ways to develop and grow a small business into a big brand. This is a "must" read book for those who want their products or services to become the brand leader in their category. The author gives easy-to-do pointers that serve as keys to improving the company's bottom line, thus creating brand equity and incremental shareholder value in the long term. Embracing the philosophy that customer is the heart of any business, the author talks about building relationship and partnership with customers for a lifetime by applying his own version of CRM (Customers Really Matter), and in the process, experience tremendous and lasting growth. Build a Great Team! The job of managing a team - from hiring, selecting, training, building, and keeping enthusiasm up constantly - finally becomes a bit easier with these helpful guidelines. This book covers everything from basic motivating, to how to handle people during a crisis. Straightforwardness, a firm resolve, and a huge dose of diplomacy are just some of the things a manager needs to lead and keep the team working like a well-oiled machine. Even the most difficult situation -like sacking a team member is played out here, so you know exactly what you're supposed to do. This is a real team how-to manual that is a quick and easy read! Building Brandwidth The authors assert that marketing is marketing-- that marketing online takes as much discipline and work as it does offline. Calm At Work Work can often be one of the most stressful situations in our lives. We have to work with people that we don't necessarily have anything in common with and perform boring and repetitive tasks. In the United States and other parts of the world, you are supposed to look busy at all times. This can add to the stress since you feel like you are being watched constantly. Calm at Work offers over 100 practical exercises and techniques to help you remain calm at work. Here are the main ideas offered in both Calm at Work, along with Wilson's condensed Little Book of Calm at Work. Contrarian Investment Strategies
David Dreman is the chairman of Dreman Value Advisors, and his Kemper-Dreman High Return Fund is one of the all time highest returning funds in America since its debut in 1988. His strategy is based on an understanding of investor psychology, in particular using the insight that the market overprices popular issues and oversells unpopular ones, in short he is a contrarian investor. His book Contrarian investment Strategies: The Next Generation is another very well written book with specific strategies and reams of data to back it all up. If you liked "What Works on Wall Street" and "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" then this is another book with a very similar angle of attack. It is a fairly big book, running over 400 pages, rivaling Malkiel's great tome. Creativity In Business "Live your life like a work of art". Business is actually a very creative form of art. It integrates creativity and imagination (business plans and ideas) people skills, organizational skills, and requires a focus and drive that many artists possess. This book guides you to reach down to your core Essence - your inner creative resource that can fuel your personal and professional life. Co-opetition Discover Your Sales Strengths A huge number of books have been written about sales and finding one's road to success in achieving exceptional sales performance. Like fresh-off-the-press diet book bestsellers, they promise spectacular results, but lasting improvement in the end is still hard to find. This book identifies the many myths associated with exceptional sales and explains how believing them may negatively affect one's performance. It will also show how important it is to fit one's talents into the right job, whether it be as sales representative or sales manager. Dr. Peeling's Principles of Management Most management books on store shelves today tell chief executives how to manage people from the top, with little references available for the front line managers. This book is written for those new managers responsible for directing the bulk of the work at the bottom, where real value for the company is created everyday. Maybe you are managing a team for the first time, and you don't know exactly how to deal with people. This book offers useful guidelines on handling thorny issues, from sexual harassment and misbehavior, to office sex, and termination. Perhaps people problems are not your area of expertise? This is the book that Dr. Peeling wishes had been around when he was a new manager who needed advice. Share it with your colleagues and train for great leadership today! Effective Networking for Professional Success In an uncertain world where we are all effectively self-employed, networking skills make all the difference for freelancers, job changers, and career climbers. Increase your chances of landing that all-important job or business contract. EVEolution For any business to survive today, it needs to understand how to market to women. The fact is women make 80% of all purchasing decisions, are brand loyalists, have complex, multiple lives because of ever-increasing responsibilities: from running households, to caring for aging parents, raising children, and managing thriving careers and businesses. Make women join your brand, build lasting, meaningful relationships with them, recognize their ever-growing needs, both personal and professional, and EVEolutionize your business before it's too late! Failing Forward Failing forward tells you how to look at life's setbacks
and learn from your mistakes. If you haven't failed at anything,
it means you haven't really taken a risk at anything. Failures are
only as bad as you perceive them to be. Life is much better when
you live, and try, and fail. Living requires failing every now and
then. First Things First The best-selling author of "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" sheds light on the perennial problem of personal time management, and achieving the balance between nurturing rich relationships while maintaining a career. Changing our paradigms from "getting the urgent things done" as the First Things in our lives, Covey enlightens us on how we can see where True North is on our life compass. It isn't about how fast you're going; it's where you're headed that matters. Understand these lessons and organize your priorities so you spend more time on the real First Things in life. First, Break All The Rules THE BEST MANAGERS REJECT CONVENTIONAL WISDOM. THIS BOOK DESCRIBES THEIR PERSPECTIVE AND HOW THEY KEEP TALENTED EMPLOYEES. In 25 years, the Gallup Organization interviewed over 80,000 managers from different companies. This mammoth research project grew from two basic questions: FISH! WORK MADE FUN GETS DONE! Follow This Path This book shows that the ultimate solution to reversing the current leadership trends of margin slashing, accounting trickery, and shareholder hoodwinking is to run an organization that can maintain and expand its customer base without slashing prices and without reducing its fiscal integrity. In the end, the success of your organization does not depend on your understanding of economics, or organizational development, or marketing. It depends on your understanding of psychology: how each individual employee and client connects with your company. Click below for more books: * All Economic and Policy books are complimentary |
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