By Stanley McChrystal

Team of Teams

Learn how General Stanley McChrystal transformed the US military from a top-down organization to a network-driven team of teams.

By Mark Hunter

High-Profit Prospecting

Prospecting is the most critical element of any sales funnel. Without prospects, even the world’s best closer will have nothing to work with. This summary busts the myths and shares terrific advice for powering up your prospecting.

By Antonio Garrido

Asking Questions The Sandler Way

A good salesperson is like a petulant child: Always asking questions. The trick however, is to ask the right questions at the right time. This summary gives us all the answers and will show you how to do this.

By Stanley McChrystal

Generations At Work 

Learn how General Stanley McChrystal transformed the US military from a top-down organization to a network-driven team of teams.

By Whitney Johnson

Build an A Team

Prospecting is the most critical element of any sales funnel. Without prospects, even the world’s best closer will have nothing to work with. This summary busts the myths and shares terrific advice for powering up your prospecting.

By Daniel Coyle

The Culture Code

Company culture can be one of the most misunderstood and under-appreciated elements of success. In this terrific book, Daniel Coyle reveals what’s really important, and how to foster a culture that helps your team thrive.

By David Stillman, Jonah Stillman

Gen Z at Work

Kids these days… Whatever you think you know about Generation Z is most likely wrong. This insightful summary will take you deeper into their psyche, motivations and expectations. Which will help reveal new ways to connect, manage and work with this empowered tribe.

By Steven Covey

The Speed of Trust

Steven Covey believes that trust is “the one thing that changes everything” in both business and life. Our summary reveals the steps you can take to foster this powerful force in all of your relationships.

By Ken Blanchard, Renee Broadwell

Servant Leadership In Action

When you become a leader, you give up your right to think of yourself first. Servant leadership is a behavioural model about always putting others first.

By Warren Bennis

On Becoming a Leader

Warren Bennis believes that leadership is a dance between knowing who you are as a person, and knowing the world and people around you. Get your dance instructions here…

By Arbinger Institute

Leadership & Self Deception

There is one specific thing holding us all back from becoming better leaders. Discover more about what it is and how it starts with getting out of “the box.”

By Gabrielle Oettingen

Rethinking Positive Thinking

Here’s something fascinating: the obstacles that we believe get in our way from achieving our greatest goals can actually help us accomplish them faster. Read our summary to find out why.

By Maxwell Maltz

Psycho Cybernetics

Maltz has lifted the lid on why so many people struggle to believe in their ability to succeed, both personally and professionally.

By Brene Brown

Daring Greatly

Brené Brown has written a refreshing take on modern courage, vulnerability and personal effectiveness. Our summary captures its true essence.

By Viktor Frankl

Man’s Search For Meaning

Viktor Frankl used “the will to meaning” to survive the Nazi concentration camps. What can you learn from him? Everything.

By Martin Seligman

Authentic Happiness

Science has a lot to say about what makes us happy, including how we think about our past, present and future. Learn it all here.

By Dan Harris

10% Happier

If finding bliss and nirvana has failed you, maybe finding the secrets to becoming 10% happier is the path to fulfilment. Find out how to do it here.

By Kim Scott

Radical Candor

What’s radical about candor? This summary defines a new leadership style as “Care Personally” + “Challenge Directly.” Learn how you can do it right.

By Roger Martin

Creating Great Choices

Learn how to create great choices instead of choosing the “least worst” option.

By Hendrie Weisinger, J.P. Pawliw-Fry

Performing Under Pressure

Feeling the pressure? You can still perform at your highest level with these fascinating tips based on scientific insights.

By Ray Dalio

Principles

Learn the principles the founder of the largest hedge fund on the planet uses to run his business and life. This is a game-changer.

By Daniel Levitin

The Organized Mind

This book teaches you how to use your mind – the most powerful tool you have – to focus on the work that’s most important to your success.

By Daniel Gilbert

Stumbling Upon Happiness

What will truly make you happy? This summary will give you the answer but be warned, it may not be what you are expecting!

