Book Summaries

In Ally Up, you’ll learn how to turn diversity, equity, and inclusion into more than just buzzwords.

In What They Didn’t Tell Me, the author’s goal is to help you become a resilient leader and surround yourself with teams you can trust to weather storms and achieve great things together.

Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini show readers how to “launch an unstoppable movement to equip and empower everyone in their organization to be their best and to do their best.”

The Live Enterprise can help you create groundbreaking structures, response capacities, value chains, and more. It can help transform your organization into a constantly learning, ever-evolving industry leader.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution, Revised and Updated, offers a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing your most important strategic priorities in the midst of the whirlwind.

Leaders are not as committed as they think they are or need to be. The antidote to these problems? Ruthless consistency.

In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.

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Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous...

Primal Teams shows how anyone can control potentially damaging emotions, while triggering the kind of passion and energy that supercharge performance.