http://www.bizsum.com/ Fri, 10 May 2013 15:08:14 -0400 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:12:56 -0400 http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/lean-done-right <div>Author: Zidel, Thomas G.</div> <div>Publisher: Health Administration Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/health-care">Health Care</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Lean Done Right</strong>, Thomas G. Zidel argues that ineffective approaches to Lean also can be found in many healthcare organizations today. He is concerned that hospitals and other healthcare...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/make-your-brain-work <div>Author: Brann, Amy</div> <div>Publisher: Kogan Page Limited</div> <div>Published Date: 2013</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Make Your Brain Work</strong>, Amy Brann draws on principles of neuroscience to explain how the brain works. Understanding how the brain functions can help people work more efficiently, productively, and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/boring-meetings-suck <div>Author: Petz, Jon</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <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><strong>Boring Meetings Suck</strong> by Jon Petz is intended for leaders who want to end, or at least minimize, useless time consuming meetings. To be great, a meeting must deliver real value by providing useful...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/success-under-stress <div>Author: Melnick, Sharon</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2013</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In today’s work environment, most people are faced with too much to do and too little time to accomplish everything. With a constant barrage of emails and texts and network access 24/7, stress has become the new normal...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/more-time-you <div>Author: Tator, Rosemary | Latson, Alesia</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/relationships">Relationships</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In a world that bombards people with information every second of every day, it can be difficult to not feel overwhelmed and overstressed. In <strong>More Time for You</strong>, Rosemary Tator and Alesia Latson show...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/improving-performance <div>Author: Rummler, Geary A. | Brache, Alan P.</div> <div>Publisher: Jossey-Bass</div> <div>Published Date: 2013</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Managers are too often slaves to the vertical silos depicted on organizational charts. Instead, Geary A. Rummler and Alan P. Brache argue in <strong>Improving Performance</strong>, that managers should understand and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/slow-down-sell-faster <div>Author: Davis, Kevin</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/marketing">Marketing</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Slow Down, Sell Faster!</strong>, Kevin Davis explains how to win sales faster by actually slowing down the sales process and focusing on the customer’s buying process. He provides a practical model for...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/positive-intelligence <div>Author: Chamine, Shirzad</div> <div>Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press, LLC</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/teams">Teams</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>We spend much of our lives like Sisyphus, the king who was doomed forever to push a huge boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down. Unlike Sisyphus, however, our punishment is self-inflicted. In <strong>Positive...</strong></p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/no-more-pointless-meetings <div>Author: Murphy, Martin</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2013</div> <div>Categories: <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>In <strong>No More Pointless Meetings</strong>, Martin Murphy presents a transformative new way for leaders to get the most out of their teams in the least amount of time. By holding mundane, draining meetings, many...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/kiss-frog <div>Author: Tracy, Brian | Tracy Stein, Christina</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Psychologists believe that the way people think about themselves has a profound effect on the quality of their lives. Negative mental attitudes or mindsets are one of the biggest obstacles that prevent individuals from...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/what-do-when-theres-too-much-do <div>Author: Stack, Laura</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Today’s fast-paced and high-pressured business environment often requires workers to spend sixty, seventy, eighty, or more hours per week on the job. Unfortunately, productivity tends to decrease as work hours increase...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/stepping <div>Author: Izzo, John</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Stepping Up</strong>, executive coach and leadership speaker Dr. John Izzo describes how taking responsibility can improve lives, businesses, and relationships. The principles he introduces enable people to...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/improving-performance-government-employees <div>Author: Liff, Stewart</div> <div>Publisher: American Management Association</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership-development">Leadership Development</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>Improving the Performance of Government Employees</strong> is a handbook that describes how managers in government agencies can build and maintain a powerful set of management systems to propel improved...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/reviving-work-ethic <div>Author: Chester, Eric</div> <div>Publisher: Green Leaf Book Group Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Reviving Work Ethic</strong>, Eric Chester takes the position that the decline of work ethic is a problem that affects all Western nations, as well as a growing number of Eastern ones. He says that while it...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/employee-engagement-mindset <div>Author: Clark, Timothy R.</div> <div>Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/relationships">Relationships</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>The Employee Engagement Mindset</strong>, Timothy R. Clark reveals that the business world has been focusing on only the organization’s role in driving employee engagement, while ignoring the other...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/zen-leader <div>Author: Whitelaw, Ginny</div> <div>Publisher: The Career Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2012</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>The Zen Leader</strong>, Ginny Whitelaw addresses the unprecedented amount of pressure that many leaders feel today. It causes leaders to burn out, exhausting themselves and their employees. However, there...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/supercompetent <div>Author: Stack, Laura</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>SuperCompetent</strong>, Laura Stack details the six keys to attaining super competent status: activity, availability, attention, accessibility, accountability, and attitude. Becoming super competent...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-time-management <div>Author: Maxey, Cyndi | O'Connor, Kevin E.</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>10 Steps to Successful Time Management</strong>, communications consultants Cyndi Maxey and Kevin O’Connor explain how to view time as a resource. The key is to achieve an understanding of what matters in...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/smart-growth <div>Author: Hess, Edward D.</div> <div>Publisher: Columbia University Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Smart Growth</strong>, Edward D. Hess challenges commonly held business beliefs that businesses must grow or die, growth is always good, public companies should grow smoothly and continuously, and quarterly...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/beyond-performance <div>Author: Keller, Scott | Price, Colin</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Beyond Performance</strong>, Scott Keller and Colin Price strive to offer an explanation for why so few companies that achieve excellence are able to maintain it. They make their case with extensive research...