All Summaries
All Summaries
Listening, being one of the most important things in business, helps create good relations with people. It is a creative act that improves as it is...
In The Starfish and the Spider, entrepreneurs Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom offer that organizations fall into two categories: traditional “spiders,” which have a rigid hierarchy and a top-down...
How did companies like Nokia, Canon, Intel, HP and 3M become leaders of industry in terms of profit and quality? Why did firms like Toyota, Southwest...
With The Essential Controller, Steven M. Bragg has provided a primer for the new controller. The world of accounting has changed, and with it the role of the controller. A once isolated profession,...
Game theory is an effective means of bringing together competition and cooperation to reach a vision of Co-opetition more suited to the opportunities and realities of the times. It focuses directly on...
Each day in the business world, a corporate version of “survival of the fittest” unfolds in the form of power plays, turf battles, deceptions, and sabotages. As a result, individuals’ careers are thwarted and companies...
In whatever business you choose to engage in, you need reliable and competent people. You have to invest in the right people - people who put their competencies and work...
According to conventional wisdom, employee turnover is usually about pay and beyond the control of most companies. But in The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave, human relations consultant Leigh Branham...
In Make Your Brain Work, Amy Brann draws on principles of neuroscience to explain how the brain works. Understanding how the brain functions can help people work more efficiently, productively, and...
Customers have become technology savvy—blogging about products, instantly comparing prices, becoming fans on Facebook, and posting videos on YouTube. Retailers need to listen to what is being said about their products...
