Energize Your Company’s Culture by Choosing What Really Matters The fate of any change effort depends on whether and how leaders engage their culture. Culture is implicit rather than explicit, emotional rather than rational –
Continue ReadingBook Summary
Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results
There’s a learning curve to running any successful business. But once you begin to rely on past achievements or get stuck in outdated thinking and practices that no longer work, you need to take a
Continue Reading
Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to Work
Imagine a company where everyone loves to work, where employees feel not just “satisfied” but truly cared for, respected and energized. Think of the impact this would have on recruitment, retention, customer satisfaction, innovation and
Continue Reading
Understanding the 3 Types of Feedback Triggers
Not all feedback is difficult. Most of us do just fine with positive feedback. Then there’s the tougher stuff –– the feedback that leaves us confused or enraged, flustered or flattened. This kind of feedback
Continue Reading
5 Ways to Make Meetings More Energizing (and Effective) for Your Organization
If you’re like most business leaders, you likely have way more meetings than you’d like (or actually need) to be in. At the same time, meetings are opportunities for us to come together, align our
Continue Reading
The 30 Best Business Books of 2018
As you know, every year we scour through thousands of business books and select the titles that we believe have the ideas and concepts that are instrumental to the professional development of our subscribers. For
Continue Reading
How Thanksgiving Ideals Infiltrate the Best Business Books
The Thanksgiving holiday came and went faster than most of us were prepared for. As we sit back, digest all that food we ate, and reflect on the comings and goings of the holiday, everyone
Continue Reading
Leadership Excellence with John Wooden
An excerpt from our Executive Book Summary of The 5 Levels of Leadership by John C. Maxwell: Portrait of a Level 5 Leader: Coach John Wooden My admiration and respect for John Wooden began when
Continue Reading
The Top 5 Startup Books that Entrepreneurs Need to Read
(1) THE ART OF THE START In The Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki brings two decades of experience as one of business’s most original and irreverent strategists to offer the essential guide for anyone
Continue Reading
6 Rules for Connecting with Influentials
In their book The Influentials, Ed Keller and Jon Berry identify how the most influential Americans get ideas and, more importantly, how they spread them. Influentials, who aren’t necessarily the richest or the best educated,
Continue Reading
How Much Should You Say in a Meeting?
David F. D’Alessandro alerts us in his book Career Warfare that meetings are the stage on which you build or destroy your brand. Staff meetings: Weekly staff meetings can be particularly dangerous. In effect, you
Continue Reading