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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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Business Chemistry

Practical Magic for Crafting Powerful Work Relationships

by Kim Christfort, Suzanne Vickberg

Business Chemistry will help you grasp where others are coming from, appreciate the value they bring, and determine what they need in order to excel.

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Powered by Storytelling

Excavate, Craft and Present Stories to Transform Business Communication

by Murray Nossel

Executive coach, motivational speaker and psychologist Murray Nossel, Ph.D., distills decades of experience into a simple method that will enable you to find the right story for a particular audience and purpose.

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Divide or Conquer

How Great Teams Turn Conflict Into Strength

by Diana McLain Smith

In Divide or Conquer, Diana McLain Smith distills almost thirty years of experience studying and advising leaders to offer a new way to think about teams –– not as a bunch of individuals, but as the sum of their relationships.

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What Would Google Do?

by Jeff Jarvis

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In a book that’s one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse pioneers Google –– the fastest growing company in history –– to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by.

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The Soul of the Corporation

How to Manage the Identity of Your Company

by John Kimberly, Hamid Bouchikhi

Drawing on real-life stories from the world’s most prominent companies, The Soul of the Corporation shows how identity can be an extraordinarily valuable asset — and how, if not managed properly, it can become a huge liability. Discover how your firm’s identity is related to — and different from — its organizational culture, brand positioning and reputation. Learn how to manage the unconscious shared beliefs that give your organization coherence.

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Blueprint to a Billion

The 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth

by David G. Thomson

Microsoft, Google and eBay did it. And in David G. Thomson’s Blueprint to a Billion, he will tell you how to turn billion-dollar ideas into billion-dollar businesses. Based on three years of in-depth research, Thomson provides an assessment of the success pattern common across a distinct group of 387 “Blueprint Companies” that went from an initial public offering since 1980 and achieved $1 billion in revenue. Rather than focusing on one unique company, Thomson focuses on a quantifiable,

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The Well-Timed Strategy

Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage

by Peter Navarro

It’s not enough to understand the business cycle and the industry cycle. In The Well-Timed Strategy, Peter Navarro discusses today’s unprecedented level of macroeconomic turbulence – from oil price hikes to drought and disease. Whether an executive, a strategist or an investor, Navarro provides the tools to align every facet of business strategy, tactics and operations to reflect changing business conditions. Keeping in mind finance, supply chains, production, marketing, HR and more, th

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Beyond the Core

Expand Your Market without Abandoning Your Roots

by Chris Zook

In his previous book, Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how the most enduring growth performers succeeded by focusing and building around one or two well-defined, dominant cores — and how otherwise well-positioned firms sabotaged their growth by prematurely abandoning their core in pursuit of the next “hot” topic. Now, based on extensive research on the growth patterns of thousands of companies worldwide — including CEO interviews with the top 25 growth performer

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True To Our Roots

Fermenting a Business Revolution

by Paul Dolan

In True to Our Roots, winemaker and company president Paul Dolan describes the guiding principles he uses at Fetzer that can help managers in any industry build and grow stronger, more sustainable companies. With an intense commitment to define new business principles for the future, Dolan and Fetzer have taken steps toward proliferating sustainable commerce while leading a management revolution in one of the most competitive industries in the world. True to Our Roots offers a

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