http://www.bizsum.com/ Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:03:43 -0400 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:45:41 -0400 http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/chocolate-fortunes <div>Author: Allen, Lawrence L.</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/global-business">Global Business</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Until about 25 years ago, almost no one in China had ever eaten a piece of chocolate. For the world's leading chocolate makers, this was both a great challenge and a great opportunity. In Chocolate Fortunes, Lawrence L...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/digital-wars <div>Author: Arthur, Charles</div> <div>Publisher: Kogan Page Limited</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Digital Wars</strong>, Charles Arthur explores how the introduction of the Internet in the late 1990s and the affordability of personal computing significantly altered the world’s digital landscape. He...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/leaders-teachers <div>Author: Betof, Edward</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In 2000, Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) was competing in a medical technology market that was much different than the one it had grown up in. The current market was fully globalized, and regulations were changing...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/big-lie <div>Author: Bianco, Anthony</div> <div>Publisher: PublicAffairs</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In 2006, the story broke of a spying scandal at one of America’s oldest and most respected technology companies. In <strong>The Big Lie</strong>, Anthony Bianco provides a thoroughly documented account of the...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/mother-teresa-ceo <div>Author: Bose, Ruma | Faust, Lou</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/social-responsibility">Social Responsibility</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>Mother Teresa, CEO</strong> is not the typical business book. Authors Ruma Bose, a former volunteer with Missionaries of Charity, and her mentor, Lou Faust provide insight for business leaders from an atypical...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/fatal-risk <div>Author: Boyd, Roddy</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Roddy Boyd’s <strong>Fatal Risk</strong>, details the birth, growth, and ultimate collapse in 2008 of AIG—the largest insurance company in the world. What began after World War I as C.V. Starr’s enterprise in China...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/art-being-unreasonable <div>Author: Broad, Eli</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Eli Broad’s most cherished possession, a paperweight from his wife Edythe, is inscribed with these words from George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/moments-truth <div>Author: Carlzon, Jan</div> <div>Publisher: Ballinger Publishing Company</div> <div>Published Date: 1989</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>Moments of Truth </strong>tells the story of the fantastic turnaround of Scandinavian Airlines under the leadership of CEO Jan Carlzon. Carlzon took the helm of SAS following a two-year period during which the...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/deliver <div>Author: Champy, Jim</div> <div>Publisher: FT Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Deliver!</strong>, management adviser Jim Champy takes a close look at five very different case studies of enterprises that have found ways to cut costs, improve efficiencies, or integrate new, sometimes...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/ikea-edge <div>Author: Dahlvig, Andrews</div> <div>Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>After serving as the CEO for ten years, Anders Dahlvig retired from Ikea in 2009. He began his career there in 1983 when the company was undergoing significant global expansion. In his book <strong>The IKEA Edge...</strong></p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/obstacles-welcome <div>Author: de la Vega, Ralph</div> <div>Publisher: Thomas Nelson</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/major-works">Major Works</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Obstacles Welcome</strong>, Ralph de la Vega describes in rich and fascinating biographical detail how adversity and obstacles present opportunities to enrich and transform our business and personal lives....</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/design-apple <div>Author: Edson, John</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/marketing">Marketing</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Design Like Apple</strong>, John Edson describes how companies can use design to gain a competitive advantage. Through an in-depth breakdown of Apple’s philosophies, practices, and inner workings, Edson...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/steve-jobs-way-ileadership-new-generation <div>Author: Elliot, Jay | Simon, William L.</div> <div>Publisher: Vanguard Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation</strong>, former Apple Senior Vice President Jay Elliot and William Simon analyze the business practices of the man who once asked a potential hire, “Do...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/and-then-roof-caved <div>Author: Faber, David</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/economics-finance">Economics & Finance</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Speculation and investigations into what really caused one of the greatest economic collapses in history will continue for the foreseeable future and, in the process, blame will most likely be placed at a number of...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/everything-i-know-about-business-i-learned-mcdonalds <div>Author: Facella, Paul</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Paul Facella’s <strong>Everything I Know About Business I Learned at McDonald’s</strong> is an overview of his 34-year career with the fast food giant. In it he provides advice and guidance for achieving success and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/thinking-forward <div>Author: Griffith, John R. | White, Kenneth R. | Cahill, Patricia</div> <div>Publisher: Health Administration Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2003</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/health-care">Health Care</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>“Thinking forward” is the phrase used by Patricia Cahill, president and CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), to describe the process that put CHI on the road to its current success. Thinking forward is the way CHI...