All Summaries
All Summaries
Peter Fisk begins his book, People, Planet, Profit, by asserting that in a time of “unprecedented” change in the world, issues concerning the environment and society as a whole carry enormous...
Business executives have always been on a quest for effective management practices, wanting to know how well the competition is doing, what it is doing, and how it is doing it. Thus, best practice research has also...
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...
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 every field there are certain individuals that excel and demonstrate outstanding performance. Many aspire to emulate these leaders, but are unsure how to attain their goal. In The Business of Being the Best...
In The Learning Layer, Steven D. Flinn introduces the concept of a learning layer that rests atop all other systems within an organization and, like the human mind, can evolve and adapt to the input of...
The authors document the emergence of America ’s high-tech innovation and development-the breakthrough economy-and explain how it has failed to effectively generate new products, wealth, and economic growth. Also,...
In the fast paced world of 21st century economics, even change has changed. The only way to keep afloat these days is to truly abide by the old...
Some ideas are “stick-worthy” while others are not and the traditional advice to make ideas stick, such as knowing your audience, making eye contact, practice, and repetition, tends to have limited effectiveness....
In The Inspiring Leader, John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, and Scott K. Edinger explain how leaders can bring about extraordinary performance and move a group from ho-hum to gung-ho by breaking...
