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2012 Summaries
January
Winning With People: Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time
January
Real-Time Marketing and PR: How to Instantly Engage Your Market, Connect with Customers, and Create Products that Grow Your Business Now
2011 Summaries
December
The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company
December
One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership
November
The Breakthrough Imperative: How the Best Managers Get Outstanding Results
November
Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past
October
Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level
October
Kick-Ass Business and Marketing Secrets: How to Blitz Your Competition
September
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
September
The Google Way: How One Company is Revolutionizing Management as We Know It
August
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
August
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
July
The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed
July
The Innovator's Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation
June
The Blame Game: How the Hidden Rules of Credit and Blame Determine Our Success or Failure
June
Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
May
Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary
May
Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity
April
How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You're In
April
What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services
March
Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant
March
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
February
UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.
February
Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible
January
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
January
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
2010 Summaries
December
Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity
December
Service Innovation: How to Go From Customer Needs to Breakthrough Services
November
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success
November
The Buying Brain: Secrets for Selling to the Subconscious Mind
October
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
October
Mastering the 7 Essentials of High-Growth Companies: Effective Lessons to Grow Your Business
September
Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results
September
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
August
Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation
August
The Innovator's Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth
July
Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones
June
The Stress Effect: Why Smart Leaders Make Dumb Decisions -- And What to Do About It
June
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm
May
Everything Counts!: 52 Remarkable Ways to Inspire Excellence and Drive Results
May
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
April
Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
April
Re-Engage: How America's Best Places to Work Inspire Extra Effort in Extraordinary Times
March
Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage
March
Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary
February
The Shift: The Transformation of Today's Marketers into Tomorrow's Growth Leaders
February
Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business
January
Repositioning: Marketing in an Era of Competition, Change, and Crisis
January
It's Not As Bad As You Think: Why Capitalism Trumps Fear and the Economy Will Thrive
2009 Summaries
December
Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others
December
What Americans Really Want... Really: The Truth About Our Hopes, Dreams, and Fears
November
Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
November
Always A Winner: Finding Your Competitive Advantage in an Up and Down Economy
October
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
October
Stop Acting Rich: And Start Living Like a Real Millionaire
September
Thank God It's Monday: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love
September
The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business From Stagnation to Stunning Growth In Tough Economic Times
August
Snap Judgment: When to Trust Your Instincts, When to Ignore Them, and How to Avoid Making Big Mistakes with Your Money
August
Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times
July
From Lemons to Lemonade: Squeeze Every Last Drop of Success Out of Your Mistakes
July
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
June
The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life
June
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
May
Work Wanted: Protect Your Retirement Plans in Uncertain Times
May
Rethink: A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation
April
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World
April
Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules: The Lost Writings
March
Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen
March
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
February
The New Art of Managing People: Updated and Revised Person-to-Person Skills, Guidelines, and Techniques Every Manager Needs to Guide, Direct, and Motivate the Team
February
YES!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
January
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
January
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
2008 Summaries
December
Influence: Science and Practice
December
Prove It Before You Promote It: How to Take the Guesswork Out of Marketing
November
Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business
November
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
October
Executive Warfare: 10 Rules of Engagement for Winning Your War for Success
October
In Search of The Obvious: The Antidote for Today's Marketing Mess
September
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
September
Tuned In: Uncover the Extraordinary Opportunities That Lead to Business Breakthroughs
August
The Leadership Challenge: The Most Trusted Source on Becoming a Better Leader
August
The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-Created Value Through Global Networks
