All Summaries
All Summaries
In his now-classic study, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, Henry Mintzberg traces the origins of strategic planning, describes its demise, diagnoses why it failed, identifies important...
Starting a business, keeping it going through the inevitable ups and downs of the business cycle, and making it wildly successful are all part of the American Dream. However, being a small business owner is also a...
In The Road to Organic Growth, Edward Hess defines two types of growth patterns in business, nonorganic growth, where companies increase size and power primarily by consuming or assimilating other...
Although current conventional wisdom says that people (human capital), rather than money, facilities, or equipment, are the lifeblood assets of any business, still there is no reliable means of quantifying the...
The Rowers’ Code by Marilyn Krichko with Jane Rollinson tells the story of what it takes to build a great team. This business parable follows a team of eight people with a new manager as they...
According to The Rule of Three, "natural" competitive market structures evolve by a process that is analogous to the selection processes found in nature, which favor those who are the strongest, the...
The Sales Manager’s Success Manual seeks to demonstrate to sales managers and Chief Sales Officers (CSOs) how to develop, assess, lead, and coach their sales teams. Dr. Wayne Thomas, an award-winning...
In The Savvy Manager, Jane R. Flagello and Sandra Bernard Dugas offer managers tips on how to deal with the human element of a company and how to improve an organization by improving their management...
In The Science of Influence, author Kevin Hogan provides detailed instruction on the topic of persuasion. He takes the latest findings in behavioral research, tests them under real-world conditions,...
As Battelle observes, it seems as though the words “Google” and “search” are now nearly synonymous, for Google is currently the culture’s most prominent declaration of the power of search. Despite its having entered...
