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2013 Summaries
- April The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything
- April Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues
- March Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader: Proven Strategies for Building Excellence in Your Organization
- March Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better
- February Think Like a Futurist: Know What Changes, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next
- February Get Productive!: Boosting Your Productivity and Getting Things Done
- January Creative Execution: What Great Leaders Do To Unleash Bold Thinking and Innovation
- January Win With Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data
2012 Summaries
- December Crafting the Customer Experience For People Not Like You: How to Delight and Engage the Customers Your Competitors Don't Understand
- December How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths
- November Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter Corporations
- November The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
- October Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy is Wrong
- October Business Model You: A One-Page Method for Reinventing Your Career
- September Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
- September Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
- August The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen
- August The Loyalty Leap: Turning Customer Information into Customer Intimacy
- July Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business
- July Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth
- June The Business Model Innovation Factory: How to Stay Relevant When The World is Changing
- June How Will You Measure Your Life?
- May Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership
- May What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition and Unstoppable Innovation
- April Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands
- April Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World
- March Taking People with You: The Only Way to Make BIG Things Happen
- March Need, Speed, and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most Wicked Problems
- February Emotionomics: Leveraging Emotions for Business Success
- February The Innovator's Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth
- 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
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