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/way-were-working-isnt-working <div>Author: Schwartz, Tom | Gomes, Jean | McCarthy, Catherine</div> <div>Publisher: Free Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Today’s highly competitive business world has led to a work environment where people feel a constant sense of urgency. Unfortunately, this atmosphere reduces employee creativity, engagement, and performance. In...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/fake-work <div>Author: Peterson, Brent D. | Nielson, Gaylan W.</div> <div>Publisher: Gallery Books</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>People routinely spend long hours writing proposals, filling out paperwork, or sitting in meetings at work only to wonder if their hard work has achieved anything. In other words, many employees are caught in a trap of...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/make-every-second-count <div>Author: Bly, Robert</div> <div>Publisher: Career Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In today’s busy world, the demands on an individual’s time can be overwhelming. In fact, forty-two percent of American workers feel that they are overworked. High speed technology, downsizing, and increased customer...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/first-things-first <div>Author: Covey, Stephen R. | Merrill, A. Roger | Merrill, Rebecca R.</div> <div>Publisher: Free Press</div> <div>Published Date: 1994</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>First Things First</strong>, authors Stephen Covey and A. Roger and Rebecca Merrill address the frustration and guilt shared by many when they do not have enough time for those things which matter most to...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/performance-dashboards <div>Author: Eckerson, Wayne W.</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/technology">Technology</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Performance Dashboards</strong>, author Wayne Eckerson demonstrates how organizations can implement performance dashboards to keep employees focused on what is relevant about their organizations and help...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/act-sales-pro <div>Author: Hansen, Julie</div> <div>Publisher: The Career Press, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>It is often assumed that great sales people are naturals. But in <strong>Act Like a Sales Pro</strong>, author Julie Hansen asserts that what is seen as natural talent is actually the result of years of hard work and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/services-shift <div>Author: Kennedy, Robert E. | Sharma, Ajay</div> <div>Publisher: FT Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/global-business">Global Business</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>While twenty-first century managers are well-versed in the phenomenon of globalized manufacturing (the physical production of goods outside of a company’s country of operation), the details and implications of a more...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/project-management-dummies <div>Author: Portny, Stanley E.</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <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>In <strong>Project Management for Dummies</strong>, Stanley Portny examines project-management skills and techniques, and aims to suggest that they are not burdensome tasks. Rather, they are a systematic way of...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/get-it-done-guys-9-steps-work-less-and-do-more <div>Author: Robbins, Stever</div> <div>Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Most people today are overwhelmed with work both at work and at home. Working more efficiently is one solution, but few know where to begin. In <strong>Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More</strong>,...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/virtual-team-success <div>Author: DeRosa, Darleen M. | Lepsinger, Richard</div> <div>Publisher: Jossey-Bass</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <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>In today’s complex organizations it is not uncommon to have as many as 50 percent of employees working on virtual teams. Virtual collaboration has already begun to transform many business sectors. The gradual shift of...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/remedy <div>Author: Dennis, Pascal</div> <div>Publisher: Lean Productivity Network</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Whereas Lean thinking has traditionally been applied to manufacturing, it has great potential to improve other areas of operation as well. It can even benefit organizations that are not involved in manufacturing. The...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/make-their-day <div>Author: Ventrice, Cindy</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership-development">Leadership Development</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>In <strong>Make Their Day!</strong>, Cindy Ventrice discusses how effective recognition increases an organization’s productivity, profitability, and lowers turnover. She states that recognition must be incorporated...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/no-magic-bullet <div>Author: Willmore, Joe</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>There are hundreds of best-selling books that claim to have the secret to organizational success. Additionally, there are thousands of business consultants who have made lucrative careers pushing programs that...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/kick-your-own-ass <div>Author: Johnson, Robert Early</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/entrepreneurship">Entrepreneurship</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Kick Your Own Ass</strong>, Robert Early Johnson presents a guide for salespeople to change the arc of their potential and perform better in their careers. The title is meant to evoke the idea of achieving...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/going-lean-0 <div>Author: Smith, Amy C.</div> <div>Publisher: Health Administration Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <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>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Many healthcare facilities struggle with providing quality healthcare in an efficient manner, so that the patient is discharged to the home or to the next level of care as quickly and as medically appropriate as...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/thrive-pressure <div>Author: Jones, Graham</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Leaders are subjected to intense pressure and stress that they must effectively deal with in order to keep employees and themselves highly motivated and avoid burn out. <strong>Thrive on Pressure</strong> explores the...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/living-weekday <div>Author: Swindall, Clint</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Living for the Weekday</strong>, Clint Swindall examines what causes employees to stare at the clock in anticipation of their days off, and offers strategies on how to boost their engagement and satisfaction...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/now-habit-work <div>Author: Fiore, Neil</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>The Now Habit at Work</strong> offers those who seek to be more productive in their professional lives the tools and strategies necessary for more effective time management. A follow-up to author Neil Fiore’s...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/star-profile <div>Author: Janove, Jathan</div> <div>Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Corporate success should extend far beyond the dollars-and-cents bottom line of any given company, as many notable executives attest. Managerial excellence and employee development is an important long-term investment...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/today-matters <div>Author: Maxwell, John C.</div> <div>Publisher: Hachette Book Group</div> <div>Published Date: 2004</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>When problems arise, people want immediate solutions. In <strong>Today Matters</strong>, renowned leadership guru John C. Maxwell offers a radical alternative to this quick-fix approach. As any leader knows, today’s...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/1-hour-plan-growth <div>Author: Calhoon, Joe</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>The 1 Hour Plan for Growth</strong>, Joe Calhoon proposes a method for developing a business growth plan in one hour that can be written on a single sheet of paper. Calhoon offers his planning methodology to...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/failure-risk-management <div>Author: Hubbard, Douglas W.