All Summaries
All Summaries
The Virtual Manager focuses on how organizations and managers can better engage their virtual employees to create a successful workplace, even when employees are in different locations. Author Kevin...
In Conflict 101, Susan H. Shearouse helps managers better understand workplace conflict and how to respond to it. In every workplace, it is inevitable that people will clash at some point, and what...
In The Optimism Bias, Tali Sharot examines ways in which the human brain deceives its owner—to the owner’s advantage. Normal people misperceive their surroundings, choose to delay pleasure but...
In the early days of overseas expansion, companies could afford to overlook poor leadership abroad. International competition was in its infancy, performance metrics were unsophisticated, and communication was...
What will the world look like in the year 2020? Author Robert J. Shapiro believes there will be significant changes caused by globalization, aging societies, and the rise of America as a sole superpower. These...
Established in 1948, the nation of Israel is comparably very young. It also faces daunting challenges, surrounded by hostile nations, facing an Arab boycott, and boasting few natural resources. Yet today Israel is a...
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...
The Industrial Age is coming to an end, and business leaders across the globe are beginning to understand the need for revolutionary changes that will create a regenerative world. In The Necessary Revolution...
Most executives have an intense desire to achieve, and equally exhibit a strong sense of responsibility, but sometimes they overlook the fact that raising their endurance and energy levels can strengthen their...
Krazy George Henderson, on an October day in 1981 at Oakland Stadium, invented the sweep of crowd enthusiasm now known as the Wave. His seemingly trivial feat of coordinating humans to work together toward a common...
