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| Banishing Burnout: Six Strategies for Improving Your Relationship with Work (Summary) | by Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach. With this summary, you’ll learn a proven action plan that will help you, and everyone who works for you, overcome the stress and pressures of the workplace. This will allow you to protect your health, increase your happiness, improve your performance, and achieve your career goals. |
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| Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It (Summary) | by David F. D’Alessandro with Michele Owens. Success in corporations today isn’t based on positive reviews, smooth manners, and sharp suits. Much more important to your success is what people think of you – your personal brand. When other people make decisions about your career, they are made based on the assumptions you’ve allowed them to make about who you are. This summary spells out the 10 rules that will help you to turn your personal brand into a powerful tool. |
| Conquering Complexity in Your Business: How Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Other Top Companies Are Breaking Through the Ceiling on Profits and Growth (Summary) | by Michael George and Stephen Wilson. Every business has too much complexity in something. In order to conquer complexity, this summary explains how you need to identify opportunities, quantify the size of those opportunities, and decide which to pursue. Taking the time to understand complexity and to develop strategies for conquering it will help you to improve your ability to grow profit, revenue, and shareholder value. |
| Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior (Summary) | by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey. In this summary, you’ll learn how to permanently resolve failed promises and missed deadlines; transform broken rules and bad behaviors into accountability; and strengthen relationships while solving problems. |
| FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change (Summary) | by Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown. In this summary, you’ll learn how to predict what’s likely to lie ahead by using several principles and techniques. These include overcoming the mental traps that keep executives from understanding and managing change; unlocking the hidden patterns of change; finding metaphors that will allow your mind to function creatively and powerfully; harnessing evolution to make better business decisions; capitalizing on the power of the lowest common denominator; and learning how to use demographics to understand future customer needs. |
| Kiss Theory Good Bye: Five Proven Ways to Get Extraordinary Results in Any Company (Summary) | by Bob Prosen. Of all the crippling habits that keep companies from reaching their potential, the worst habit is focusing on planning instead of action. What separates the winners from those who are struggling, or worse, filing for bankruptcy? The answer is the ability to execute a plan. |
| Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators (Summary) | by Patrick Lencioni. This book offers practical guidance for overcoming the five barriers to better team performance: absence of trust; fear of conflict; lack of commitment; avoidance of accountability; and inattention to results. |
| The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (Summary) | by John C. Maxwell. In the summary, Maxwell examines the 21 Laws and explains how you can apply each one to your life so you can become a more effective leader. He’s combined the insights learned from his decades of successful leadership with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and war. |
| The 7 Triggers to Yes: The New Science Behind Influencing People’s Decisions (Summary) | by Russell Granger. Using the latest research in brain science, Granger explains how emotions not only guide our decisions and actions, but also are essential to the process of decision making. In order to persuade people and get results, we need a better understanding of the emotional parts of the brain and how they work. Through this understanding, Granger shows how to create triggers in the brain to elicit a “yes” response from clients, co-workers, employees, and entire organizations. |
| The Emotionally Intelligent Team: Understanding and Developing the Behaviours of Success (Summary) | by Marcia Hughes and James Bradford Terrell. This summary offers practical information to guide businesses that want to draw on the power of the emotional competencies of their teams. You will learn how individuals, team members, and leaders can take the steps to become “emotionally intelligent team members,” and how to put in place the practices and exercises that will help any team yield tangible results like improved productivity, greater innovation, and better efficiency. |
| The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels (Summary) | by Michael Watkins. If you’re in a new leadership position in business, you’re allowed 90 days to prove yourself. The actions you take during your first three months in a new job will largely determine whether you will succeed or fail in the long term. |
| The Leader’s Edge: Six Creative Competencies for Navigating Complex Challenges (Summary) | by Charles J. Palus and David M. Horth. Today’s business challenges demand a new set of leadership skills. This book reveals the six competencies that separate true leaders from merely effective managers. |
| The Leadership Challenge (Summary) | by James Kouzes and Barry Posner. Good leadership is a universal process. Although each leader is a unique individual, there are shared patterns to the practice of leadership from which all of us can benefit. In this summary, you will learn about the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, what people who are being led want from a leader, and the 10 commitments of leadership — essential behaviors that leaders employ to achieve extraordinary results. |
| Tough Management: The 7 Winning Ways to Make Tough Decisions Easier, Deliver the Numbers, and Grow… (Summary) | by Chuck Martin. This book sets out seven solid rules that will help you to reach decisions more easily, make the numbers consistently, and deliver the results your company needs for sustained growth. |
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