July
Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor
July
Business Genius: A More Inspired Approach to Business Growth
June
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
June
The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
May
CEO of Me: Creating A Life That Works In the Flexible Job Age
May
The 7 Triggers to Yes: The New Science Behind Influencing People's Decisions
April
Rules To Break & Laws To Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism
April
Marketing Genius
March
The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You
March
Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat
February
How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business (and in Life)
February
Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls
January
The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World
January
The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas
2007 Summaries
December
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace And Surviving One That Isn't
December
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
November
The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly
November
The Inside Advantage: The Strategy that Unlocks the Hidden Growth in Your Business
October
The Strategy Paradox: Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it)
October
The Emotionally Intelligent Team: Understanding and Developing the Behaviors of Success
September
The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies
September
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
August
The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't
August
Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth from Talent in the 21st Century Organization
July
Your Gut is Still Not Smarter Than Your Head: How Fact-Based Marketing Can Drive Extraordinary Growth and Profits
July
Power and Influence: The Rules Have Changed
June
Measure of a Leader: The Legendary Leadership Formula for Producing Exceptional Performers and Outstanding Results
June
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
May
GIMME!: The Human Nature of Successful Marketing
May
So Smart, But...: How Intelligent People Lose Credibility and How They Can Get It Back
April
Exceeding Customer Expectations: What Enterprise, America’s #1 Car Rental Company, Can Teach You About Creating Lifetime Customers
April
The Three Tensions: Winning the Struggle to Perform Without Compromise
March
Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
March
360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
February
Break from The Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy
February
More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
January
The Secret to GE's Success: A Former Insider Reveals the Management Strategies
January
Wal-Smart: What It Really Takes to Profit in a Wal-Mart World
2006 Summaries
December
Unleashing the Power of PR: A Contrarian's Guide to Marketing and Communication
December
The Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine... And What Smart Companies Are Doing About It
November
Great Employees Only: How Gifted Bosses Hire and De-Hire Their Way to Success
November
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
October
Living The 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More
October
Covert Persuasion: Psychological Tactics and Tricks to Win the Game
September
Kiss Theory Good Bye: Five Proven Ways to Get Extraordinary Results in Any Company
September
Mind Your X's and Y's: Satisfying the 10 Cravings of a New Generation of Consumers
August
Managing The Dynamics of Change: The Fastest Path To Creating An Engaged And Productive Workforce
August
Creating Competitive Advantage: Give Customers a Reason to Choose You Over Your Competitors
July
The Must-Have Customer: 7 Steps to Winning the Customer You Haven't Got
July
The Managerial Moment of Truth: The Essential Step in Helping People Improve Performance
June
Brand From the Inside: Eight Essentials to Emotionally Connect Your Employees to Your Business
June
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction, and Economics
May
Head, Heart, and Guts: How the World's Best Companies Develop Complete Leaders
May
Shake That Brain!: How to Create Winning Solutions and Have Fun While You're At It
April
The Wizard and the Warrior: Leading with Passion and Power
April
Results Rule!: Build a Culture That Blows the Competition Away
March
FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change
March
Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth
February
Nanofuture: What's Next For Nanotechnology
February
Built To Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness
January
Brand Sense: Build Powerful Brands through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Sound
January
Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy
2005 Summaries
December
Why Johnny Can't Brand: Rediscovering the Lost Art of the Big Idea
December
10 Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
November
Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion
November
Lateral Marketing: New Techniques for Finding Breakthrough Ideas
October
Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World
October
The Irresistible Offer: How to Sell Your Product or Service in 3 Seconds or Less
September
Loyalty Myths: Hyped Strategies That Will Put You Out of Business and Proven Tactics That Really Work
September
Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances and Results from Knowledge Workers
August
Breakthrough Business Results with MVT: A Fast, Cost-Free, "Secret Weapon" for Boosting Sales, Cutting Expenses, and Improving Any Business Process
August
Innovation that Fits: Moving Beyond the Fads to Choose the RIGHT Innovation Strategy for Your Business
July
Tough Management: The 7 Winning Ways to Make Tough Decisions Easier, Deliver the Numbers, and Grow the Business in Good Times and Bad
July
Life After the 30-Second Spot: Energize Your Brand With a Bold Mix of Alternatives to Traditional Advertising
June
Banishing Burnout: Six Strategies for Improving Your Relationship with Work
June
Top Down: Why Hierarchies Are Here to Stay and How to Manage Them More Effectively
May
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
May
