2008 Summaries
Executive Book Summaries of the 30 Best Business Books of 2008
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by John Gerzema, Edward Lebar
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3030
The number of high-performance, value-creating brands is diminishing across the board. Yet at the same time, the financial markets keep raising brand valuations. The result: a brand bubble that could erase large portions of corporate intangible value and send another shockwave through the global economy.
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by Howard M. Guttman
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3029
Renowned business consultant Howard M. Guttman takes you inside some of the word’s most successful corporations to discover how a powerful new high-performance horizontal model has changed the way leaders lead, team members function, challenges are met, and decisions are made.
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by Tim Sanders
Item #:
3028
A "Responsibility Revolution" is shaking up corporate America. In this provocative and insightful book, bestselling author Tim Sanders reveals why companies must go beyond making a profit and start making a difference and offers concrete suggestions on how all of us can help our companies join the Responsibility Revolution.
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by Patrick Viguerie, Sven Smit, Mehrdad Baghai
Item #:
3027
While growth is a top priority for companies of all sizes, it can be extremely difficult to maintain — especially in today's competitive business environment. In order to achieve this goal, you need to think through the growth challenges your organization faces and follow a detailed approach to uncover, understand and capture potential growth opportunities.
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by Brian Dive
Item #:
3026
Centered around three themes — leadership, accountability and organizational structure — this book explores what it means for managers to be held accountable at every level and argues that most leadership-related problems arise from the ineffectiveness of organizational structures that lack accountable jobs.
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by Norihiko Shimizu, Emi Osono, Hirotaka Takeuchi
Item #:
3025
Three business strategy experts identify six contradictory forces that have kept Toyota on the path of realizing continuous innovation and constant renewal. As the authors show, Toyota thrives on paradoxes as it harnesses opposing propositions to energize itself. We learn that companies that create their own contradictions can achieve higher levels of performance.
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by Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman
Item #:
3024
Brothers and authors Ori and Rom Brafman explore several of the psychological forces that derail rational thinking. We are all more prone to irrational behavior than we realize and this can affect our careers and shape our business and personal relationships. Understanding why the sway of irrational behavior is so alluring can help us to become more aware of it and perhaps less likely to fall victim to its force.
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by JC Larreche
Item #:
3023
Jean-Claude Larreche presents a systematic approach for the design and execution of momentum strategy. He shows how to create new value through momentum and outlines a framework for building the leadership competencies that will deliver profitable growth. Larreche offers a pathway for harnessing the power of the momentum effect, adaptable for use by any business, in any industry under any market condition.
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by Michael Gurian, Barbara Annis
Item #:
3022
Gender experts Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis explore what the latest scientific studies reveal about male/female brain differences and explain how these impact the ways men and women negotiate, communicate, lead and run meetings. Then they teach how to use this scientific gender intelligence for business success.
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