Book Summaries

In Master Your Motivation, Susan Fowler says that motivation is energy, and what matters is the quality, not the quantity.

Unplugged provides a fresh look at engagement as a choice that employees make based on how they perceive the change they are faced with and how much discretionary energy they will give to the endeavor.

In The Solutions Oriented Leader: Your Comprehensive Guide to Achieve World-Class Results, Goodman shares the wisdom he gained on that journey and gives readers the ‘secret sauce’ to transform teams into rockstars.

In Rituals for Work, Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Hagan provide a blueprint for building a culture of engagement, innovation, and shared purpose for organizations of all sizes, across industries.

In Otherwise Engaged, author John Guaspari teaches about why businesses’ employee engagement activities and other attempts at fixing “the people stuff” aren’t working.

It’s Never Just Business: It’s About People is intended to help you develop and refine your leadership skills, whether you’re trying to build a company, keep up with the innovation required to be competitive today, or just change the world.

Absolute Value answers the question of what influences customers in this new age and describes how a company should design its communication strategy, market research program, and segmentation strategy in order to adopt a new way of thinking about marketing in this new environment.

Leadership 2030 presents six converging megatrends that will reshape businesses by the year 2030 including the forces of globalization 2.0, environmental crisis, individualization and value pluralism, the digital era, demographic change, and technological convergence.

The Resiliency Advantage explains how and why some people are more resilient than others and how resiliency can be learned and strengthened. Dr. Siebert details a five-level program for becoming more resilient that is a valuable resource for learning how to meet the challenges of work and life head on.