Book Summaries

The Responsible Entrepreneur offers four archetypes for entrepreneurs to use to learn how to grow their businesses into powerful platforms. Responsible entrepreneurs seek to transform industries and even society itself. Sanford presents a blueprint for the kind of leadership that is required.

How the World Sees You gives a step-by-step method to help you know what makes you valuable to others, which will help you to be more authentic, confident and able to be at your best to create better relationships, grow your business and become even more valuable to those who matter most.

Overfished Ocean Strategy offers five principles to help businesses to find new opportunities in what were once considered useless by-products, discover resource-conserving efficiencies up and down their value chain, transfer their expertise from physical products to services, and develop ways to rapidly try out and refine these new business models.

In The Behavior Breakthrough, organizational behavior expert Steve Jacobs and his colleagues explain the quiet revolution that is underway in pioneering and successful organizations.

Brian Klapper reveals the "art and science" of lasting transformation based on a proven, repeatable model. Learn how to unlock the potential of your organization’s collective intelligence to create buy-in from top to bottom. The Q-Loop extracts the deep knowledge that resides with front line employees, breaks down their inherent resistance to change, and converts them into passionate advocates who are fully invested in leading the organization to achieve transformational results.

William C. Taylor, co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company, offers radical ideas and practical advice to help leaders fix what’s wrong in their organizations, launch new initiatives that have the best chance to succeed, and rethink the logic of leadership itself. Practically Radical is a handbook for successful transformation and a valuable tutorial that can help leaders effectively implement their change agendas.

Nicole Lipkin uses psychological and neuroscience research to show leaders how to recognize and resolve eight of today’s most troubling management issues: miscommunication, stress, change, unhealthy competition, damaging group dynamics, loss of motivation and engagement, elusive success, and typical leadership missteps that cause leaders to go temporarily from good to bad. What Keeps Leaders Up at Night helps leaders gain greater awareness of what causes these recurring problems and...

Talent Economics offers an outside-in view on talent that brings workforce analysis, management practice and strategy together using economic inquiry. Award-winning talent strategist and leadership coach Gyan Nagpal presents business leaders an opportunity to step back and understand the ebb and flow of global talent before translating this new understanding into a winning strategy.

In ENGAGED! Gregg Lederman teaches how to design and implement a sustainable culture and customer experience. Practical and useful tools, including the ENGAGED Index, demonstrate how to communicate expectations for living the brand, measure to establish visibility and accountability, and ultimately create customers for life. Lederman’s message of “Managing the Experience” has already transformed the culture in many leading companies.