All Summaries

All Summaries

 
How To Close Every Sale Girard, Joe | Shook, Robert L. Warner Books Inc , 1989 Customer Focus, Marketing

Closing a sale is the stage in the selling process where salespeople meet the greatest difficulty. Joe Girard walks the reader through fundamental...

 
 
The Southwest Airlines Way Gittell, Jodie Hoffer McGraw-Hill , 2002 Business Biographies, Customer Focus, Management

Southwest Airlines has sustained a steady 10 to 15 percent rate of growth throughout its 32-year history, and has been profitable every year but its first. For most of 2002, its total market value of about $9 billion...

 
 
Financial Self-Defense Givens, Charles J. Simon & Schuster , 1990 Economics & Finance, Leadership

An "arsenal" of 186 Attack and Defense Strategies for combating scams, hidden charges, half-truths, and even lies perpetuated against consumers by the insurance and banking industries; automobile manufacturers, dealers...

 
 
The Tipping Point Gladwell, Malcolm Little, Brown & Company , 2003 Innovation, Major Works

How is it that Paul Revere’s ride is heralded to this day, while the endeavors of William Dawes, who also rode at the very same time to warn of the British, barely rate a footnote in history? How is it that Hush...

 
 
Blink Gladwell, Malcolm Little, Brown and Company , 2005 Management, Personal Growth

Blink is a book about split-second decisions and first impressions. The book is filled with intriguing examples of the "Blink" process, or rapid cognition, at its most impressive - a psychologist who has developed a...

 
 
Outliers Gladwell, Malcolm Litte, Bown and Company , 2008 Business Strategy

Why do some people succeed far more than others? There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people - a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition. In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell claims that...

 
 
Swim With the Dolphins Glaser, Connie | Steinberg Smalley, Barbara Warner Books , 1995 Diversity, Personal Growth

Corporate America is just now beginning to realize that effective managers must possess the right technical skills to get the job done, as well as the right people skills to ensure a sense of cohesiveness in the...

 
 
Creating WE Glaser, Judith E. Platinum Press Inc. , 2005 Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Relationships, Teams

According to Glaser, organizations lose their spirit, become mediocre, and die when they fall prey to what she calls the self-serving I-centric behaviors of control, blame, resignation, attachment to the past,...

 
 
The DNA of Leadership Glaser, Judith E. Adams Media , 2006 Human Resources, Leadership, Personal Growth

In The DNA of Leadership, which follows her successful Creating WE, author Judith Glaser identifies the seven leadership practices that can re-shape an organization into a culture that...

 
 
The Personal Efficiency Program Gleeson, Kerry John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2009 Personal Growth, Productivity

The problems of overwork can plague anyone in today's hectic business world where technology has increased both projects and expectations. The paperless society has only half arrived, so many have to deal with an...

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