All Summaries

All Summaries

 
Leverage Denninger, Karl John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2012 Economics & Finance

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...

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The Secret Language of Leadership Denning, Stephen John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2007 Communication, Leadership, Management, Personal Growth
The power to communicate a complex idea or engender transformational change in a company and its people is a key characteristic of a good leader. Generating enduring enthusiasm through compelling storytelling...
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The Leader's Guide to Radical Management Denning, Stephen Jossey-Bass , 2010 Leadership, Management

The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management by Stephen Denning dismantles traditional management systems and builds a mental model of management based on a more accurate and effective understanding of how...

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The Innovator's Way Denning, Peter J. | Dunham, Robert The MIT Press , 2010 Innovation

Innovation is critical for personal, business, and economic success. Although thousands of books have been printed on meeting the challenges of innovation, the August 2005 issue of Businessweek reports an innovation...

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Lost Knowledge DeLong, David W. Oxford University Press , 2005 Human Resources, Management, Productivity

The fact that baby boomers are retiring is probably news to no one. What is not widely publicized is that employees who have spent their entire career, or most of their career, with one company or organization, are...

 
 
Designing the Smart Organization Deiser, Roland Jossey-Bass , 2009 Business Strategy, Leadership Development

Roland Deiser’s Designing the Smart Organization tackles the challenges of initiating corporate learning programs in order to compete in today’s global market. Corporate learning programs are a...

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What To Say To Get What You Want Deep, Sam | Sussman, Lyle Addison Wesley , 1992 Communication, Human Resources, Personal Growth

Deep and Sussman present a work characterized by clarity, simplicity, and directness. However, its accessibility does not at all diminish its authoritativeness or its value to the professional at the highest level....

 
 
Retiring the Generation Gap Deal, Jennifer J. Jossey-Bass , 2007 Diversity, Relationships

Conventional stereotypes believe that the generation gap runs deep, creating insurmountable misunderstandings and conflicts among colleagues. How is it possible for employees from different generations to work together...

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The Value Network De Rose, Louis J. Amacom , 1994 Customer Focus, Marketing

A new definition of value that explains how to create and add value within each of the key processes of marketing, engineering, acquisition, manufacturing, and customer service, while simultaneously integrating these...

 
 
Obstacles Welcome de la Vega, Ralph Thomas Nelson , 2009 Business Biographies, Leadership, Major Works

In Obstacles Welcome, Ralph de la Vega describes in rich and fascinating biographical detail how adversity and obstacles present opportunities to enrich and transform our business and personal lives....

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