</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>The Failure of Risk Management</strong> 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...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/make-it-happen <div>Author: McLaughlin, Daniel B.</div> <div>Publisher: Health Administration Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <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>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The failure to execute is a common problem in healthcare. Faced with a rapidly changing business environment, many progressive healthcare delivery organizations are now striving to become “high performance” health...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/successful-time-management-dummies <div>Author: Zeller, Dirk</div> <div>Publisher: Wiley Publishing, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Time is a precious commodity. Each person has the same amount of time given to them to use productively or to waste. In <strong>Successful Time Management for Dummies</strong>, Dirk Zeller describes a broad variety of...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/hundred-percenters <div>Author: Murphy, Mark</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership-development">Leadership Development</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>Hundred Percenters</strong> aspire to achieve the extraordinary, and they give 100% in pursuit of greatness. In Hundred Percenters, Mark Murphy shows leaders how to take average people and unleash their...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/stress-effect <div>Author: Thompson, Henry L.</div> <div>Publisher: Jossey-Bass</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>As competition and economic pressures increase, business leaders are guaranteed to experience higher levels of stress. This can cause even leaders with proven track records to make bad decisions. In <strong>The Stress...</strong></p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/power-business-process-improvement <div>Author: Page, Susan</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Most aspects of business equate to a process. However, those processes are frequently not as efficient or effective as they could be. Business process improvement or BPI can help companies demonstrate greater customer...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/supply-chain-management-best-practices <div>Author: Blanchard, David</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/global-business">Global Business</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>A supply chain includes all components of a business responsible for gathering the materials and services required to make a product, as well as the manufacture and shipment of the product to stores and, ultimately,...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/think-better <div>Author: Hurson, Tim</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>Think Better</strong> by Tim Hurson outlines a six-step productive thinking program that helps individuals to think more efficiently, more powerfully, and more strategically. The program entails making a long...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/make-or-break <div>Author: Grichnik, Kaj | Winkler, Conrad | Rothfeder, Jeffrey</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Manufacturing has been the backbone of corporate America for many years, but some quintessential companies have let their manufacturing prowess lapse. With emerging markets, changing work forces, and accelerating...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/knowledge-management-basics <div>Author: Gabour, Christee</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/technology">Technology</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Every single company has a wealth of useful information, whether they realize it or not. <strong>Knowledge Management Basics</strong> takes organizations through a step-by-step analysis of what it takes to create,...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/enterprise-supply-chain-management <div>Author: Sehgal, Vivek</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <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>In <strong>Enterprise Supply Chain Management</strong>, Vivek Sehgal takes a comprehensive look at the role of supply chains within a variety of industries and organizations. Supply chain management evolved out of a...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/strategic-performance-management <div>Author: Marr, Bernard</div> <div>Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann</div> <div>Published Date: 2006</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In <strong>Strategic Performance Management</strong>, Bernard Marr combines his expertise, research, and observations into a detailed navigation of Strategic Performance Management, the process of managing and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/awesomely-simple <div>Author: Spence, John</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Any business will claim to have a vision for itself; it will also claim to have top talent, robust communications, and extreme customer focus. Likely though, its management gives itself higher marks in those areas than...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/carrot-principle-second-edition <div>Author: Gostick, Adrian | Elton, Chester</div> <div>Publisher: The Free Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</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>Recognition is an important and powerful tool that managers often do not use to full advantage. However, the effective use of recognition becomes even more critical in turbulent or difficult times when finding and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/toyota-supply-chain-management <div>Author: Iyer, Anath V. | Seshadri, Sridhar | Vasher, Roy</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>When it comes to efficient production and operational excellence, Toyota’s reputation is world-class. As a company, it has been the standard-bearer for innovation, continuous improvement, and lean manufacturing...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/little-black-book-project-management <div>Author: Thomsett, Michael C.</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <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>Over the past 20 years, Michael C. Thomsett’s <strong>The Little Black Book of Project Management</strong> has served as the classic introductory handbook for businesspeople in every type of organization, as it...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/no-boundaries <div>Author: Disselkamp, Lisa</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <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>Lisa Disselkamp’s <strong>No Boundaries </strong>outlines how leaders can use workforce management technology (WMT) to more effectively run their organizations; achieve financial goals and maximize profits; and enhance...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/extract-value-consultants <div>Author: Perchthold, Gordon | Sutton, Jenny</div> <div>Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>It has happened at too many corporations, both large and small: a new system or process is under consideration and management hires a consulting firm to tackle the new project. The consultants work for months, use...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/intrinsic-motivation-work <div>Author: Thomas, Kenneth W.</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</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>Maximizing productivity at work is a top priority for all business organizations, but all too often focus is limited to extrinsic rewards: tangible benefits such as pay, commissions, and bonuses. In <strong>Intrinsic...</strong></p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/new-human-capital-strategy <div>Author: Hall, Ph.D., Bradley W.</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</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>Bradley W. Hall identifies many problems with the current approach to talent management: no one is accountable; programs are emphasized over systems; and the existing Human Resources model is egalitarian, even though...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/developing-exemplary-performance-one-person-time <div>Author: Sabbag, Michael</div> <div>Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership-development">Leadership Development</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>When it comes to performance development, many leaders are happy to accept work that is merely “satisfactory.” But what if each employee could be developed into an exemplary performer, executing their duties at a level...