By Dale Carnegie

How To Win Friends and Influence People

This is the book that started the personal development revolution.

By Tony Robbins

Unlimited Power

This personal development classic launched Tony Robbins career.

By Daniel Goleman

Focus

Learn how to develop the three types of focus you need in order to thrive.

By Kelly McGonigal

The Upside of Stress

As it turns out, whether or not stress is harmful has a lot to do with how you view it.

By Robert Greene

Mastery

This book is about creating the life you want through the pursuit of mastery.

By Ryan Holiday

The Obstacle Is The Way

Your life and business are full of obstacles. Get three new strategies to deal with them once and for all.

By Brene Brown

Rising Strong

If you are playing a big game, you are going to fail. How you get back up again matters. Learn how to do it right.

By Jeanne Segal

The Language of Emotional Intelligence

Learn the 5 critical skills you need to become an emotional intelligence powerhouse

By Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Emotional intelligence is critical to your success. Here’s how to level yourself up.

By Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg teaches us how habits are formed, how you can change them, and how you can make the change last.

By Atul Gawande

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande has a startling idea: that many of the problems that we face today can be solved by the simple, humble checklist.

By Paul Cherry

Questions That Sell

Some questions sell more than others. Author, Paul Cherry knows which ones do, and now you can too.

By Jerry Acuff

Start Thinking Like a Buyer

You can sell a lot more if you start thinking like a buyer, and stop acting like a seller. Read on to learn more.

By Jim Collins

How The Mighty Fall

There are 5 stages of decline in once great companies. Learn what they are so you don’t fall victim to them in your own business.

By Douglas Stone

Difficult Conversations

What are the 3 conversations inside every difficult conversation? What are the 5 steps to having a difficult conversation? The answers are, surprisingly, NOT difficult. Learn why and how in this very practical summary.

By Kerry Patterson

Crucial Conversations

Most human problems lie in how people behave when others disagree with them about important and emotional issues. Here’s how to do it well.

By Susan Scott

Fierce Conversations

Having real conversations where real and previously unspoken issues get resolved is at the heart of this fantastic book.

By Verne Harnish

Mastering The Rockefeller Habits

Learn the habits that highly successful, fast growing companies embed in their business.

By David Allen

Getting Things Done

It is possible to have an overwhelming number of things to do and still feel in command of every situation you find yourself in. Here’s how…

By Cal Newport

Deep Work

The key to success in the new economy is Deep Work. Find out what it means for you, right now.

By Napoleon Hill

Think And Grow Rich

This is the book that started the personal development revolution. Learn it again for the first time.

By Chet Holmes

The Ultimate Sales Machine

What do you need to focus on for sales mastery? The 12 things that are inside Chet Holmes’ Ultimate Sales Machine.

By Patrick Lencioni

The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team

There are five dysfunctions that plague every team. Fear not however, they’re rarely terminal and in this book summary, you’ll discover what they are and how to eliminate them – forever.

By Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman In The World

How do you become the greatest salesman in the world? Learn the ten lessons you need to learn to get there.

By Laszlo Bock

Work Rules

Learn now Lazlo Bock led people operations at Google during its time of greatest growth, and how he helped created one of the most unique corporate cultures on the planet.

By Shawn Achor

The Happiness Advantage

Shawn Achor is here to tell us how being happy is the prescursor to your success, not the result of it. Truly illuminating.

By Peter Senge

The Fifth Discipline

What is a learning organization and why does it matter? Learn the 5 disciplines required to get there with Peter Senge’s classic.

By Bill Schley

The Micro-Script Rules

It’s rare that a book title says it all, but if there was ever a book to do it, it’s this one. The Micro-Script Rules: It’s not what people hear. It’s what they repeat…

By Marylou Tyler, Jeremey Donovan

Predictable Prospecting

To get predictability in revenue, you need to have predictable lead generation. This book is your guidebook with the formulas you need to get there.

By Mike Crandall

Motivational Management

People come to work for their own reasons. Your job as a manager is to figure out what those reasons are. This book will help you get there.

