Management

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.

Judgment on the Front Line

by Chris DeRose, Noel Tichy

Item #: 36BS08

Management experts Chris DeRose and Noel M. Tichy explain why frontline employees are so important and why it is crucial to involve them in decision making. Judgment on the Front Line provides a five-step process for building a frontline-focused organization and includes examples of frontline leadership in action.

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Sticking Points

by Haydn Shaw

Item #: 36ETFS

For the first time in American History we have four different generations working together in the workplace. In Sticking Points, Haydn Shaw, identifies 12 places where the 4 generations typically come apart in work and in life. These sticking points revolve around differing attitudes toward time management, texting, social media, organizational structure and fashion.

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Flex

by Jane Hyun, Audrey Lee

Item #: 3618

Flex offers a proactive strategy for managers to navigate and leverage diversity effectively. Lessons from the authors will help managers of multicultural workers to bridge the gap with more effective communication, feedback tools, building healthy teams and closing the...

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Moments of Impact

by Lisa Kay Solomon, Chris Ertel

Item #: 3616

Moments of Impact provides a creative process by which leaders can make good strategic choices while engaging more people with different perspectives more effectively.

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The Learned Disciplines of Management

by Jim Burkett

Item #: 3611

In The Learned Disciplines of Management, Jim Burkett presents a framework of individual disciplines that form a self-reinforcing management system for making the right things happen. These include planning, organizing, measuring performance, executing, following up, real-time reporting and problem solving.

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The 80/20 Manager

by Richard Koch

Item #: 3608

Bestselling author Richard Koch demonstrates how managers can be much more efficient and effective by applying the 80/20 Principle - the idea that just 20 percent of our time, effort and key decisions generate 80 percent of our success. The 80/20 Manager can help managers to focus on the issues that really matter, ask the right questions, find the right connections and realize meaningful achievement for their businesses and themselves.

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Relationship Economics

by David Nour

Item #: 3528

Based on David Nour’s global speaking and consulting engagements, Relationship Economics reveals that success comes from investing in people for extraordinary returns. Three major types of relationships are explained –– personal, functional and strategic –– including how to focus on each to fuel enterprise growth. Nour introduces new concepts in relationship management that can increase your ability to turn valuable business contacts into personal and professional success.

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The Fearless Front Line

by Ray Attiyah

Item #: 3526

The Fearless Front Line is a call to action for leaders to set a standard of fearlessness where their frontline workers take pride in and take ownership of their critical roles. This, in turn, frees leaders to focus on the big-picture, bold strategies that can improve and grow the business. Ray Attiyah’s proven Run-Improve-Grow model for continuous improvement will stimulate a culture of consistent growth and constant innovation.

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Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication

by James E. Lukaszewski

Item #: 3525

In this industry-defining book on crisis management and leadership recovery, James Lukaszewski introduces a concept rarely dealt with in crisis communication and operational response planning: managing the victim dimension of crisis. Delivered in his straight-talking style backed with compelling case studies, Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication is your guide to preparing for a crisis and the explosive visibility that comes with it.

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