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/three-laws-performance <div>Author: Zaffron, Steve | Logan, Dave</div> <div>Publisher: Jossey-Bass</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</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>In the work environment and at home, when things are not working, people struggle with which part of the problem to address first. However, the reason that fixing a problem often does not deliver the expected results,...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/coaching-improved-work-performance <div>Author: Fournies, Ferdinand F.</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2000</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership-development">Leadership Development</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>Coaching is a powerful technique for motivating employees to change their behavior. In Coaching For Improved Work Performance, Ferdinand Fournies shows managers how to become skilled coaches and to face the challenges...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/kiss-theory-good-bye <div>Author: Prosen, Bob</div> <div>Publisher: Gold Pen Publishing</div> <div>Published Date: 2006</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</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>In the best-selling business book, <strong>Good to Great</strong>, readers discovered why some companies do well. In another best-seller, Execution, readers learned what some companies do well. And in <strong>Kiss...</strong></p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/endangered-american-dream <div>Author: Luttwak, Edward N.</div> <div>Publisher: Simon & Schuster</div> <div>Published Date: 1993</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/economics-finance">Economics & Finance</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/major-works">Major Works</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>An in-depth analysis of the U.S. political and economic climate over the past two decades. Drawing from an array of studies, Luttwak reveals the root causes of America ’s declining standard of living, the decay of U.S...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/networking-affluent-and-their-advisors <div>Author: Stanley, Thomas J.</div> <div>Publisher: Business One Irwin</div> <div>Published Date: 1993</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/marketing">Marketing</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>A method for reaching the affluent through their affinity groups. Endorsements are gained for reasons that go beyond the basic product or service the networker offers. High performance networkers do extraordinary...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/shortcuts-smart-managers <div>Author: Davis, Lisa</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 1998</div> <div>Categories: <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>Being a manager is never easy. Not only are managers responsible for every decision they make, they are also responsible for everything their people do. They are expected to support, encourage, motivate, and to model...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/blur <div>Author: Davis, Stan | Meyer, Christopher</div> <div>Publisher: Addison-Wesley</div> <div>Published Date: 1998</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/technology">Technology</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The pace of change has accelerated far beyond anyone’s comfort zone, thus, the rules that guided business decisions in the past are no longer reliable. These momentous shifts are being driven by elements of change that...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/working-shadow-side <div>Author: Egan, Gerard</div> <div>Publisher: The Human Element</div> <div>Published Date: 1994</div> <div>Categories: <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>Much has been written about the processes and systems that drive organizations and the ways and means of making them more effective. What is rarely discussed, and certainly not in any great detail, are the covert...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/clockspeed <div>Author: Fine, Charles H.</div> <div>Publisher: Perseus Books</div> <div>Published Date: 1998</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</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>Clockspeed grew out of Charles Fine’s study of the strategic impact of supply-chain strategy on competitive advantage. Fine decided that instead of monitoring the supply chains of slowly evolving businesses, he would...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/lean-and-mean <div>Author: Harrison, Bennett</div> <div>Publisher: Basic Books</div> <div>Published Date: 1995</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/global-business">Global Business</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>According to <strong>Lean and Mean</strong>, contrary to popular myth, small firms are not driving economic growth and creating the most new jobs. Rather, it is the concentrated, powerful business enterprises that...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/productive-edge <div>Author: Lester, Richard K.</div> <div>Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 1998</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/economics-finance">Economics & Finance</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p></p><P>Beginning in 1985, Champion International, one of the largest and oldest U.S. industrial companies, began a change process that transformed it from an underachieving tradition-bound organization into a...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/creating-open-book-organization <div>Author: McCoy, Thomas J.</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 1996</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Creating an "Open Book" Organization presents an integrated approach that applies multiple human resources initiatives in a coordinated manner to create a partnership among all employees. Addressing the interest that...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/if-only-we-knew-what-we-know <div>Author: O'Dell, Carla | Grayson Jr., C. Jackson | Essaides, Nilly</div> <div>Publisher: The Free Press</div> <div>Published Date: 1998</div> <div>Categories: <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>In almost every organization, hidden reservoirs of "knowledge" exist relatively untapped. A few organizations are, however, going after this mother lode, learning how to mine it using a tool called "knowledge...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/supply-chain-optimization <div>Author: Poirier, Charles C. | Reiter, Stephen E.</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers</div> <div>Published Date: 1996</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>A supply chain is a network of interlinked organizations, or constituencies, that has as a common purpose the best possible means of delivering products/services to customers. The chain begins with suppliers that can...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/frames-reference <div>Author: Rudman, Carol</div> <div>Publisher: Peterson's/Pacesetter Books</div> <div>Published Date: 1996</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/diversity">Diversity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Everyday in the workplace, people face many challenges related to cross-gender communications. Often these situations are emotionally charged, and each party is too caught up in them to have any kind of perspective or...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/critical-shift <div>Author: Silverman, Lori L. | Propst, Annabeth L.</div> <div>Publisher: ASQ Quality Press</div> <div>Published Date: 1999</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</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>According to Lori L. Silverman and Annabeth L. Propst, the concept of quality, as used within the context of "total quality management," has fallen out of favor. However, it is not "dead" but is being replaced by...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/managing-global-alliances <div>Author: Cauley de la Sierra, M.</div> <div>Publisher: Addison-Wesley</div> <div>Published Date: 1995</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/global-business">Global Business</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>Managing Global Alliances </strong>is a how-to manual that pinpoints guiding principles about how to set up and sustain a successful global alliance. Alliances are usually formed to pool, exchange, or integrate...