By John Dini

Your Exit Map

Selling your business might be harder than you think. Here’s why you should start your exit planning today.

By Geoff Colvin

Talent Is Overrated

Geoff Colvin teaches us that the only path to greatness is through “deliberate practice.” Learn what it is, and how you can use it to reach the pinnacle of your field.

By Roy F. Baumeister

Willpower

Willpower is an elusive thing. Somedays you feel like you have it, other days you don’t. Here’s how to build your willpower muscle so you can accomplish your biggest goals.

By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow

One of the keys to creativity is to be in a state of flow. This book based on the seminal work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi teaches you how to get there.

By Tom Hopkins, Ben Katt

When Buyers Say No

Learn the 8 reasons prospects say no and what you can do about it, and you’ll be on your way to making more sales than you ever thought possible.

By Lolly Daskal

The Leadership Gap

In her book, The Leadership Gap, Lolly Daskal introduces us to a system of seven archetypes that will help you view yourself objectively, so you can identify the gaps you face as you work towards greatness.

By Chris Voss

Never Split The Difference

Learn the negotiation tactics Chris Voss mastered negotiating with terrorists while at the FBI. You’ll never negotiate the same way again.

By Roger Fisher

Getting To Yes

Negotiation is never easy, because almost nobody likes conflict. But you can find a better path to getting what you want while retaining a working relationship with the other side: principled negotiation.

By Teresa Amabile

The Progress Principle

The secret to great culture and performance is to create the conditions for great inner work life, empowering talented people to succeed at meaningful work. Find out how with the Progress Principle.

By Michael Bungay Stanier

The Coaching Habit

The Coaching Habit covers seven questions that will break you out of the vicious circles of over-dependent teammates, overwhelming amounts of work, and disconnection from the work that matters.

By Susan David

Emotional Agility

The hardest thing to manage in business? Your emotions. Susan David is our guide on how to do it well, so we can create a better business and a better life.

By James Altucher

Choose Yourself

In today’s world, you have the ability to do work you love, make millions of dollars, and change the world. All without “help.” James Altucher tells us how and why to do it.

By Noah Fleming

Customer Loyalty Loop

The Customer Loyalty Loop looks at the psychology of customer experience and what you can do to influence your customer to continue to do business with you over and over again.

By Joe Mechlinkski

Grow Regardless

In a hostile business environment, some companies have managed to grow regardless. But how? In this summary you’ll learn about the eQ Growth Methodology.

By Robert Cialdini

Presuasion

One of the most effective persuasion strategies is to put the person you are trying to persuade in a receptive state. Learn how to do it with Robert Cialdini’s Presuasion.

By Hal Elrod

The Miracle Morning

How you start your day sets the tone for your day. The tone for your day sets the trajectory of your life. Find out how the magic of The Miracle Morning can work for you.

By Craig Ballantyne

The Perfect Day Formula

The subtitle to Craig Ballantyne’s book The Perfect Day Formula says it all – how to own the day and control your life. We could all use a little more of that these days.

By John Ruhlin

Giftology

Learn all about the power of Giftology – strategic gift giving that opens up doors that would otherwise have remained closed – to dramatically increase your sales.

By Frank McKinney

Make It Big

How did Frank McKinney go from a broke 18-year-old to a millionaire and philanthro-capitalist? Learn from his 49 Principles and maybe you can do it too.

By Nick Loper

Buy Buttons

The next few years represent either the biggest opportunity or the biggest threat to your livelihood that you’ll experience in your lifetime. Buy Buttons helps you start generating a side income today, so that you can generate a full-time income when you must.

By Maddie Grant, Jamie Notter

When Millennials Take Over

Millennials are revolutionizing the way we view business. The social internet is powerful, but it was never going to revolutionize management on its own. And that’s where the Millennial steps in.

By Richard Branson

Business Stripped Bare

Regarded as one of the most successful business people in the world, Richard Branson is a force to be reckoned with. Learn what makes him and Virgin tick.

By Anders Ericsson

Peak

Why are some people so good at what they do? Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool say that no matter what field, improving is the direct result of “deliberate practice.

By Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin

From Impossible To Inevitable

Building a business that goes from zero to $100 million per year might seem like an impossible task. Follow the advice in this summary though, and it just might start to seem inevitable.

By Angela Duckworth

Grit

What do the world’s most successful people have in common? Grit. Find out exactly what it is and how you can start cultivating it in your business and life.

By Gary Vaynerchuk

#AskGaryVee

Learn the biggest lessons from entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk’s journey building not one, but two $100 million businesses from scratch

By Salim Ismail

Exponential Organizations

The world’s most innovative companies are disrupting entire industries, and yours could be next. Find out what it takes to be an Exponential Organization and grow 10x faster than your competition.

By Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

Extreme Ownership

What if leadership were literally life and death? Find out how the Navy SEALs lead to keep their teams alive, and how you can apply these ‘Extreme Ownership’ principles to your business as well.

By Jeb Blount

Fanatical Prospecting

The world’s best salespeople know that consistent prospecting is the key to a healthy pipeline, and thus, a healthy commission cheque. Learn how the to it with Jeb Blount’s book, Fanatical Prospecting.

By Adam Grant

Originals

Are you destined to do something truly great with your business and life?

Adam Grant has written Originals so you can follow in the footsteps of those who’ve blazed the trails before you.

By Aaron Ross

Predictable Revenue

Aaron Ross believes that building a sales machine to create ongoing, predictable revenue takes predictable lead generation, a team that connects marketing and sales, and a sales system. Here’s how.

By Eric Seigel

Predictive Analytics

We are surrounded by data. But what can we learn from it? In business, data collation is everywhere. We have an information gold rush – but where’s the gold? Let’s explore…

By Benji Rabhan

Convert Every Click

Website optimization is critical. But author Benji Rabhan believes that page-by-page optimization is where companies go wrong. He says to take a holistic approach, considering the sum of the parts.

By John Wooden

Wooden on Leadership

Legendary basketball coach John Wooden says that how we run the race of life and business — our planning, preparation, practice, and performance – count for everything. Winning is an after effect.

By John Jantsch

Duct Tape Marketing

The world is full of businesses of all sizes, large and small. Having scale lets you invest in growth. John Jantsch says to work in a systematic way and that’s what he covers in Duct Tape Marketing.

By Martin Lindstrom

Buyology

If marketers could uncover what makes us choose one brand over another, then they would have identified the secret to success. This is what Martin Lindstrom calls our Buyology. Let’s find out more.

By Chip And Dan Heath

Decisive

Chip & Dan Heath believe we need a process to help us make decisions and be more decisive. Join us to find out exactly what that process is and how it can help us make better life and work choices.

By Howard Schultz

Onward

Howard Schultz wanted to build a great, enduring company: a balance between revenues and relationships. The result was Starbucks. Join us to find out what we can learn from the Starbucks story.

By Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince

The description “Machiavellian” conjures up unscrupulous, opportunistic, amoral characteristics. But can we apply any of Niccolo Machiavelli’s lessons in today’s business world? We think so!

By Keith Farrazzi

Never Eat Alone

Keith Ferrazzi believes real networking is about finding ways to make other people more successful. His book Never Eat Alone is a full course banquet of advice on the subject. Let’s tuck in!

By Thomas Baumgartner

Sales Growth

Marc Benioff of salesforce.com is amazed that “MBA students can graduate without attending a class in sales.” McKinsey sets this right with Sales Growth, a look at the discipline of sales management.

By Robin Sharma

The Leader Who Had No Title

This book’s core message is: Growing and developing the leadership talent of everyone in your organization faster than the competition is the only way for companies to avoid getting eaten alive.

By Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements

Thousands of years ago, the Toltec were known throughout southern Mexico as people of knowledge and Ruiz believes if we follow their advice we can attain “personal freedom”. Here’s how…

By John Maxwell

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

John Maxwell has come up with 21 irrefutable laws of leadership, laws which if applied, can make us all more effective, more efficient, and more successful leaders.

