Business Book Summaries

Rich Karlgaard and Michael S. Malone have spent years researching and analyzing successful teams and powerful organizations in order to develop a new science for managing them.

In Becoming the Boss, Lindsey Pollak provides insight on leadership styles, communicating, and resolving people issues for those who aspire to become business leaders, especially individuals in the millennial generation.

Professionals at all levels are finding it difficult to make efficient use of their time. No matter how many hours they dedicate to specific tasks, employees from the top down are constantly feeling like they are not making progress on their work.

Businesses fail every day, not for lack of capability or opportunity, but for lack of effective strategic thinking.

In The Big Switch, Nicholas Carr draws a parallel between the development of electricity as a utility at the turn of the 20th century and the development of the Internet at the turn of the 21st century.

Out of the millions of companies that are launched every year, only a few end up with truly great names. In Hello, My Name Is Awesome, Alexandra Watkins demonstrates that every entrepreneur has the ability to create dynamic and memorable brand names.

In an always-on, constantly connected digital environment, the appreciation of solitude is becoming a dying art. Yet some of life's richest rewards result from periods of solitude -- or what author Michael Harris refers to as absence.

In Focus, Daniel Goleman discusses the many attributes of attention and how important it is in a person's daily life.

In today’s fast-paced and high-stress business world, people try to use multitasking to claw away at their mountains of tasks and responsibilities.

In Breaking Through “Bitch,” Carol Vallone Mitchell examines why and how women must lead differently than men in today’s business climate by “feminizing” leadership competencies.