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/why-employees-dont-do-what-theyre-supposed-do-and-what-do-about-it <div>Author: Fournies, Ferdinand F.</div> <div>Publisher: Liberty House</div> <div>Published Date: 1989</div> <div>Categories: <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>Not knowing why a task should be undertaken is the one reason for employee nonperformance that most managers find the easiest to accept-it's logical and needs no explanation. Today's managers know that it is perfectly...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/professionals-guide-working-smarter <div>Author: Henry, Lauchland A.</div> <div>Publisher: Burrill-Ellsworth Associates, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 1989</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Success traditionally goes to those who set goals, make plans to achieve them, and carry out those plans. Individuals who have problems achieving usually plan or execute poorly. 1. Self-Evaluation will indicate where...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/telecommuting <div>Author: Kugelmass, Joel</div> <div>Publisher: The Free Press</div> <div>Published Date: 1995</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The experiences of many public and private organizations throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan have shown that flexible work is an effective management strategy for organizations in every sector. Joel...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/implementing-supplier-partnerships <div>Author: Van Mieghem, Timothy</div> <div>Publisher: Prentice Hall Press</div> <div>Published Date: 1995</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>Implementing Supplier Partnerships </strong>shows advantages to establishing real relationships between supplier and customer beyond buying and selling. Some overlooked factors include the cost of value-added...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/he-works-she-works <div>Author: Carter, Jaine | Carter, James D.</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 1995</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/diversity">Diversity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The fact that the dynamics of the workplace ultimately alter the dynamics of personal relationships creates challenges that couples need to meet if both partners hope to enjoy life while pursuing their goals. This book...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/mean-business <div>Author: Dunlap, Albert J. | Andelman, Bob</div> <div>Publisher: Times Business</div> <div>Published Date: 1996</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The term "to Dunlap" has become a verb in the business lexicon. It means "to turn a company around at lightning speed, to focus on the best, eliminate what is not the best, to protect and enhance shareholder value." "...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/performance-consulting <div>Author: Robinson, Dana Gaines | Robinson, James C.</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers</div> <div>Published Date: 1995</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>Performance Consulting </strong>provides both a conceptual framework and specific techniques for making the transition from the role of Traditional Trainer to the role of Performance Consultant. The authors...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/maximizing-employee-productivity <div>Author: Sibson, Robert E.</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 1994</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>Maximizing Employee Productivity </strong>is a practical, results-oriented approach to improving employee effectiveness. Using his employee productivity (EP) process of productivity management, Sibson explains...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/rethinking-corporation <div>Author: Tomasko, Robert M.</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 1993</div> <div>Categories: <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><strong>Rethinking the Corporation </strong>is an application of architectural design logic applied to corporate reorganization. Tomasko shows how to go beneath the strategic and make the kinds of structural changes...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/time-trap <div>Author: Mackenzie, Alec | Nickerson, Pat</div> <div>Publisher: Amacom</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Who has never felt the need for more hours in the day to accomplish what must be done? The struggle to use time effectively in the face of overwhelming daily demands has not diminished since the late Alec Mackenzie...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-meetings <div>Author: ASTD Editors ASTD Editors</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <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>In <strong>10 Steps to Successful Meetings</strong>, the American Society for Training and Development provides key information needed to develop and facilitate effective meetings. Conducting efficient meetings is an...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/mindset <div>Author: Dweck, Carol S.</div> <div>Publisher: Random House</div> <div>Published Date: 2006</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>According to Carol S. Dweck, one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation, there are two main belief systems, or mindsets, that people can possess: fixed and growth. These mindsets strongly...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/strategic-project-management-made-simple <div>Author: Schmidt, Terry</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</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>Too many project teams and project managers fail to accomplish their goals because they lack “the right tools to think, plan, and act effectively.” In <strong>Strategic Project Management Made Simple</strong>, Terry...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/extraordinary-groups <div>Author: Bellman, Geoffrey M. | Ryan, Kathleen D.</div> <div>Publisher: Jossey-Bass</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/teams">Teams</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>People take part in group activities in countless aspects of their lives, but truly exceptional group experiences are rare. Groups that can harnesses the energy to satisfy their goals and surpass expectations have a...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity 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: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/personal-efficiency-program <div>Author: Gleeson, Kerry</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>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...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/busy-managers-guide-delegation <div>Author: Luecke, Richard A. | McIntosh, Perry</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <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>All managers, from CEOs to frontline supervisors, must delegate to accomplish their goals. Yet, even though delegation enables managers to produce results through other people, many supervisors have not yet mastered...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/identifying-and-managing-project-risk <div>Author: Kendrick, Tom</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <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>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/teams">Teams</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>All projects involve risk, and those projects that are successful generally have leaders who employ the best project management practices available. In his book <strong>Identifying and Managing Project Risk</strong>,...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-strategic-planning <div>Author: Barksdale, Susan | Lund, Teri</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2006</div> <div>Categories: <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>One practice that often sets successful businesses apart from the rest is strategic planning. These organizations benefit not just from having a strategic plan, but from undergoing the strategic planning process itself...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/concept-consumer <div>Author: Baker, Phil</div> <div>Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/marketing">Marketing</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Successful products not only depend on a good idea; they also require cost-effective manufacturing, customers who are willing to buy, and strong marketing and distribution programs. The steps leading from product...