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10 Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution

10 Rules for Strategic Innovators:From Idea to Execution

Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble

Built To Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness

Built To Change:How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness

Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher Worley

Business Model You: A One-Page Method for Reinventing Your Career

Business Model You:A One-Page Method for Reinventing Your Career

Tim Clark, in collaboration with Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

CEO of Me: Creating a Life That Works in the Flexible Job Age

CEO of Me:Creating a Life That Works in the Flexible Job Age

Ellen Ernst Kossek and Brenda A. Lautsch

Clausewitz on Strategy: Inspiration and Insight from a Master Strategist

Clausewitz on Strategy:Inspiration and Insight from a Master Strategist

Tiha von Ghyczy, Christopher Bassford, Bolko von Oetinger

Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World

Grown Up Digital:How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World

Don Tapscott

If you don’t know what the Net Generation is, or how it will affect your business, this is the summary you need to hear. You will find out what several companies paid millions of dollars in research funding to discover — and in the process learn new ways of thinking, interacting, working, and socializing. This summary is a reminder that business in the digital world does not stand still, and neither should you.

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Head, Heart, and Guts: How the World's Best Companies Develop Complete Leaders

Head, Heart, and Guts:How the World's Best Companies Develop Complete Leaders

David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo, and Stephen H. Rhinesmith

How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths

How to Be Exceptional:Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths

John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, Robert H. Sherwin, Jr., Barbara A. Steel

How Will You Measure Your Life?

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon

If Your Life Were a Business, Would You Invest In It?: The 13-Step Program for Managing Your Life Like the Best CEO's Manage Their Companies

If Your Life Were a Business, Would You Invest In It?:The 13-Step Program for Managing Your Life Like the Best CEO's Manage Their Companies

John Eckblad and David Kiel

Have you ever wished you could apply the same discipline you use to run your business to the job of managing your life? Successful companies select priorities. They set goals. And they pursue those goals in well-planned, highly focused stages until they succeed.

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Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People

Impending Crisis:Too Many Jobs, Too Few People

Roger Herman, Thomas Olivo, and Joyce Gioia

Influence: Science and Practice

Influence:Science and Practice

Robert B. Cialdini

Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

Influencer:The Power to Change Anything

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan

Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

Judgment:How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis

Lateral Marketing: New Techniques for Finding Breakthrough Ideas

Lateral Marketing:New Techniques for Finding Breakthrough Ideas

Philip Kotler and Fernando Trias de Bes

Managing in the Next Society

Managing in the Next Society

Peter F. Drucker

Marketing Genius

Marketing Genius

Peter Fisk

Measure of a Leader: The Legendary Leadership Formula for Producing Exceptional Performers and Outstanding Results

Measure of a Leader:The Legendary Leadership Formula for Producing Exceptional Performers and Outstanding Results

Aubrey C. Daniels and James E. Daniels

With executive turnover at an all-time high, corporations are facing a leadership crisis. This crisis cannot be fixed by relying on the old stand-by qualities of personality, or the size of bottom-line profits, to measure the effectiveness of a leader. Instead, true leadership is all about how people react to what the leader says and does.

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Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better

Practice Perfect:42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better

Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, and Katie Yezzi

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Primal Leadership:Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, Richard E. Boyatzis

Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

Seeing What's Next:Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

Erik A. Roth, Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony

Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters

Success Built to Last:Creating a Life that Matters

Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership:Follow Them and People Will Follow You

John C. Maxwell

What would happen if a top expert with more than 40 years of leadership experience were willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a set of principles just for you?  It could change your life. In the summary, we will examine the 21 Laws and explain how you can apply each one to your life so you can become a more effective leader.

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The Company of the Future

The Company of the Future

Frances Cairncross

The Emotionally Intelligent Team: Understanding and Developing the Behaviors of Success

The Emotionally Intelligent Team:Understanding and Developing the Behaviors of Success

Marcia Hughes and James Bradford Terrell

Increasingly, the most important factor determining success or failure in our networked world is achieving teamwork across levels and boundaries — and emotional and social intelligence (ESI) is the key to harnessing this elusive factor. This summary reveals how individuals, team members, and leaders can take the steps to become “emotionally intelligent team members,” and shows how to put in place the practices and exercises that will help any team grow in emotional intelligence.

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The Engagement Equation: Leadership Strategies for an Inspired Workforce

The Engagement Equation:Leadership Strategies for an Inspired Workforce

Christopher Rice, Fraser Marlow, and Mary Ann Masarech

The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

The Innovator's Prescription:A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. and Jason Hwang, M.D.

The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

The Innovator's Solution:Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor

The Inside Advantage: The Strategy that Unlocks the Hidden Growth in Your Business

The Inside Advantage:The Strategy that Unlocks the Hidden Growth in Your Business

Robert H. Bloom with Dave Conti

Every executive must make a brutal choice: Grow the business, or watch it die. In today’s intensively competitive, technology-driven global marketplace, no enterprise, including yours, can be sustained without growth. In this summary, the author will show you how any company, of any size, can use The Growth Discovery Process to identify the hidden potential within its business and use it as a catalyst to growth.

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The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly

The New Rules of Marketing and PR:How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly

David Meerman Scott

In the past, marketers had to communicate either through expensive advertising or PR efforts filtered through traditional media.  But now, the rules have changed for the better.   Learn how to leverage the Web’s vast marketing potential, which will enable you to reach niche buyers with targeted messages that cost a fraction of your big-budget advertising campaign.

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Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor

Transparency:How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor

Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James O'Toole With Patricia Ward Biederman

Trout on Strategy

Trout on Strategy

Jack Trout

True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership

True North:Discover Your Authentic Leadership

Bill George with Peter Sims

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

What Got You Here Won't Get You There:How Successful People Become Even More Successful

Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter

No matter how successful you are, there may be something standing between you and the next level of achievement. That something may just be one of your own annoying habits. Perhaps one small flaw, a behavior you don’t even recognize, is the only thing that is keeping you from where you want to be.

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What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success

What Really Works:The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success

Nitin Nohria, William A. Joyce, Bruce Roberson

What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking

What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking

Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak, H. James Wilson

YES!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

YES!:50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, and Robert B. Cialdini