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Book Summary – How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Making changes can be hard. In this book, Katy Milkman explains the key obstacles to change, and identifies the specific strategies you can use to…

ReadingraphicsFebruary 28, 2022

Management Challenges for the 21st Century - Book summary

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Book Summary – Management Challenges for the 21st Century

This book was published in 1999, just before the turn of the millennium. Peter F. Drucker highlighted major social, economic and political changes for the…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 24, 2021

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Book Summary – Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

To solve problems, leaders must be able to influence behavioral change. In Influencer, the authors (Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan and Al…

ReadingraphicsMay 30, 2020

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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

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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

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

Book Summaries Leadership and Teamwork Personal Development Professional Development

Book Summary – Who Moved My Cheese: An A-Mazing Way To Deal With Change in your Work and in your Life

Change is inevitable. Yet, most people are uncomfortable with it. Through a simple story, Spencer Johnson illustrates how people react to change, and how we…

ReadingraphicsMay 16, 2017

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Book Summary – Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

How does creativity really work, and how can we build and maintain a creative, solutions-oriented organization? In this book, Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation…

ReadingraphicsApril 23, 2017

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Book Summary – Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing And Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Through a simple fable about a penguin colony, with life-like characters that we can identify with. This book by John Kotter presents important lessons for…

ReadingraphicsApril 27, 2016

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Book Summary – Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard

Making lasting change in our companies, communities and our own can be hard, because of inherent conflict in our minds. In this book, the Heath…

ReadingraphicsFebruary 5, 2016

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Book Summary – The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Why do some ideas, social behaviors or products start epidemics while others don’t? How do you curb a rampant epidemic, or start a positive campaign…

ReadingraphicsJune 7, 2015

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