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/rethink <div>Author: Merrifield, Ric</div> <div>Publisher: FT Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/change-management">Change Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</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>When it becomes necessary to search for cost efficiencies and business improvement ideas, company leaders tend to focus on fine-tuning processes (the hows) rather than focusing on what companies actually do and why...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-project-management <div>Author: Russell, Lou</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2007</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/teams">Teams</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Many people today find themselves in charge of one or more projects. Lou Russell uses her own experiences to lay out her <strong>10 Steps to Successful Project Management</strong> that can be molded to fit any project...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/e-learning-20 <div>Author: Rosen, Anita</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Even though e-learning has become a widely accepted practice, many organizations do not invest enough time to fully realize its potential. Instead of sticking with outdated tactics, organizations should embrace...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/driving-results-through-social-networks <div>Author: Cross, Rob | Thomas, Robert J.</div> <div>Publisher: Jossey-Bass</div> <div>Published Date: 2009</div> <div>Categories: <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>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/relationships">Relationships</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Most leaders still rely too heavily on formal structures when designing their organizations and implementing strategy. However, these formal organizational structures often overlook the fact that every organization...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/investing-people <div>Author: Cascio, Wayne | Boudreau, John</div> <div>Publisher: FT Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/economics-finance">Economics & Finance</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/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Decisions about talent, human capital, and organizational effectiveness are increasingly central to the strategic success of virtually all organizations. Unfortunately, these decisions are often addressed with limited...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/executive-stamina <div>Author: Seldman, Marty | Seldman, Joshua</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Most executives have an intense desire to achieve, and equally exhibit a strong sense of responsibility, but sometimes they overlook the fact that raising their endurance and energy levels can strengthen their...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/fast-strategy <div>Author: Doz, Yves | Kosonen, Mikko</div> <div>Publisher: Wharton School Publishing</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/change-management">Change Management</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>Companies that are strategically agile learn to change their direction quickly and to transform themselves without losing their day-to-day business momentum. These companies usually have CEOs and top leadership teams...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/little-book-listening-skills-workplace <div>Author: Brady, Mark</div> <div>Publisher: Mark Brady, Piaeia Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2006</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/relationships">Relationships</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><dl id="citationFields" class="citation-fields"> <p><span>Listening, being one of the most important things in business, helps create good relations with people.</span><span> It is a creative act that improves as it is...</span></p></dl></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/no-problem <div>Author: Lowy, Alex</div> <div>Publisher: AuthorHouse</div> <div>Published Date: 2007</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Problem-solving models are not new. However, they can be complex, with unclear techniques and methods that may not actually help people define a problem, and then recognize the habits and patterns that can get in the...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/hot-spots <div>Author: Gratton, Lynda</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers</div> <div>Published Date: 2007</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/teams">Teams</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>According to Gratton, Hot Spots are places and times—workplaces, teams, departments, companies, factories, cities, industries, coffee shops, hallways, and/or conferences—where people work in exceptionally creative and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/carrot-principle <div>Author: Gostick, Adrian | Elton, Chester</div> <div>Publisher: The Free Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2007</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</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>Numerous organizations employ business leaders who set clear goals, communicate openly, treat people fairly, hold them accountable, and create trusting relationships. However, there’s often something critical missing....</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/hamster-revolution <div>Author: Halsey, Vicki | Burress, Tim</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers</div> <div>Published Date: 2007</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>E-mail and information storage tasks are estimated to take up 40% of a typical professional’s day. E-mail volume is said to be rising at a rate of 14.6% annually. Every day, there is an avalanche of disorganized,...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/focus-laser-beam <div>Author: Haneberg, Lisa L.</div> <div>Publisher: Jossey-Bass</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Focus is defined as concentrating energy on something, achieving a distinct vision, or attending to the right thing. Focus is purposeful, not accidental; and it is different than giving attention to something....</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/enthusiastic-employee <div>Author: Sirota, David | Mischkind, Louis A. | Meltzer, Michael Irwin</div> <div>Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Companies must pay attention to their bottom lines, but many companies lose sight of the fact that paying attention to their employees will positively impact their bottom line. What motivates employees to perform, to...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/trust-based-selling <div>Author: Green, Charles H.</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2006</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Is it possible for buyers and sellers to ever trust one another? The words “sales” or “salesperson” and “trust” are rarely used together. The reason that buyers do not trust sellers—or the sales process—is because they...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/bigger-isnt-always-better <div>Author: Tomasko, Robert M.</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>A big business is a successful business, or so goes contemporary thinking. In Bigger Isn't Always Better, Robert M. Tomasko, discusses his belief that growth does not necessarily mean getting bigger. He believes that...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/lean-solutions <div>Author: Womack, James P. | Jones, Daniel T.</div> <div>Publisher: Simon & Schuster</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</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>While consumers have a greater selection than ever before of high quality goods and services, all of which can be obtained from a growing number of sources, why are they not any happier than ever before? According to...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/think-big-act-small <div>Author: Jennings, Jason</div> <div>Publisher: The Penguin Group</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <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>Increasing profits and improving a company's financial performance have traditionally been done in one of three ways: by increasing revenues, cutting costs or downsizing, or cooking the books. For <strong>Think Big,...</strong></p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/lost-knowledge <div>Author: DeLong, David W.</div> <div>Publisher: Oxford University Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</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>The fact that baby boomers are retiring is probably news to no one. What is not widely publicized is that employees who have spent their entire career, or most of their career, with one company or organization, are...