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/inside-fda <div>Author: Hawthorne, Fran</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has significant reach in the American economy, ranging from medicines and medical devices to items on the grocery store shelves. Since its inception in 1906, the...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/stirring-it <div>Author: Hirshberg, Gary</div> <div>Publisher: Hyperion Books</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/social-responsibility">Social Responsibility</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Stirring It Up</strong>, Gary Hirshberg describes the mission behind Stonyfield Farm and catalogs the lessons he has learned while seeking profit via environmental sustainability over the past 25 years....</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/delivering-happiness <div>Author: Hsieh, Tony</div> <div>Publisher: Business Plus</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and one of the most widely successful e-commerce vendors on the Internet, has quickly risen through the ranks of corporate America. He has established himself as one of the premier thought...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/what-would-google-do <div>Author: Jarvis, Jeff</div> <div>Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Google’s founders and executives understand how the introduction of Internet technology has changed the way business is conducted and how people interact with enterprises. This knowledge has made them successful and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/billy-alfred-and-general-motors <div>Author: Johnson, Lydia Brown</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2006</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/entrepreneurship">Entrepreneurship</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/major-works">Major Works</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In the 1950s, GM was a juggernaut, dominating every market it entered and influencing American manufacturing, marketing, and even society like no other company, before nor since. Now, as the company approaches its...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/13-bankers <div>Author: Johnson, Simon | Kwak, James</div> <div>Publisher: Pantheon Books</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/economics-finance">Economics & Finance</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In March 2009, 13 executives of the most powerful financial institutions in America met with the president at the White House at the height of a profound financial crisis which threatened the very existence of the...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/exceeding-customer-expectations <div>Author: Kazanjian, Kirk</div> <div>Publisher: Doubleday</div> <div>Published Date: 2007</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>From an initial investment of $100,000 and just seven cars, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has slowly, quietly grown into the largest and most successful car rental company in America. It took fifty years, some thoughtful...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/spark <div>Author: Koller, Frank</div> <div>Publisher: PublicAffairs</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Spark</strong>, Frank Koller examines the employment policy of the 114-year-old Lincoln Electric Company, which has remained successful through two world wars, the Great Depression and other economic crises...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/orange-code <div>Author: Kuhlmann, Arkadi | Philp, Bruce</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Written by Arkadi Kuhlmann, the founding CEO of ING Direct, and Bruce Philp, cofounder of GWP, ING Direct’s advertising agency, <strong>The Orange Code </strong>tells the history of ING Direct and their immensely...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/toyota-under-fire <div>Author: Liker, Jeffrey K. | Ogden, Timothy N.</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Toyota Under Fire</strong>, authors Jeffrey Liker and Timothy Ogden recount how Toyota Motor Corporation effectively dealt with serious allegations concerning the safety of its automobiles while struggling...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/women-berkshire-hathaway <div>Author: Linder, Karen</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>The Women of Berkshire Hathaway</strong> by Karen Linder brings to life the stories of nine women who have risen to the top ranks of management within subsidiary companies of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/google-speaks <div>Author: Lowe, Janet</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have been called the “lords of all information,” the “Thomas Edisons of the Internet,” and the twin “Princes of High Technology” for creating what Time magazine in 2006 called...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/risk-takers <div>Author: Martin, Renee | Martin, Don</div> <div>Publisher: Perseus Books</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/entrepreneurship">Entrepreneurship</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Starting a business, keeping it going through the inevitable ups and downs of the business cycle, and making it wildly successful are all part of the American Dream. However, being a small business owner is also a...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/riding-tiger <div>Author: Nelson, Priscilla | Cohen, Ed</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/economics-finance">Economics & Finance</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>When the unthinkable and unimaginable occur, one must grab the tiger by the tail to prevent it from completely devouring everyone and everything in sight. A crisis can occur to anyone at anytime. Ultimately, the...