Business Book Summaries

Every office is political, and every worker must engage in office politics. Instead of getting involved in gossip and backstabbing, workers can choose to be constructive.

In The Courage to Take Command, Colonel Jill Morgenthaler applies universal principles of leadership to daily situations that leaders encounter at work.

Leaders in any arena are concerned with the practices and skills that will help their teams succeed. Universally, one of the tools that ensures a team’s success is an effective meeting.

Customers are in control of the marketing messages they receive—both the content and the delivery. They expect to have the same experiences whether they are online or in a store.

Major national calamities, economic crises, loss of lives, and bad business decisions often have one thing in common: the inability or predisposed disinclination to notice important key factors that put lives, businesses, or institutions in danger.

In Your Self-Sabotage Survival Guide, Karen Berg states that people who want to be successful in business and in life have to move from self-sabotage to reinvention.

In The Naked Corporation, authors Don Tapscott and David Ticoll provide a unique look at how transparency has become the new global business norm. This move toward a more open approach is not entirely unselfish in nature.

The second edition of The Six Sigma Way, by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, and Roland R. Cavanagh, is a detailed, step-by-step guide on how to design or redesign an organization’s processes from the ground up.

In a time when negative workplaces are far too common, a small but growing group of employers are going against the grain to actively create remarkable workplaces.

Many managers avoid delivering feedback to others because they find it to be awkward and difficult to do well.