Business Book Summaries

In Million Dollar Maverick, Alan Weiss reveals that the most successful entrepreneurs do not take direction from others; they do what they love and they find a way to sell it.

Audiences forget up to 90 percent of what they are told. How can professionals create content that inspires action when employees and customers only remember one-tenth of their messages? In Impossible to Ignore, cognitive scientist Carmen Simon draws on..

Leaders approach Christine Comaford wanting three things from their teams: increased performance, increased innovation, and increased emotional engagement in the face of change or growth.

Becoming a frontline leader for the first time can an extremely stressful experience.

Nimble competitors dominate today's economy, and companies cannot afford to stagnate. However, only one percent of products are successful enough to pay back development costs, and even fewer make a noticeable impact to a company's growth.

As leadership consultant and CEO Timothy R. Clark observes in Leading with Character & Competence, real leadership does not rely on charisma, seniority, or power alone. Instead, true leadership rests on one principle: influence.

There are few challenges harder than those faced by U.S. Marines in combat. Given a mission, Marines plan carefully and then succeed through a disciplined execution of that plan.

In Hiring & Firing, noted business expert Brian Tracy discusses the fine points of selecting the right employees and firing those who are not a good fit.

It takes a lot of time and hard work to turn a new idea into a useful social program.

Every person has a natural inclination to view his or her goals as either opportunities for advancement or opportunities to minimize risks. Those with the first point of view are promotion-focused.