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 Change Monster: The Human Forces that Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change by Jeanie Daniel Duck Can you remember a time in the workplace when we haven’t been discussing the subject of change and how we must adapt to it if we are to survive? You’d think by now we’d not only accept…
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team by John C. Maxwell Known as America’s expert on leadership, John C. Maxwell has authored more than 25 books including bestsellers The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You, Failing Forward, and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. Those…
Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Organizations by Richard H. Axelrod For decades, organizations have been preaching the need for change. Fast Company chose this subject as a recent cover story for its rapidly growing readership. Everything in our lives seems to be changing on a regular basis—including the way we manage change. The…
The Influence Edge: How to Persuade Others to Help You Achieve Your Goals by Alan A. Vengel If you’re looking for a good read that allows you to sit back, relax, read, absorb content and assume that the author’s advice will work when the time comes—look elsewhere! While this is definitely a good read, the…
Get Weird! 101 Innovative Ways to Make Your Company a Great Place to Work by John Putzier Here we go again! Cute title, large number of suggestions, but same bottom line message … you’d better start concentrating on how to make your company a great place to work. If you don’t, your employees will find…
Contented Cows Give Better Milk by Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden Here we have another cute title designed to grab our attention in order to deliver a “simple as dirt” concept: A person’s degree of satisfaction with their work situation is entirely and directly related to their output. If this concept is so simple, why aren’t…
The Customer Revolution by Patricia B. Seybold For most companies, the issue of customers in charge is just coming onto the radar screen. For many, it was over before they had an inkling. Patricia Seybold, author of the influential, best-selling Customers.com, makes it plain in her most recent offering, that this can be either your…
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…