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/designing-customer-centric-organization <div>Author: Galbraith, Jay R.</div> <div>Publisher: Jossey-Bass</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership-development">Leadership Development</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>Studies show that, because sales to existing customers are more profitable than sales to new customers, today’s businesses are recognizing that establishing long-term customer relationships is the best way to ensure...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/world-flat <div>Author: Friedman, Thomas L.</div> <div>Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/global-business">Global Business</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/major-works">Major Works</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Although outsourcing is the current hot topic, Friedman reports that outsourcing is just one dimension of a much more fundamental phenomenon unfolding today – the flattening of the world. Massive technological...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/four-pillars-high-performance <div>Author: Light, Paul C.</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <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><strong>The Four Pillars of High Performance </strong>is a culmination of hundreds of studies by The RAND Corporation, the highly respected think tank out of Santa Monica, California, revealing a set of central truths...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/new-workforce <div>Author: Hankin, Harriet</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Kohler</div> <div>Published Date: 1995</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/diversity">Diversity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The difference between the market value of a publicly held company and its official net value is the value of its intangible assets. In most companies, the value of these assets exceeds the value of tangible holdings....</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/coming-concurrence <div>Author: Smith, J. Walker | Clurman, Ann | Wood, Craig</div> <div>Publisher: Racom Communications</div> <div>Published Date: 2005</div> <div>Categories: <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/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Marketing is in crisis mode, for the model for marketing, as it stands today, is obsolete. Customers have developed a resistance to marketing that is only going to grow. The crisis spawned by consumer resistance...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/idea-generator <div>Author: Bodek, Norman | Tozawa, Bunji</div> <div>Publisher: PCS Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2004</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</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><dl id="citationFields" class="citation-fields"> <dd><span>The book discusses a framework that enables a company to optimize utilization of its resources by directly involving all of its manpower in the enhancement and...</span></dd></dl></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/creativity-virtual-teams <div>Author: Nemiro, Jill E.</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2004</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/teams">Teams</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Written by Jill Nemiro—an expert in organizational and team creativity—Creativity in Virtual Teams offers readers a model for achieving high levels of creativity in a virtual environment. As a result of global...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/conquering-complexity-your-business <div>Author: George, Michael L. | Wilson, Steven A.</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2004</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/major-works">Major Works</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>According to George and Wilson, when companies rely solely on Lean and/or Six Sigma improvement initiatives, the amount of profit they are able to generate is severely limited. It is a ceiling on profit that comes from...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/confidence <div>Author: Kanter, Rosabeth Moss</div> <div>Publisher: Crown Business</div> <div>Published Date: 2004</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>According to Kanter, winning creates a “halo” effect, which encourages positive behavior, and positive behavior, in turn, makes further wins more likely. In addition, the probability of future success makes it easier...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/communication-catalyst <div>Author: Connolly, Mickey | Rianoshek, Richard</div> <div>Publisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing</div> <div>Published Date: 2002</div> <div>Categories: <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/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Co-authors Mickey Connolly and Richard Rianoshek do something extraordinary in the introduction of <strong>The Communication Catalyst</strong>. They make a promise. If readers take the time to read, understand, and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/leaders-voice <div>Author: Clark, Boyd | Crossland, Ron</div> <div>Publisher: SelectBooks, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2002</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/communication">Communication</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Often, leaders speak, their constituents applaud on cue, and the illusion is formed that communication has occurred. Unfortunately, this disconnect only breeds communication static that, over time, pushes leaders to...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/toyota-way <div>Author: Liker, Jeffrey K.</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</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/innovation">Innovation</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/major-works">Major Works</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>Everyone in the auto industry is so familiar with Toyota’s dramatic business success and world-renowned quality that, as Liker points out, many consider the company to be “boring,” with its steadily growing sales,...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/building-knowledge-driven-organization <div>Author: Buckman, Robert H.</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2004</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</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>If knowledge is power, then knowledge shared is knowledge multiplied. For many years, the knowledge that Buckman Laboratories, an international specialty chemical company in business since 1945, brought to its...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/power-full-engagement <div>Author: Loehr, Jim | Schwartz, Tony</div> <div>Publisher: Free Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2003</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In the fiercely competitive world that exists today, every possible advantage is needed. However, digital technology has produced such crushing workloads that everyone is forced to cram more and more into days that are...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/lean-thinking <div>Author: Womack, James P. | Jones, Daniel T.</div> <div>Publisher: The Free Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2003</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</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>In 1990, Womack and Jones published <strong>The Machine That Changed the World</strong>, with the objective of sending a wake-up call to organizations still struggling in the antiquated world of mass production. Thus,...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/how-winners-sell <div>Author: Stein, Dave</div> <div>Publisher: Bard Books</div> <div>Published Date: 2002</div> <div>Categories: <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/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Because technology has changed business so drastically, Stein believes that the sales principles and strategies professional salespeople learned in school, the techniques they read in books, and the tips, tricks, and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/deadline <div>Author: Carrison, Dan</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2003</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/leadership">Leadership</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>According to Carrison, when organizations face critical high-pressure deadlines, unique and creative skills and strategies, as well as major changes in management methods, operations, customer relationships, and other...