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Soundview Executive Book Summaries® publishes summaries of the best business books of each year on management issues including change management, managing people, crisis management, managing a virtual workforce, project management and more. Browse our extensive collection of management book summaries to solve your most difficult issues.

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The Age of Agile

How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done

by Stephen Denning

The Agile movement enables a team, a unit or an enterprise to nimbly adapt and upgrade products and services to meet rapidly changing technology and customer needs.

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The Star Factor

Discover What Your Top Performers Do Differently - And Inspire a New Level of Greatness in All

by William Seidman, Richard Grbavac

In every company, a select few produce more, sell more and deliver better results. The Star Factor delivers a unique system for unlocking their wisdom

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Digital@Scale

The Playbook You Need to Transform Your Company

by Jürgen Meffert, Anand Swaminathan

Organizations need to unlock the full value of digital. In this summary Jürgen Meffert and Anand Swaminathan guide you through the three pillars of a successful digital transformation.

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The Future-Proof Workplace

Six Strategies to Accelerate Talent Development, Reshape Your Culture, and Succeed with Purpose

by Morag Barrett, Linda D. Sharkey, Ph.D.

The Future-Proof Workplace is a survival guide for the new realities of business. It highlights the changes already taking place: the transition from skills to knowledge, the neuroscience approach to leadership and motivation, galloping technical advances and more.

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Extreme Teams

Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail

by Robert Bruce Shaw

Extreme Teams will push you to think about teams and groups in new ways and help you to move your team to the next level of engagement and performance by going beyond traditional methods.

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Mastering Civility

A Manifesto for the Workplace

by Christine Porath

Christine Porath shows how people can enhance their influence and effectiveness with civility.

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Yes, And

How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration

by Tom Yorton, Kelly Leonard

Executives from The Second City, the world’s premier comedy theater and school of improvisation, provide a toolkit for individuals and organizations to use to thrive in a world increasingly shaped by speed, social communication, and decentralization.

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The Best Place to Work

The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

by Ron Friedman

In The Best Place to Work, award-winning psychologist Ron Friedman, Ph.D. draws from the latest research on motivation, creativity, behavioral economics, neuroscience, and management to reveal what really makes us successful at work.

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Negotiating the Impossible

How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (Without Money or Muscle)

by Deepak Malhotra

In Negotiating the Impossible, Harvard professor and negotiation adviser Deepak Malhotra shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible.

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