Book Summaries
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by Jim Huling, Chris McChesney, Sean Covey
Item #:
3424
Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it's likely no one even noticed. What happened? The "whirlwind" of urgent activity required to keep things running day-to-day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest in executing your strategy for tomorrow. The 4 Disciplines of Execution can...
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by Stephen Drotter
Item #:
3405
From Stephen Drotter, coauthor of the bestselling book The Leadership Pipeline, comes the next-step resource designed to help leaders at every level succeed in an uncertain business environment. The Performance Pipeline is a groundbreaking book that is based on Stephen Drotter's forty years of in-depth work with more than 100 companies worldwide. The book defines how work flows from top to bottom and reveals what results each layer must produce and what each layer must pass...
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by Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy, Ph.D.
Item #:
FBR0710B
A Soundview Featured Book Review
The incredible pace of the modern workplace is creating damage that is often unseen until it's too late. This book attempts to address the issue and provides meaningful examples from scientific studies of performance. The authors attempt to reverse the roadblocks that individuals and organizations unwittingly put in front of themselves.
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by Dave Logan, Steve Zaffron
Item #:
3116
How do companies –– in different countries and industries –– all achieve breakthrough performance when the odds are stacked against them? The answer: By applying The Three Laws of Performance and thereby re-writing their futures. Authors Steve Zaffrron and Dave Logan crack the code on rewriting the future for people and organizations, elevating performance to unprecedented levels.
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by John P. Kotter
Item #:
FBR0409
A Soundview Featured Book Review
Bestselling author and business guru John Kotter shows what a true sense of urgency really is, why it is becoming an exceptionally important asset and how you can create and sustain it within your organization –– starting today.
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by Dov Seidman
Item #:
2923
According to Seidman, in this ever-increasingly competitive world, it’s not what you do, but how you do it that sets you apart from the pack.
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by Lawrence Hrebiniak
Item #:
2720
While formulating strategy is a challenge, executing that strategy can be an even greater challenge. In Making Strategy Work, Lawrence Hrebiniak offers a comprehensive, disciplined process model for making strategy work in the real world. This model covers every key success factor of effective execution, including organization structure, coordination, information sharing, incentives, controls, change management, culture and the role of power and influence in the process.
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by Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal
Item #:
2617
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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by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
Item #:
2429
Bossidy, the legendary CEO of Honeywell International, Inc., joins forces with consultant and prolific author Charan to explain how getting things done — not strategy, innovation or anything else — is the most important function of a leader. The authors examine in detail the three key processes of execution — people, strategy and operations — and show how all three are linked.
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