All Summaries
All Summaries
In Quitter, Jon Acuff challenges the idea that work is just what people do to finance the rest of their lives. Rife with personal anecdotes and pop-culture references, and aimed at readers in their 20s...
In Mastering Turbulence, Joseph McCann and John W. Selsky provide a framework for organizations to survive conditions of uncertainty, or turbulence—any surprise, shock, natural disaster, or windfall...
In Culture Shock, Will McInnes argues that the 20th-century way of doing business needs to be laid to rest. In its place, McInnes envisions a 21st-century approach to organizational dynamics that...
Leverage is nothing more than the use of debt as a replacement for capital in a transaction. It may sound innocent, but it has been used over the years as a means of amassing ill-gotten wealth. In Leverage...
Managers are too often slaves to the vertical silos depicted on organizational charts. Instead, Geary A. Rummler and Alan P. Brache argue in Improving Performance, that managers should understand and...
In Talent Leadership, John Mattone contends that the human capital asset is the most critical variable driving operational excellence. He aims to help business leaders use various methods of behavior...
In today’s hyper-connected world, traditional marketing and sales techniques no longer work on the Internet. In Valuable Content Marketing, Sonja Jefferson and Sharon Tanton argue that businesses need...
In The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation, former Apple Senior Vice President Jay Elliot and William Simon analyze the business practices of the man who once asked a potential hire, “Do...
Eli Broad’s most cherished possession, a paperweight from his wife Edythe, is inscribed with these words from George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in...
John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., 2012 In Speaking as a Leader, Judith Humphrey aims to help people become more effective leaders by learning to be more effective speakers and, just as important, to...
