Book Summaries

Jeremy Eden and Terri Long have distilled 77 of their most effective techniques for generating real performance improvements drawn from their success working with major companies. If you think you don’t have the resources to be faster, better and more profitable, think again. Low-Hanging Fruit can help identify and solve hidden problems.

Strategy expert Jeffrey Sampler introduces four "strategic shock absorbers" that enable leaders to build resilient organizations that can withstand even the most unexpected global turbulence. With this framework, leaders will be shown how to be prepared and proactive, rather than reactive, even when the future is uncertain.

People reach highly influential positions because they deeply understand the power of perception and know how to leverage it in their favor. Harrison Monarth believes anyone with the will to succeed can do it, and he provides the techniques needed to take a career to its highest level.

Tim Irwin chronicles the collapse of six high-profile CEOs and identifies the factors that drove their downfalls. In each case, Irwin observes a failure of authenticity, humility, self-management and courage. Derailed teaches you how to avoid derailment by applying certain principles about leadership and life to stay on track.

In Divide or Conquer, Diana McLain Smith distills almost thirty years of experience studying and advising leaders to offer a new way to think about teams –– not as a bunch of individuals, but as the sum of their relationships.

Although Peter Drucker died in 2005, his timeless teachings are studied and practiced by forward-thinking managers worldwide. His lessons and wisdom on the topic of leadership — the central element of management — are in constant demand, yet he wrote little under that actual subject heading. In Drucker on Leadership, management expert and author William A. Cohen, Ph.D., explores Drucker's lost leadership lessons — what they are, why they are important and how to apply

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AG Lafley, chairman and CEO of P&G, and well-known author Ram Charan team up to show why innovation must be made central to the goals, strategy, structure, systems, culture, leadership, and motivating purpose and values of your business to create sustained and ever-improving organic revenue growth and profits. Based on experience and research, the authors offer a new management process for making innovation central to every driver of your business.

Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross explains why reputation matters to a company’s valuation and well-being and identifies the roles corporate leaders must play in reputation recovery and sustainability. What triggers reputation loss? What are the signals? Why are so many companies struggling with tarnished reputations? What can be done? The most important phases in recovering reputation are outlined in a 12-step process.

Good leadership always makes a difference. It can turn organizations around and positively impact the lives of thousands. Learning more about leadership will make a difference in you, and you will make a difference in the lives of others. John Maxwell shares a lifetime of leadership truths, which can guide anyone who currently leads or aspires to lead.