http://www.bizsum.com/ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:00:11 -0400 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:04:12 -0400 http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/and-clients-went-wild <div>Author: Kuzmeski, Maribeth</div> <div>Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</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></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Successful companies understand how to reach out to people who are interested in their products and services, creating a strong emotional connection. In <strong>…And the Clients Went Wild!</strong>, Maribeth Kuzmeski...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/1000-dollars-idea <div>Author: Wyly, Sam</div> <div>Publisher: Sam Wyly, Newmarket Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-strategy">Business Strategy</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><dl id="citationFields" class="citation-fields"> <p><span>My work is to create companies and build them," writes Sam Wyly in this candid and engrossing account of the process, relationships, struggles, and strategies in...</span></p></dl></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-be-successful-manager <div>Author: Haneberg, Lisa</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2007</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Successful businesses rely on great managers. Effective management practices enable organizations to identify new opportunities, execute strategies successfully, and complete projects on time and on budget. However,...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-business-writing <div>Author: Appleman, Jack E.</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>While studies point to an inadequate level of writing in the business world, most business professionals view writing as a soft skill that is not worth an investment of time and money. Recently, however, some employers...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-change-management <div>Author: Vukotich, George</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/change-management">Change Management</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Change happens. There is simply no stopping it. In <strong>10 Steps to Successful Change Management</strong>, George Vukotich offers those faced with change at an organizational level a systemized, ten-step system to “...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-coaching <div>Author: Oberstein, Sophie</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</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/leadership-development">Leadership Development</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Workplace coaching has gained in popularity, and it has evolved from being viewed as a punishment for poor performance to a perk for those being groomed for positions of greater responsibility. In <strong>10 Steps to...</strong></p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-customer-service <div>Author: Kamin, Maxine</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Customer service is based on a trusting relationship between customer and business. Clients come to customer service representatives with a need. Great service staff will be able to deal with these needs no matter how...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-facilitation <div>Author: ASTD Editors</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/teams">Teams</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In&nbsp;<strong>10 Steps to Successful Facilitation</strong>, the American Society for Training and Development provides detailed instructions on becoming an effective and skillful facilitator. It discusses the...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries 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> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-presentations <div>Author: ASTD Editors</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2008</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/communication">Communication</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>It is not unusual for today’s business professional to be expected to deliver effective communication and presentation skills.&nbsp;<strong>Ten Steps to Successful Presentations&nbsp;</strong>by the American Society...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries 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> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-sales <div>Author: Lambert, Brian</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/customer-focus">Customer Focus</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Sales is among the oldest and most conflicted professions on earth — at once reviled and revered, valued for its promise of heavy paychecks and prestigious career paths, maligned for its loose ethics, and made...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-social-networking-business <div>Author: Hartley, Darin</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/technology">Technology</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Determining the right social networking platform for a business can be a daunting decision. From off-the-shelf to custom-built, there are many options. <strong>10 Steps to Successful Social Networking for Business...</strong></p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries 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> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-teams <div>Author: McClay, Renie</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</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/teams">Teams</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>10 Steps to Successful Teams by Renie McClay is a guide for team leaders and team members who are charged with accomplishing tasks through collaborative workforce groups. Organizations that use teams effectively...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries 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> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-training <div>Author: Biech, Elaine</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</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/personal-growth">Personal Growth</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Training programs are only as effective as the trainers who design them, and <strong>10 Steps to Successful Training</strong> explains in detail the characteristics, actions and behaviors that define truly successful...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-steps-successful-virtual-presentations <div>Author: Turmel, Wayne</div> <div>Publisher: ASTD Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2011</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/communication">Communication</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/technology">Technology</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The need for virtual presentations is growing. Seventy percent of managers in mid-sized to large companies have at least one team member who works remotely. However, over half of managers have not received any formal...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/10-things-keep-ceos-awake <div>Author: Coffey, Elizabeth</div> <div>Publisher: Elizabeth Coffey, McGraw-Hill Business</div> <div>Published Date: 2003</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></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><dl id="citationFields" class="citation-fields"> <p><span>Liz Coffey and her colleagues coach top CEOs, addressing the 10 primary concerns that keep them sleepless in their executive suites:</span><span> developing...</span></p></dl></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/100-ways-motivate-others <div>Author: Chandler, Steve | Richardson, Scott</div> <div>Publisher: Steve Chandler and Scott Richardson, Career Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2006</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/social-responsibility">Social Responsibility</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><dl id="citationFields" class="citation-fields"> <p><span>Bestselling author Steve Chandler and lawyer Scott Richardson show readers how to get the best results from their people.</span><span> They show how leaders must...</span></p></dl></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/101-survival-tips-your-business <div>Author: Griffiths, Andrew</div> <div>Publisher: Andre Griffiths, Jaico Publishing House</div> <div>Published Date: 2002</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><dl id="citationFields" class="citation-fields"> <p><span>Running a business is difficult and demanding at the best of times and for all sorts of reasons.</span><span> Entrepreneurs and managers alike need to learn how to...</span></p></dl></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/12-steps-power-presence <div>Author: Baldoni, John</div> <div>Publisher: AMACOM</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/management">Management</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Assigned positions, titles, and roles confer the framework for managing power, but true leadership comes from leadership presence. So writes leadership guru John Baldoni, who dedicates <strong>12 Steps to Power...</strong></p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/12-elements-great-managing <div>Author: Wagner, Rodd | Harter, PH.D., James K.</div> <div>Publisher: Gallup Press</div> <div>Published Date: 2006</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/management">Management</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>Engaged, talented employees are a company’s greatest resource. Yet many mangers fail, through both neglect and ignorance, to bring out the best in their workforce. To determine the crucial components of great...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/13-bankers <div>Author: Johnson, Simon | Kwak, James</div> <div>Publisher: Pantheon Books</div> <div>Published Date: 2010</div> <div>Categories: <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/business-biographies">Business Biographies</a>, <a href="http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/category/economics-finance">Economics & Finance</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>In March 2009, 13 executives of the most powerful financial institutions in America met with the president at the White House at the height of a profound financial crisis which threatened the very existence of the...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries http://www.bizsum.com/summaries/1992-strategies-single-market <div>Author: Dudley, James W.</div> <div>Publisher: Productivity Press</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/marketing">Marketing</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><p>The lack of common policy for external trade, a chaotic period of adjustment, the inward looking approach to creating a competitive environment, and the lack of a common currency are inherent weaknesses that may...</p></div> New Titles | Business Book Summaries