Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t by Jim Collins If you read, enjoyed, and benefited from Built to Last, and you should have, you’ll be anxious to get your hands on Jim Collins’ latest contribution to managers and CEOs everywhere. In that previous classic, the result of a…
Longaberger: An American Success Story by Dave Longaberger “They” say you should never judge a book by its cover. “They” are not always right. In this case, it’s just the opposite. At first glance, you see a picture of what looks like a picnic basket covering 2/3 of the cover. Upon close examination, you see…
The Ultimate Business Library: 50 Books That Shaped Management Thinking (Ultimate Business Series) by Stuart Crainer Here is a Business Library for your business library. In 323 pages, you’ll find a one-stop guide that provides succinct, insightful summaries of 50 books that have changed the business world—broken new ground, set new standards, or revolutionized old,…
The 108 Skills of Natural Born Leaders by Warren Blank The myth of “born leaders” has been with us for decades. However, that myth misses an important fact: the qualities great leaders display are waiting in all of us to be discovered, developed, and magnified. No one is actually born a leader. Anyone can become…
The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success by Brian Tracy I’ll be short with this one. For more than 30 years, Brian Tracy has been teaching the world about business success via his best-selling books and audio tapes. This book is the bottom-line, cut-to-the-chase, keep-it-simple success guide. Here is a set of principles or “universal laws”…
Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People by Bradford D. Smart, Ph.D. THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED. Those predisposed to protect “dead wood” will take issue with the basic underlying philosophy of this book. Those who, way down deep, would sooner see an organization die than nudge…
It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small … It’s the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business by Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton Why is AOL the most profitable new media company in the world, swallowing up one company after another and adding millions of new subscribers,…
The Mind of the CEO by Jeffrey E. Garten If you ran across this “jewel” in your favorite bookstore and read the few words that appear on the cover, you’d want to sit down and immediately investigate further. It reads: “Suppose you had the chance to travel around the globe and meet today’s most powerful…
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni This is the stunning follow-up to the author’s best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO. You’ll certainly enjoy the author’s profound insights and the simplicity of his theories. According to Lencioni, there are truly only four things that should keep you,…