Book Summaries

According to leadership expert John Maxwell, you can learn to develop your influence from wherever you are in the organization by becoming a 360-degree leader. You can learn to lead up, lead across and lead down. He writes that only 360-degree leaders influence people at every level of the organization, and by helping others, they help themselves. In The 360 Degree Leader, Maxwell explains that becoming a 360-degree leader is within the reach of anyone who possesses average or better...

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.

Greg Githens, in How to Think Strategically, draws from his experience as an employee and as a consultant, for an array of organizations.

Customers no longer care where or from whom they buy, which puts buyers in control of the entire purchase progression. Business strategy expert Robert Bloom identifies four decisive customer moments as part of a customer-centric solution in order to think like a buyer, deliver the benefits buyers want and ultimately achieve profitable growth.