All Summaries
All Summaries
Leadership can make the difference between success and failure. It entails acting through others to accomplish tasks, for there are many important goals that cannot be achieved without the help of others. However, you...
Peter F. Drucker, the “father of modern management,” promoted heroic leadership throughout his career, noting “The Army trains and develops more leaders than do all other institutions together—and with a lower casualty...
Large egos can propel businesspeople into leadership positions. Once they have done so, however, those same egos can get in the way of what all executives want to do: lead and motivate others. In Just Ask...
Even the world’s mightiest armies can suffer from a lack of leadership and dysfunctional organization, leading to catastrophic loss of life, political upheaval at home, and the ruination of careers for those...
Today, the working world is smaller and much more integrated. Home base for a business isn’t necessarily one’s home country, and leadership may often take business professionals out of their cultural comfort zones....
Influence has always mattered in the workplace, but as organizations and projects have become more complex, the need to influence others in order to complete a task has increased. In Influencing Up,...
In 1998, $74 billion worth of electronic commerce was conducted, and by the year 2002, that figure is expected to grow to $1.2 trillion. Obviously, e-commerce cannot be considered a short-lived management fad, but a...
Over the last forty years, governments and consumers around the world have accumulated massive amounts of debt. This development reveals how attitudes toward money have changed over time. In Paper Promises...
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...
Liz Coffey and her colleagues coach top CEOs, addressing the 10 primary concerns that keep them sleepless in their executive suites: developing...