By Stephen R. Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Wall Street Journal called this “the most influential business book of the century” and it’s certainly one of the most recognized. It remains an insightful reference for today’s leaders.

By Seth Godin

Permission Marketing

In 1999, Seth Godin estimated that the average consumer sees about one million marketing messages a year. Today that number is likely to have doubled. How do you get your customers to pay attention to yours? Read on…

By Howard Guttman

Great Business Teams

Great teams make great organizations. Average teams maintain the status quo, making average organizations. So what makes great business teams stand apart? Howard Guttman has the answers.

By Adam Grant

Give and Take

People can give or take. Takers put their interests ahead of others. Givers put others first, giving more than they get. Adam Grant says your success depends on how you interact with other people.

by Bill Schley

*The Unstoppables

Authors Bill Schley and Graham Weston believe the difference between entrepreneurs and everybody else is that entrepreneurs are the ones that step up to the plate and just keep swinging for success.

By Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

The One Thing

What’s the one thing you can do right now to change your life? The authors of this book suggest that instead of going after everything at once, successful people choose one activity that will bring the most reward.

By Bernadette Jiwa

Make Your Idea Matter

In her book Make Your Idea Matter, Bernadette Jiwa says the path to success is littered with great ideas poorly marketed. She suggests we need to make them matter for them to flourish.

By Connie Dieken

Talk Less, Say More

Connie Dieken says that face-to-face communication skills are plummeting in the 21st century. She believes we need to embrace 3 key habits to learn how to talk less, and still make things happen.

By Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D.

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

According to Dr. Joseph Murphy, when we control our thought processes, we can apply the power of our subconscious to any problem. In other words, it’s the world within that makes our world without.

By David Soberman & Dilip Soman

Flux

The landscape of customer interaction is in a state of flux. Customer data costs are dropping, and deep dive segmentation is easier than ever. We need tools and techniques to address this flux.

By Patrick Lencioni

The Advantage

Patrick Lencioni, says that the biggest opportunity for competitive advantage is not about strategy, finance or marketing. It’s about how we manage our organizations.

By Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point

How do you go viral with an idea, product, or business? Malcolm Gladwell’s groundbreaking classic – The Tipping Point – tells some great stories and dispenses invaluable advice.

By Jonah Berger

Contagious

Why do some things ‘catch on’? Marketing plays a role, but sometimes it just doesn’t explain viral success. Jonah Berger has come up with a smart structure for runaway contagious success.

By Lead Change Group

The Character Based Leader

When we show up for work and for our leadership roles, we bring our full self: principles, strengths, weaknesses, and fears. Here’s how to embrace our humanity and truly lead with character.

By Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D

Now, Discover Your Strengths

Markus Buckingham and Donald O Clifton claim that rather than focus on addressing the weaknesses of our teams, we need to exploit their talents and turn them into strengths.

By Neil Rackham

Spin Selling

Neil Rackham warns “Don’t trust what top performers tell you.” He then goes on to explain exactly how Top Performers manage to outsell their peers. Read on for his secret sauce…

By Thomas K. Connellan, Ph.D.

Bringing Out the Best in Others!

Whether as a manager, parent, coach or teacher, we all hope to improve performance. Thomas K. Connellan has the research and ideas to help us make ourselves and colleagues perform better.

By Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D

Who Are You Meant To Be?

Anne Dranitsaris and Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard align personality theories with current brain science in their new book, to help you truly define who you really are meant to be!

By Neil Rackham

First, Break All The Rules

How does a team manager attract and retain the most talented employees? According to Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman you must First, Break All the Rules. Have courage and watch this episode!

By Thomas K. Connellan, Ph.D.

Happy Hour is 9 to 5

We all know that happy employees, managers, customers, and suppliers make the best team. Alexander Kjerulf, a Chief Happiness Officer, reveals why in his new book: Happy hour is 9 to 5.

By Stephen Bistritz and Nicholas Read

Selling To The C-Suite

Selling to senior-level, or ‘C-Suite’, executives requires different skills and strategies from departmental-level sales pitches. It’s all about timing. Learn how in our summary of Selling to the C-Suite.

