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Learn why 81 percent of executives view approaches such as knowledge management and collaboration as the main drivers for increased productivity, enhanced performance and rapid innovation.
In today’s knowledge age, the ability to turn information into insight in response to market movements is core to sustainability. This report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit examines the challenges and rewards of organizational agility, particularly in tough economic times. More than 300 executives around the world were surveyed on the benefits, challenges and risks associated with creating a more agile organization.
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In Crisis Leadership Now, author Laurence Barton applies his corporate insider’s insight to numerous case studies, demonstrating how catastrophes happen to real companies and real people every day.
These studies form a framework for building crisis management thinking into your company’s strategic toolbox. Anticipating all forms of trouble, advising senior management and boards of directors about potential events, and devising a business recovery plan will allow your organization to rebound should tragedy strike.
You’ll also receive Executive Book Alert, which keeps business executives up-to-date on the latest in business thinking. Their editors scour the book lists and catalogs, talk with business book publishers, and network with top business authors, to find the next best business books to summarize. As they do this, they will share the results of their research in this e-Newsletter.
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Whether you’re discussing former United States presidents, Fortune 500 CEOs, military generals or college hockey coaches, leaders are remembered for their best and worst judgment calls.
According to business gurus Tichy and Bennis, it is a leader’s judgment that can determine the fate of the entire organization.
You’ll also receive Executive Book Alert, which keeps business executives up-to-date on the latest in business thinking. Their editors scour the book lists and catalogs, talk with business book publishers, and network with top business authors, to find the next best business books to summarize. As they do this, they will share the results of their research in this e-Newsletter.
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John Maxwell shares a lifetime of leadership truths, which can guide anyone who currently leads or aspires to lead.
Good leadership always makes a difference. It can turn organizations around and positively impact the lives of thousands. Learning more about leadership will make a difference in you, and you will make a difference in the lives of others. John Maxwell shares a lifetime of leadership truths, which can guide anyone who currently leads or aspires to lead.
You’ll also receive Executive Book Alert, which keeps business executives up-to-date on the latest in business thinking. Their editors scour the book lists and catalogs, talk with business book publishers, and network with top business authors, to find the next best business books to summarize. As they do this, they will share the results of their research in this e-Newsletter.
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Ram Charan takes aim at the current crisis in leadership: the shortage of leaders prepared to face the complex business challenges of today.
In Leaders at All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis, Ram Charan — prolific author and world-renowned advisor to business leaders — takes aim at the current crisis in leadership: the shortage of leaders prepared to face the complex business challenges of today. Charan offers a solution that outlines a new model for succession and leadership development.
You’ll also receive Executive Book Alert, which keeps business executives up-to-date on the latest in business thinking. Their editors scour the book lists and catalogs, talk with business book publishers, and network with top business authors, to find the next best business books to summarize. As they do this, they will share the results of their research in this e-Newsletter.
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Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results. Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This 9 Value Offer Expires 5/1/2009.
- Best-in-Class companies achieved a 44% average year-over-year improvement in customer responsiveness
- Best-in-Class companies realized a 42% average year-over-year increase in employee productivity
- Best-in-Class companies saw a 30% average year-over-year increase in business process efficiency
This report demonstrates that Best-in-Class companies have successfully merged Business Intelligence (BI) functionality with collaborative techniques in order to produce substantial improvements in customer responsiveness, employee productivity, and business process efficiency. By leveraging a culture of information and other key organizational capabilities, top performing companies were able to expand the use of analytical capability to more areas of the business and lay a strong foundation for collaborative activity.
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Know in 10 minutes what it takes others hours, and keep up with the latest trends in your industry.
In this summary you will learn:
- What the “Halo Effect” is
- Why it is so powerful
- Why managers believe nine delusions about building high-performance companies
- What characteristics make a company an actual top performer
Why you should read The Halo Effect
This serious book will change the way many people think about the pursuit of managerial excellence and, indirectly, about the criteria they use for managing (and coincidentally) investing. Phil Rosenzweig provocatively challenges prevailing concepts about the traits that drive corporate performance. He asks revealing questions about previous research assumptions that labeled companies “excellent.” It seems that earlier accolades about “the best” companies - including the claims in some blockbuster books - were based on faulty research techniques that led authors to mistakenly attribute achievements to companies that did not accomplish them or could not sustain them. Rosenzweig distills his compelling ideas clearly, and buttresses his case with specific examples and original research, adding to the book’s power. As a result, getAbstract would compare this very readable, focused book to fine brandy: palatable, enjoyable, memorable, a little heavy - and imbued with the potential to change your mind. Highly recommended.
About the Author
Phil Rosenzweig, Ph.D., is a professor at IMD, the International Institute for Management Development, in Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and taught at the Harvard Business School.
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Know in 10 minutes what it takes others hours, and keep up with the latest trends in your industry.
In this summary you will learn:
- Who Warren Buffett is
- What his personal and business history is
- What his investment philosophy is
- How he became the world’s richest man
Why you should read The Snowball:
Warren Buffett is “everyman” as multibillionaire. Despite his vast wealth, he has always eschewed ostentation. He pays himself about 0,000 annually, which in today’s U.S. economy places him in the upper-middle-class. He lives in the same simple Omaha, Nebraska, house that he bought in 1958 for ,500. He prefers an old gray suit to expensive London tailoring. In Buffett’s early days, when he was only a multimillionaire and not a multibillionaire, he walked around with holes in the soles of his shoes. To Buffett, wardrobe doesn’t matter; what matters is making money. He is better at this pursuit than anyone else in the world. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked him as the globe’s richest man, with a net worth of .3 billion. Author Alice Schroeder does a masterful job of chronicling Buffett’s improbable, inspiring life. As a former superstar research analyst, Schroeder uses her expert knowledge of finance and commerce to detail Buffett’s investment philosophy and business activities. getAbstract praises Schroeder’s remarkable skills as a researcher and writer. Her book is packed with fascinating details and trenchant observations about the “Oracle of Omaha.” One of the best business biographies available, this book shows how the world’s greatest investor amassed the world’s greatest fortune, while staying true to his essential self.
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Know in 10 minutes what it takes others hours, and keep up with the latest trends in your industry.
In this summary you will learn:
- Why highly significant yet unpredictable events, called “black swans,” are underappreciated
- Why people continually see misleading patterns in data
- How to embrace randomness and come to terms with black swans
Why you should read The Black Swan. According to critic Harold Bloom, Hamlet’s predicament is not “that he thinks too much” but rather that “he thinks too well,” being ultimately “unable to rest in illusions of any kind.” The same could be said for philosopher, essayist and trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who finds something rotten in misguided yet supremely confident investment gurus, traders, hedge fund managers, Wall Street bankers, M.B.A.s, CEOs, Nobel-winning economists and others who claim that they can predict the future and explain the past. Like everyone else, says Taleb, these so-called “experts” fail to appreciate “black swans”: highly consequential but unlikely events that render predictions and standard explanations worse than worthless. Taleb’s style is personal and literary, but his heterodox insights are rigorous (if sometimes jolted by authorial filigree). This combination makes for a thrilling, disturbing, contentious and unforgettable book on chance and randomness. While Taleb offers strong medicine some readers may find too bitter at times, getAbstract prescribes it to anyone who wants a powerful inoculation against gullibility.
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