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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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Make Their Day!

Employee Recognition That Works

by Cindy Ventrice

Make Their Day! zeroes in on what you — the manager, supervisor or team leader — can do to truly make your employees feel valued. It lays out proven recognition tactics that will provide a genuine, lasting boost for your business. Author Cindy Ventrice also demonstrates that integrating the intangible rewards people crave — praise, thanks, opportunity and respect — into the daily routine is far more effective than typical recognition awards, events, perks and pri

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Nudge

Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Every day, we make decisions. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge invites us to explore how we make those decisions and how we can be led to make better ones. Drawing on decades of cutting-edge behavioral science research, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein offer an insightful new perspective on how to improve the decisions we make in everything we do. They demonstrate how thoughtful, choice architecture can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions. Nudge
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The Next Global Stage

Boundless Opportunities in the Borderless Economy

by Kenichi Ohmae

A radically new world is taking shape from the ashes of yesterday’s nation-based economic world. To succeed, you must act on the global stage, leveraging radically new drivers of economic power and growth. In The Next Global Stage, legendary business strategist Kenichi Ohmae synthesizes today’s emerging trends into the first coherent view of tomorrow’s global economy — and its implications for politics, business and personal success.

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The Clickable Corporation

Successful Strategies for Capturing the Internet Advantage

by J Russell Gates, Douglas Armstrong, Jonathan Rosenoer

The authors identify and explain eight "value propositions" that companies can offer their customers through the web: information, choice, convenience, customization, savings, community, entertainment and trust. In-depth case studies show how companies are offering these value propositions.

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The Dance of Change

The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in a Learning Organization

by Charlotte Roberts, Peter Senge, Bryan Smith, Richard Ross, George Roth, Art Kleiner

In a follow-up to their seminal book, The Fifth Discipline, Senge and his team show companies how to overcome the ten challenges that undermine a company's attempt to change and become a learning organization. One example: the challenge of diffusion, or a company's inability to diffuse knowledge throughout the organization.

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Mean Business

by Albert Dunlap

Dunlap, head of Sunbeam Corporation, shows how he transformed Scott Paper from a money-losing, lackluster organization into a vibrant market leader. Tips abound – on strategy, cost cutting, out-sourcing, and getting ahead on the job. A great “here’s how I did it” summary.

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