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/less-more <div>Author: Jennings, Jason</div> <div>Publisher: Portfolio</div> <div>Published Date: 2002</div> <div>Categories: <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>All businesses want to increase productivity-to increase output while decreasing input, to lower costs while increasing profits, to accomplish more with the same or less. Nonetheless, as Jennings notes, nothing is more...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/new-law-demand-and-supply <div>Author: Kash, Rick</div> <div>Publisher: Doubleday/Currency</div> <div>Published Date: 2002</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/economics-finance">Economics & Finance</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>In his seminal treatise, <em>The Wealth of Nations</em>, Adam Smith set down the law of supply and demand, and while he did not emphasize supply over demand, during the ensuing 19th and 20th centuries, economists and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/order-chaos <div>Author: Davenport, Liz</div> <div>Publisher: Three Rivers Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2001</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Liz Davenport offers an easy system to help you clean up your act. If you find yourself missing important deadlines, forgetting to return calls, and misplacing papers, then follow these six simple steps to...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/managing-interactively <div>Author: Boone, Mary E.</div> <div>Publisher: McGraw-Hill</div> <div>Published Date: 2001</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/communication">Communication</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</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>Conventional wisdom understands fully that technology can help CEOs, executives, and managers communicate and lead; that it can transform corporate cultures; and that it can turn hierarchies upside down. But, what is...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/love-work-youre <div>Author: Whiteley, Richard C.</div> <div>Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2001</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/innovation">Innovation</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Everyone is inspired by highly successful people who enjoy their work and do their jobs with verve and enthusiasm. However, the fear and uncertainty that can be created by ever-changing circumstances in the business...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/fish <div>Author: Lundin, Stephen C. | Paul, Harry | Christensen, John</div> <div>Publisher: Hyperion Books</div> <div>Published Date: 2000</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In a reality where you may be working at a job that is not exactly ideal, here are ways to learn to love what you do, and make your workplace an energetic, enthusiastic and wonderful place to be. Through the delightful...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/future-perfect-0 <div>Author: Micklethwait, John</div> <div>Publisher: Times Books</div> <div>Published Date: 2000</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/economics-finance">Economics & Finance</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/global-business">Global Business</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>Without a doubt, globalization-the integration of the world economy-has become the most important economic, political, and cultural phenomenon of the times, reshaping business, transforming the lives of individuals,...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/roi-human-capital <div>Author: Fitz-enz, Jac</div> <div>Publisher: Amacom</div> <div>Published Date: 2000</div> <div>Categories: <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/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>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...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/trusted-partners <div>Author: Lewis, Jordan D.</div> <div>Publisher: The Free Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2000</div> <div>Categories: <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>In today’s business climate, alliances hold sway as an effective competitive strategy for businesses of all sizes, whether the alliance is between rivals, customers and suppliers, any combination of firms, mergers and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/e-profit <div>Author: Cohan, Peter S.</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 2000</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/technology">Technology</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In 1998, $74 billion worth of electronic commerce was conducted, and by the year 2002, that figure is expected to grow to $1.2 trillion. Obviously, e-commerce cannot be considered a short-lived management fad, but a...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/profit-building <div>Author: Ludy, Perry J.</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publications</div> <div>Published Date: 2000</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/teams">Teams</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Ludy's five-step process shows how to organize teams with the specific purpose of improving profit. When employees are involved in the cost reduction strategy and are actively seeking creative ways to cut costs and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/calm-work <div>Author: Wilson, Paul</div> <div>Publisher: Penguin Books</div> <div>Published Date: 1999</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Work can often be one of the most stressful situations in our lives. We have to work with people that we don't necessarily have anything in common with and perform boring and repetitive tasks. In the United States and...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/service-profit-chain <div>Author: Heskett, James L. | Sasser Jr., W. Earl | Schlesinger, Leonard A.</div> <div>Publisher: The Free Press</div> <div>Published Date: 1997</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>The Service Profit Chain</strong> demonstrates that leading companies maintain their leadership position by managing <strong>The Service Profit Chain</strong> - a quantifiable set of relationships that directly...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/managers-facilitators <div>Author: Weaver, Richard G. | Farrell, John D.</div> <div>Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers</div> <div>Published Date: 1997</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</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>The workplace is changing to such an extent that the amount of work demanded is more than individuals working alone can produce. The need for people to work together has lead to the creation of a great number of groups...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/dont-sweat-small-stuffand-its-all-small-stuff <div>Author: Carlson, Richard</div> <div>Publisher: Hyperion Books</div> <div>Published Date: 2003</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The co-author of "Handbook for the Soul" offers 100 simple but powerful strategies for bringing harmony and peace of mind into individual life. The strategies allow for changes in paradigm and changes in practice --...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/why-horse-wont-drink <div>Author: Matejka, Ken</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</div> <div>Published Date: 1990</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/human-resources">Human Resources</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>In <strong>Why This Horse Won’t Drink</strong>, Matejka explicitly states that employee happiness is not the issue, that it is not the manager’s job to make it happen. Management’s function is to set performance at the...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/machine-changed-world <div>Author: Womack, James P. | Jones, Daniel T. | Roos, Daniel</div> <div>Publisher: Rawson Associates</div> <div>Published Date: 1990</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/global-business">Global Business</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/productivity">Productivity</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p><strong>The Machine That Changed the World</strong> is devoted to a careful explanation of the logic and techniques of lean production. By extracting the universal principles of lean production from their initial...</p></div> Business Book Summaries: Productivity