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/my-secret-life-mcjob <div>Author: Newman, Jerry</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2007</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In March 1998 Jerry Newman visited a fast food restaurant with his daughter for breakfast. In her breakfast sandwich was a finger from a plastic sanitary glove. That experience led Newman, a university business...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/how-they-blew-it <div>Author: Oliver, Jamie | Goodwin, Tony</div> <div>Publisher: Kogan-Page Limited</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>How They Blew It</strong>, Jamie Oliver and Tony Goodwin investigate 16 of the world’s greatest business failures in order to help readers avoid similar situations. To be successful entrepreneurs or CEOs,...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/lean-machine <div>Author: Oosterwal, Dantar P.</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The Harley-Davidson Motor Company is heir to one of the most dramatic turnaround stories in business history. According to Dantar P. Oosterwal, the company’s evolution and continued success are owed in great measure to...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/extreme-toyota <div>Author: Osono, Emi | Shimizu, Norihiko | Takeuchi, Hirotaka | Dorton, John Kyle</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Toyota is defined by contradictions. The auto company has a famously efficient production system, but appears to have heavy layers of management and a surplus of administrative employees. It has a stable history...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/too-big-save <div>Author: Pozen, Robert</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/economics-finance">Economics & Finance</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In 2008, the United States and the world plunged into a serious financial crisis. This major downturn resulted from the collapse of the U.S. housing market and excessive debt that made its way throughout the global...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/too-deep <div>Author: Reed, Stanley | Fitzgerald, Alison</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/social-responsibility">Social Responsibility</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>On the night of April 20, 2010, BP’s Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 people and injuring dozens more. For the next 87 days, millions of barrels of oil from the Macondo...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/king-madison-avenue <div>Author: Roman, Kenneth</div> <div>Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/marketing">Marketing</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>David Ogilvy has been dubbed “the original mad man,” the “godfather” of the ad world, and “the pope of modern advertising.” In <strong>The King of Madison Avenue</strong>, Kenneth Roman, former chairman and CEO of...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/snowball <div>Author: Schroeder, Alice</div> <div>Publisher: Bantam Books</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Most people equate the name Warren Buffett with canny investing, enormous amounts of money, and a generous, philanthropic spirit. In <strong>The Snowball</strong>, Alice Schroeder provides readers with a detailed and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/riches-among-ruins <div>Author: Smith, Richard P. | Zheutlin, Peter</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/global-business">Global Business</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The focus of <strong>Riches Among the Ruins </strong>by Robert P. Smith is twofold: it shows how the isolated economies of individual nations have created great investment opportunities in the last 50 years, and how...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/unleashing-innovation <div>Author: Snyder, Nancy Tennant | Duarte, Deborah L.</div> <div>Publisher: Jossey-Bass</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Every company wants to be an innovation leader. After all, companies that innovate are ultimately those that thrive. Unfortunately, most companies that institute innovation programs do it in a manner that thwarts the...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/new-secrets-ceos <div>Author: Tappin, Steve | Cave, Andrew</div> <div>Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/entrepreneurship">Entrepreneurship</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>CEOs face a life that not many people have the opportunity to experience. Not only are they in a position to effect great change, but as leaders of companies, they also have an incredible amount of responsibility and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/power-we <div>Author: Tisch, Jonathan M.</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2004</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/social-responsibility">Social Responsibility</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Jonathan Tisch, Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels and one of the nation's most influential corporate executives, understands the power of partnerships in achieving success. Although he developed his leadership...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/ge-work-out <div>Author: Ulrich, Dave | Kerr, Steve | Ashkenas, Ron</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2002</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Employees at GE have a deeply engrained and internalized process for addressing and solving the company’s problems quickly, simply, and with the involvement of people who will ultimately carry out the decision. The...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/watch-listen-click-here <div>Author: Verklin, David | Kanner, Bernice</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2007</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/marketing">Marketing</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/technology">Technology</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Almost two-thirds of Americans’ waking lives are engaged with media of some kind, according to David Verklin and Bernice Kanner, the authors of <strong>Watch This, Listen Up, Click Here</strong>, and where consumers...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Business Biographies