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Doing the Right Things Right

How the Effective Executive Spends Time

by Laura Stack

Doing the right things right requires leaders to manage the intersection of efficiency and effectiveness and follow 12 related practices outlined by Stack. Each of the 12 practices belongs to one of the 3T categories of strategic thinking, team focus, and tactical work, ultimately disclosing how to improve profitability and productivity.

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From Impossible to Inevitable

How Hypergrowth Companies Create Predictable Revenue

by Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin

The world’s fastest growing companies share seven ingredients in their recipes for hypergrowth. Ross and Lemkin break these down into steps that leaders can easily use as a guide for growing their businesses and increasing revenue.

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The Decoded Company

Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers

by Aaron Goldstein, Rahaf Harfoush, Leerom Segal, Jay Goldman

The authors present an actionable plan for any company that wants the best from its people and isn’t afraid of radical approaches to achieve it. Six proven principles are offered that can be used to decode work and unlock the potential of employees.

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Heads Up

Using Real-Time Business Information to Know First and Act Faster

by Kenneth G. McGee

According to Kenneth G. McGee, a research fellow at Gartner Inc., even the worst business catastrophes rarely happen without warning. In Heads Up, McGee describes how managers can break the pervasive pattern of surprises that are often followed by desperate responses. Instead of trying to predict the future, McGee explains, managers need to master predicting the present — understanding what is happening right now and how these current events and outcomes will impact future success. By r

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A Bias for Action

How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower to Achieve Results

by Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal

In A Bias for Action, leadership expert Heike Bruch and management expert Sumantra Ghoshal demonstrate that managers often confuse activity with accomplishments, and motivation with true leadership. Based on the authors’ research across numerous industries, and illustrated with personal case studies from BP, Sony, GE, Philips and others, this summary reveals how great managers get results by engaging their own willpower through a combination of energy and focus. The authors present simp

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Don't Think Pink

What Really Makes Women Buy: And How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market

by Andrea Learned, Lisa Johnson

You can no longer “think pink” by assuming that all women are the same and all they want are pastel colored products with hearts and flowers on them. Generational experiences, lifestyle choices, and demographic characteristics combine to define the filters through which women make buying choices. Lisa Johnson and Andrea Learned are co-founders of ReachWomen, a firm specializing in the behavior of women as consumers. By examining the different ways women think and how companies can engage women w

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The Age of Unreason

by Charles Handy

The future world of work looks mighty different than it does now. Catch a glimpse of it before it bowls you over.

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