7 Books that Will Help Your Business Grow

by Henry Glickel | Category: Book Review

Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2020 at 06:47:47 PM

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Looking to help your business grow? Spend some time nose deep with these seven books: Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being RemarkableIn his new bestseller, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a manifesto for anyone who wants to help create products and services that are worth marketing in the first place.In Search of ExcellenceBased on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management -- action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices -- that made these organizations successful.The Smartest Guys in the RoomThe Enron scandal brought down one of the most admired companies of the 1990s. Countless books and articles were written about it, but only The Smartest Guys in the Room holds up a decade later as the definitive narrative. For this tenth anniversary...

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5 Books You Don't Want to Miss this Week

by Henry Glickel | Category: Book Review

Posted on Wednesday July 2, 2020 at 05:15:11 PM

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Reengineering the CorporationJames Champy and Michael HammerThe most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall StreetMichael LewisA born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition as badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of Bonfire of the Vanities. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis' job was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside America who saved to those inside America who consumed.The Power of HabitCharles DuhiggIn The Power of Habit, award-winning...

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5 Books Not to Miss

by Henry Glickel | Category: Book Review

Posted on Wednesday June 11, 2020 at 02:39:45 PM

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Management Teams: Why They Succeed or FailR. Meredith MelbinManagement Teams: Why they succeed or fail is an account of the experimental study of management teams at Henley Management College from which Belbin's unique Team Role theory developed. Now in its third edition, the original theory has been fully updated and rewritten in parts by the author, with chapter summaries and updated illustrations.Leaders: The Strategies for Taking ChargeWarren Bennis and Burt NanusIn this age of "process", with downsizing and restructuring affecting many workplaces, companies have fallen trap to lack of communication and distrust, and vision and leadership are needed more than ever before. The wisdom and insight in Leaders address this need. It is an indispensable source of guidance all readers will appreciate, whether they're running a small department or in charge of an entire corporation.LeadershipJames MacGregor BurnsJames MacGregor Burns, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award,...

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