Book Summaries

Harvard Business Press, 288 pages

Crown Business, 256 pages

The Crossroad Publishing Company, 112 pages

Career Press, 224 pages

Six Disciplines Publishing, 196 pages

A "Responsibility Revolution" is shaking up corporate America. In this provocative and insightful book, bestselling author Tim Sanders reveals why companies must go beyond making a profit and start making a difference and offers concrete suggestions on how all of us can help our companies join the Responsibility Revolution.

While growth is a top priority for companies of all sizes, it can be extremely difficult to maintain — especially in today's competitive business environment. In order to achieve this goal, you need to think through the growth challenges your organization faces and follow a detailed approach to uncover, understand and capture potential growth opportunities.

Centered around three themes — leadership, accountability and organizational structure — this book explores what it means for managers to be held accountable at every level and argues that most leadership-related problems arise from the ineffectiveness of organizational structures that lack accountable jobs.

In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval in decades, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom-and-bust cycles and dominate global economic activity. The prevailing paradigm for financial markets — that markets tend toward equilibrium an