Book Summaries

Robert Anderson and William Adams present a comprehensive roadmap for optimal leadership development - individual and collective - that can create competitive advantage. They explore five stages in the evolution of leadership along with organizational structures and cultures that develop at each of these stages as well as six key practices for effective leadership development.

Managing people effectively means using finely tuned interpersonal skills and astutely reading emotional cues to get the job done right and on time. The practical tools to use Emotional Intelligence (EQ) offered by Anthony Mersino will help you improve your ability to read between the emotional lines and transform your results from "good enough" to "beyond expectations." Improve your EQ and you’ll soon be getting the best work out of everyone including yourself.

"Are you a strategist?" That’s the first question Cynthia Montgomery asks the business owners and senior executives from all over the world who participate in her highly regarded executive education class.

In Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts to craft a picture of effective decision-making that runs counter to our brutally fast-paced world.

What Matters Now is Gary Hamel's impassioned plea to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about management, the meaning of work, and organizational life. He asks, "What are the fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead?" The answer is found in five paramount issues: values, innovation, adaptability, passion, and ideology.

Bestselling authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal give leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide. Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination, creativity, meaning and magic, and as warrior, mobilizing strength, courage and willingness to fight as necessary to fulfill their mission.