Book Summaries
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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 Steve Miller
Item #:
FBR1008
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Steve Miller has earned an international reputation for fixing major problems in several industries. In The Turnaround Kid he recounts his inside view of American manufacturing and offers perspective on what it will take to bring it back to profitability. In his story he incorporates the important role that his wife played in his success and how she kept him focused even throughout her battle with brain cancer.
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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 George Soros
Item #:
30NTFS
In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval in decades, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom-and-bust cycles and dominate global economic activity. The prevailing paradigm for financial markets — that markets tend toward equilibrium an
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by Bob Matha, Macy Boehm
Item #:
30LTFS
Leadership communications experts Bob Matha and Macy Boehm offer a strategic plan for addressing one of the most difficult challenges any business leader can face: engaging employees to take action. Written for all those who lead groups — including supervisors, managers, HR and communications professionals, executives and CEOs — this practical resource describes how to put in place proven communication principles that do just that.
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