All Summaries

All Summaries

 
The Extraordinary Coach Zenger, John H. | Stinnett, Kathleen McGraw-Hill , 2010 Leadership Development

The majority of today’s leaders believe that they are providing a sufficient amount of coaching to their employees, but studies show that the “coachees” disagree. In The Extraordinary Coach, John H....

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The Extraordinary Leader Zenger, John H. | Folkman, Joseph McGraw-Hill , 2002 Leadership

Because the important topic of leadership has been explored and expounded upon ad infinitum, by a multitude of academicians, consultants, and leaders, themselves, there is no dearth of contrasting and complementary...

 
 
The Extraordinary Leader Zenger, John H. | Folkman, Joseph R. McGraw-Hill , 2009 Leadership

In The Extraordinary Leader, John H. Zenger and Joseph R. Folkman explore what it takes to develop poor and average leaders into extraordinary leaders, defined as those leaders occupying the top ten...

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The Facebook Effect Kirkpatrick, David Simon & Schuster Paperbacks , 2010 Business Biographies, Technology

In The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick delves into the life of entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg and explores how he created a company that has forever changed the way the world uses the Internet....

 
 
The Failure of Risk Management Hubbard, Douglas W. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2009 Business Strategy, Productivity

The Failure of Risk Management shows readers how to identify and fix the most common problems in risk management. Ineffective risk management methods, often touted as “best practices,” are passed from...

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The Female Advantage Helgesen, Sally Currency Doubleday , 1990 Diversity, Leadership, Management

As the world evolves, we need to understand what the world will be like as women come to have more and more impact in the public realm. Thus, The Female Advantage attempts to answer the small questions...

 
 
The Female Vision Helgesen, Sally | Johnson, Julie Berrett-Koehler Publishers , 2010 Diversity

Women and men have different perspectives on the world and on how they experience it, but business organizations have traditionally focused on and rewarded only male-centric points of view. A woman’s unique perceptions...

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The Fifth Discipline Senge, Peter M. Broadway Books , 2006 Human Resources, Major Works

In The Fifth Discipline, Peter M. Senge explores how an organization’s capacity to learn can be enhanced by the practice of five disciplines. The first discipline is personal mastery; it is a personal...

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The Financial Aid Handbook Stack, Carol | Vedvik, Ruth Career Press , 2011 Economics & Finance

In The Financial Aid Handbook, Carol Stack and Ruth Vedvik draw on their combined 70 years of experience in the college admission and financial aid industry to offer an insider’s look at the financial...

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The Financial Behavior of Japanese Corporations Ballon, Robert | Tomita, Iwao Kodansha International , 1989 Global Business

The Japanese government has long played a central role in fostering industrial development, seeing it as essential to Japan's prosperity and national strength. Corporate objectives are focused on market share and...

 
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