All Summaries
All Summaries
The majority of today’s leaders believe that they are providing a sufficient amount of coaching to their employees, but studies show that the “coachees” disagree. In The Extraordinary Coach, John H....
In The Extraordinary Leader, John H. Zenger and Joseph R. Folkman explore what it takes to develop poor and average leaders into extraordinary leaders, defined as those leaders occupying the top ten...
The Failure of Risk Management shows readers how to identify and fix the most common problems in risk management. Ineffective risk management methods, often touted as “best practices,” are passed from...
Women and men have different perspectives on the world and on how they experience it, but business organizations have traditionally focused on and rewarded only male-centric points of view. A woman’s unique perceptions...
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...
In The Financial Aid Handbook, Carol Stack and Ruth Vedvik draw on their combined 70 years of experience in the college admission and financial aid industry to offer an insider’s look at the financial...
What does the ideal organic team look like? The Firefly Effect addresses the key characteristics that compose creative, energetic, and productive teams and discusses practical methods leaders can use...
In The First-Time Manager’s Guide to Team Building, Gary S. Topchik explains how to achieve a powerful team that can focus successfully on the desired end results. Topchik dissects the meaning of team...
When an individual is first promoted to a managerial position, it is frequently because they have proven themselves to be a valuable employee. The skills required for management, however, are significantly different...
Team builders will, at one time or another, face the challenge of fostering group harmony in groups where there are inevitably going to be flaws due to human nature. According to author Patrick Lencioni, human beings...
