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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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Ideas Are Free

How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations

by Alan Robinson, Dean Schroeder

Simple ideas can save time, effort and money. They can also lead to entirely new ways of doing business. Alan G. Robinson, an award-winning author, educator and consultant, and Dean M. Schroeder, the founder of two companies and a business professor, have written Ideas Are Free to show managers how to access the many ideas of their employees and turn them into competitive advantage. Through extensive research and work with more than 300 companies in dozens of industries, the authors exp

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The Science of High-Performance Supplier Management

A Systematic Approach to Improving Procurement Costs, Quality, and Relationships

by Randy A. Moore

Moore presents an in-depth, nuts-and-bolts guide to procurement that will prove invaluable to purchasing managers as well as company executives. Based on practices developed in the procurement of high technology systems, Moore’s framework, called STeP (Systematic Technology for Procurement), is a repeatable, scientific process for purchasing.

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Now or Never

How Companies Must Change Today to Win the Battle for Internet Consumers

by Mary Modahl

Modahl, vice-president of research at Forrester Research Inc., introduces a new model of consumer behavior, called Technographics, to help companies understand how consumers think about and use the Internet. The Technographics information helps guide companies as they plot successful Internet strategies.

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Trusted Partners

How Companies Build Mutual Trust and Win Together

by Jordan D. Lewis Ph.D.

Internationally recognized strategic alliances expert Lewis, author of The Connected Corporation, shows how to build, manage, measure, improve and repair trust, the key ingredient to successful partnerships.

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The Soul of the Firm

by C William Pollard

Pollard, head of the ServiceMaster Company, offers a glimpse at how ServiceMaster has grown into a $3 billion firm. The secret: treating employees at all levels with the respect they deserve. The best book yet on the "socially responsible" company.

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Transformational Learning

Renewing Your Company Through Knowledge and Skills

by Daniel Tobin

You've heard about the "learning organization." Here's the most useful look at the subject yet. Tobin offers practical ways for you to keep skills polished and ideas fresh in your organization.

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