Influence Without Authority: How to Lead People Who Don't Report to You - How to Build Effective Relationships and Create Allies - How to Influence Your Boss, Peers, Clients, and Other Partners
April
Coming to Concurrence: Addressable Attitudes and the New Model for Marketing Productivity
April
Marketbusters: 40 Strategic Moves That Drive Exceptional Business Growth
March
Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom
March
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
February
How Industries Evolve: Principles for Achieving and Sustaining Superior Performance
February
Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets
January
Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality
January
Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior
2004 Summaries
December
World Out of Balance: Navigating Global Risks to Seize Competitive Advantage
December
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
November
Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them
November
The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures
October
Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors
October
The Underdog Advantage: Using the Power of Insurgent Strategy to Put Your Business on Top
September
The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations
September
Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
August
Simply Better: Winning and Keeping Customers by Delivering What Matters Most
August
Rational Exuberance: Silencing the Enemies of Growth and Why the Future Is Better Than You Think
July
The Origin of Brands: Discover the Natural Laws of Product Innovation and Business Survival
July
A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting Time
June
The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life
June
Change Without Pain: How Managers Can Overcome Initiative Overload, Organizational Chaos, and Employee Burnout
May
Conquering Complexity in Your Business: How Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Other Top Companies Are Breaking Through the Ceiling on Profits and Growth
May
Ten Deadly Marketing Sins: Signs and Solutions
April
Breakthrough: How Great Companies Set Outrageous Objectives and Achieve Them
April
Heads Up: How to Anticipate Business Surprises and Seize Opportunities First
March
Trout on Strategy
February
Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It
February
Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes
January
Markets, Mobs and Mayhem: How to Profit From the Madness of Crowds
January
Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots
2003 Summaries
December
United We Brand: How to Create a Cohesive Brand That's Seen, Heard, and Remembered
December
Play To Your Strengths: Managing Your Internal Labor Markets for Lasting Competitive Advantage
November
The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best
November
Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
October
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
October
Digital Deflation: The Productivity Revolution and How It Will Ignite the Economy
September
The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business
September
Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self
August
The Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy
August
Cycles: How We Will Live, Work, and Buy
July
How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate
July
It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business
June
What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking
June
Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People
May
What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success
May
What the Best CEOs Know: 7 Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming any Business
April
Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better at What You Do
April
The Myth of Market Share: Why Market Share Is the Fool's Gold of Business
March
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
March
The Company of the Future
February
How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market
February
Unnatural Leadership: Going Against Intuition and Experience to Develop Ten New Leadership Instincts
January
Priceless: Turning Ordinary Products into Extraordinary Experiences
January
The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership
2002 Summaries
December
The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership
December
Big Brands, Big Trouble: Lessons Learned the Hard Way
November
Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces
November
Agile Business for Fragile Times: Strategies for Enhancing Competitive Resiliency and Stakeholder Trust
October
24/7 Innovation: A Blueprint for Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Change
October
Creating the Innovation Culture: Leveraging Visionaries, Dissenters & Other Useful Troublemakers
September
60 Trends in 60 Minutes
September
Blindsided: How to Spot the Next Breakthrough That Will Change Your Business
August
How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad
August
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
July
The GE Work-Out: How to Implement GE's Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy & Attacking Organizational Problems - Fast!
July
Managing in the Next Society
June
Business Expectations: Are You Using Your Technology to Its Fullest?
June
The Leader's Edge: Six Creative Competencies for Navigating Complex Challenges
May
Beyond Disruption: Changing the Rules in the Marketplace
May
The Phoenix Effect: 9 Revitalizing Strategies No Business Can Do Without
April
The Rule of Three: Surviving and Thriving in Competitive Markets
April
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
March
The Next Economy: Will You Know Where Your Customers Are?
March
Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
February
Customer Relationship Management: A Strategic Imperative in the World of E-Business
February
Clausewitz on Strategy: Inspiration and Insight from a Master Strategist
January
Upside-Down Marketing: Turning Your Ex-Customers into Your Best Customers
January
The Agenda: What Every Business Must Do to Dominate the Decade
2001 Summaries
December
Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
2000 Summaries
September
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
1995 Summaries
September
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change