All Summaries
All Summaries
Carole Sinclair writes a personal handbook enabling women to take charge of their lives and lifestyles in retirement. Sinclair discusses the unique problems-lack of benefits, reduced health care, dependent spouses and...
In today’s fast-paced, highly competitive information age, journalists are under more pressure than ever to deliver compelling news stories. Likewise, newsmakers are under similar pressure to present their messages in...
During the past several decades, the trend toward collaborative teamwork has grown tremendously. Teams can be found everywhere in the public and private sectors, and they come in many forms--executive teams, management...
Almost every company in the world will eventually face a period of stalled growth. This phenomenon occurs in every industry, and affects businesses both large and small. Stalled growth affects well-managed companies,...
Gaining and sustaining competitive advantage requires understanding how to achieve success, but it also requires understanding how to avoid mistakes. Thus, in the same way that medical professionals study disease as a...
Globalization, rapid technological change, and knowledge - the primary forces of the information age - have brought into serious question the propriety and value of traditional economics. When Economics Means...
In What’s Stopping You?, Robert Kelsey warns that fear of failure can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This common, yet rarely addressed condition alters behaviors in ways that make failure a...
Storytelling is a universal human activity. At every stage in history, every society has both told stories and listened to them intently and passionately. Storytelling is the method by which people tell each other who...
In What’s the Secret?, businessman and customer service consultant John R. DiJulius III reveals the success of his and other companies using Secret Service, hidden systems that use customer...
In What Your Body Says (and how to master the message), Sharon Sayler explains how nonverbal signs are a very influential part of communication, sometimes even more so than the verbal part of the...
