Leadership Books - Book Summary Category

The Great Game of Business - Book summary

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Book Summary – The Great Game Of Business : The Only Sensible Way To Run A Company

Businesses must make money to survive and succeed. Yet, most employees don’t understand business financials nor how their salaried jobs are tied to the company’s…

ReadingraphicsJuly 26, 2019

Book Summaries Leadership and Teamwork Professional Development

Book Summary – Turn the Ship Around! : A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

Turn the Ship Around! tells the story of how Captain David Marquet successfully transformed the USS Santa Fe in less than a year, from the…

ReadingraphicsJune 30, 2019

Book Summaries Business Communication Leadership and Teamwork Learning & Development Professional Development

Book Summary – The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

The first 90 days of any career transition—be it a promotion, a new job or a lateral transfer—are critical and can determine if you succeed…

ReadingraphicsApril 30, 2019

Book Summaries Business Management Leadership and Teamwork Sociology & Economics

Book Summary – The Culture Code: The Secrets Of Highly Successful Groups

Why do some groups perform at a level beyond the sum of their individual parts while others perform below that? The answer lies in their…

ReadingraphicsMarch 22, 2019

Book Summaries Business Communication Business Management Decision-Making & Problem-Solving Leadership and Teamwork Operations and Project Management

Book Summary – Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

The Entrepreneurial Operating System®, or EOS®, is a set of comprehensive processes and tools to help leadership teams overcome key business challenges, gain control of…

ReadingraphicsFebruary 27, 2019

The 4 Disciplines of Execution - Book summary

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Book Summary – The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

Often, leaders know the strategic plan, but struggle to execute it. Indeed, even if we know broadly what we must do, we may not know…

ReadingraphicsJanuary 17, 2019

Book Summaries Business Management Leadership and Teamwork

Book Summary – The Ideal Team Player (Patrick Lencioni)

Great teams are essential for success in any organization. To have great teams, you need great team players. In this book, Patrick Lencioni explains how…

ReadingraphicsDecember 14, 2018

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Book Summary – Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Our world today is full of rapid, unpredictable changes and complex inter-dependencies. Traditional organizational models—which are built on efficiency and optimizing predictable systems—are no longer…

ReadingraphicsNovember 23, 2018

Reinventing Organizations - Book summary

Book Summaries Leadership and Teamwork Sociology & Economics

Book Summary – Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

As humanity evolves, our old/existing models of organization may be inadequate for our new needs, aspirations and challenges. In this book, Frederic Laloux introduces the…

ReadingraphicsOctober 14, 2018

Book Summaries Business Management Leadership and Teamwork

Book Summary – Sun Tzu The Art of War for Managers: 50 Strategic Rules Updated for Today’s Business

Sun Tzu’s famous book, The Art of War, was written in about 500 B.C. and its timeless principles have been used widely in business and…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 21, 2018

Book Summaries Business Development Business Management Decision-Making & Problem-Solving Leadership and Teamwork Professional Development

Book Summary – Playing To Win: How Strategy Really Works

Any organization without a sound strategy is bound to fail. Yet, most leaders don’t truly understand strategy nor how to apply it. This book by…

ReadingraphicsAugust 31, 2018

Book Summaries Business Communication Leadership and Teamwork Personal Development Professional Development

Book Summary – Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Great bosses retain talent and deliver superior results, while bad bosses do the opposite. This book explains how you can become a kickass boss to…

ReadingraphicsAugust 17, 2018

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Book Summary – Great By Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, And Luck-Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Uncertainty is unavoidable in business. Every company has to face external forces that it cannot predict nor control. The question is, why do some companies…

ReadingraphicsJuly 15, 2018

Book Summaries Leadership and Teamwork Personal Development Sociology & Economics

Book Summary – The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene) + Visual Summary

Whether people admit it or not, power shapes nearly every workplace, relationship, negotiation, and social interaction. Robert Greene condenses strategies that people have used for…

ReadingraphicsJune 29, 2018

The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster - Book summary

Book Summaries Business Management Decision-Making & Problem-Solving Entrepreneurship and Start-Ups Leadership and Teamwork Personal Development

Book Summary – The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why now is the time to #JointheRide

Most people have no idea how to start a business nor what to expect. "The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster" by Darren Hardy is a guidebook that…

ReadingraphicsJune 22, 2018

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The top 3 success tips guaranteed to deliver results

One of our readers asked us a great question recently: Out of all the key to success tips available, if you had to pick the…

ReadingraphicsMay 27, 2018

Book Summaries Leadership and Teamwork Professional Development

Book Summary – Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

U.S. Navy SEALs are probably one of the highest-performing military teams in the world. In Extreme Ownership, retired SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin…

ReadingraphicsApril 25, 2018

Business Management Leadership and Teamwork Tips and Insights

How to Develop People-Your Greatest Assets

Most companies claim that people are their biggest assets, but their practices say otherwise. Do you believe in employee development goals and having a creative…

ReadingraphicsApril 14, 2018

Book Summaries Business Communication Business Management Leadership and Teamwork

Book Summary – The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

Organizational health refers to how well an institution’s components (e.g. strategy, culture, management, operations) fit together so it can function consistently as a whole. In…

ReadingraphicsMarch 15, 2018

Decision-Making & Problem-Solving Leadership and Teamwork Tips and Insights

How to Find Solutions to Your Toughest Problems

When you're stuck with a tough problem (especially a big one), do you find yourself trying to tackle the whole challenge and end up feeling…

ReadingraphicsMarch 8, 2018

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