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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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WorkInspired

How to Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to Work

by Aron Ain

WorkInspired takes leaders and managers inside Kronos’s highly admired culture and shares the surprisingly simple rules they can follow to replicate that success.

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The Fearless Organization

Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

by Amy Edmondson

The Fearless Organization is a practical guide for creating cultures where knowledge and innovation flourish because people feel safe to contribute their ideas.

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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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Project Management for Non-Project Managers

by Jack Ferraro

Functional managers with even basic project management (PM) knowledge are the best people for keeping projects business-focused. This new book demystifies the jargon and processes, encouraging managers to jump into the PM arena and arming them with strategies for increasing the business value created by their company's projects.

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The Optimistic Workplace

Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone

by Shawn Murphy

CEO of Switch & Shift Shawn Murphy argues that our best work is the product of a positive environment. In The Optimistic Workplace, using simple strategies, he demonstrates how a people-centric focus ignites employee potential, increases innovation and catapults an organization to higher performance.

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Making Diversity Work

7 Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace

by Sondra Thiederman

Drawing from research and nearly 30 years of experience in the field, diversity expert Sondra Thiederman, Ph.D., provides executives and managers with step-by-step strategies for minimizing conscious and unconscious bias and maximizing the ability to manage diversity effectively.

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12: The Elements of Great Managing

by Rodd Wagner, James K. Harter

12: The Elements of Great Managing is the long-awaited sequel to the 1999 runaway bestseller First, Break All the Rules. Grounded in Gallup's 10 million employee and manager interviews spanning 114 countries, 12 follows great managers as they harness employee engagement to turn around a failing call center, save a struggling hotel, improve patient care in a hospital, maintain production through power outages, and successfully face a host of other challenges in settings around t

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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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Heads Up

Using Real-Time Business Information to Know First and Act Faster

by Kenneth G. McGee

According to Kenneth G. McGee, a research fellow at Gartner Inc., even the worst business catastrophes rarely happen without warning. In Heads Up, McGee describes how managers can break the pervasive pattern of surprises that are often followed by desperate responses. Instead of trying to predict the future, McGee explains, managers need to master predicting the present — understanding what is happening right now and how these current events and outcomes will impact future success. By r

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