By Rich Horwath

Deep Dive

Do you have the strategic chops to make it in today’s ever-changing business battle? If not, it’s time to catch up with Rich Horwath’s invaluable, and possibly career-saving book Deep Dive.

By Jonathan Manske & Mattison Grey

The Motivation Myth

You’re wasting your time motivating with praise and compliments. This provocative idea is the basis of Jonathan Manske and Mattison Grey’s new book The Motivation Myth. It’s a must-read…

By Robert C. Pozen

Extreme Productivity

At some point, we’ve all asked ourselves “Where can I get more time to do the things I want to do?” The answer, from Robert C. Pozen, is found in his fascinating new book Extreme Productivity.

By Craig Garber

How to Make Maximum Money with Minimum Customers

There is no easy (and legal!) way to make big money. It takes serious planning and lots of thinking. But luckily, Craig Garber has some tips in How to Make Maximum Money with Minimum Customers.

By Daniel Mezick

The Culture Game

Daniel Mezick believes that organizations that learn fast can outflank their competitors. Teams that learn quickly are more adaptive…and adaptability gets better results by responding to change.

By Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson

The Challenger Sale

Want to be a more valuable salesperson? Want to be respected and admired by your customers? You want to be a Challenger, and Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson can show you how, right now.

By Mark Bowden

Winning Body Language For Sales Professionals

We all know that body language is a critical part of our conversations. In Mark Bowden’s new book you’ll learn why your movements and body actions speak much louder than your words.

By Nilofer Merchant

11 Rules for Creating Value in the #SocialEra

Traditional strategy is dead, thanks to a new ‘social’ workforce. Nilofer Merchant describes an intriguing plan for using social media to win the hearts and minds of our employees and customers.

By Richard Koch

The 80/20 Principle

How you choose to spend your time has an enormous impact on your success. Learn the secrets to becoming more productive with the time you already have.

By Michael Pantalon

Instant Influence

There are 6 scientifically proven steps to influencing the people in your life – in 7 minutes or less! Come learn what a Yale scientist has discovered about the science of influence.

By Heidi Grant Halvorson

Succeed

Setting goals is the easy part, but often the part we get wrong. Learn the scientifically proven way to set your goals so that you actually achieve them. Start by watching this video now!

By Oren Klaff

Pitch Anything

If you don’t understand exactly what “frame control” means, you are leaving opportunity and money on the table every time you pitch your ideas. Get that opportunity and money back right now!

By David Baker

Managing (Right) For The First Time

Woken up and found yourself as a leader, or worse, in middle management? Yikes. Luckily David Baker has some great advice to help you make it through the rest of the day doing more good than damage.

By Robert Cialdini

Influence

We all want it: that secret power to be able to influence anyone to do anything. Now, Dr. Robert Cialdini shows you how to harness this power for good business. You’re [not] getting sleepy.

By Richard Rumelt

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

You’re the head honcho, the big brain. Now that you’ve got ‘strategy’ in your job description it’s time to figure out what’s good, what’s bad, and what to leave for your retirement novel.

By Dan Ariely

Predictably Irrational

There’s just no rhyme or reason. Why do we splurge on an expensive meal but cut coupons to save pennies on a can of discount tuna? Something’s fishy here. Something irrational. Let’s find out why.

By Jocelyn Daw

Cause Marketing for Nonprofits

Corporate meets Caring. Profit meets non-profit. There’s hope for a new fusion of missions, and this book can guide you to developing mutually beneficial strategies and tactics.

By Julien Smith

The Flinch

Do you flinch? Do you duck, avoid, cower or hide from difficulty or danger? It’s no shame, but it’s a problem if you start flinching when you should be fighting. Let’s find out how.

By Dan S. Kennedy

The Ultimate Sales Letter

We all know how to write. Sort of. Kind of. Not really. Very few people can write effectively. And a powerful sales letter can be a very effective tool for your business. Your lesson begins here…

By Jeff Olson

The Slight Edge

Sometimes, it’s the slightest thing that spells the difference between success and failure. A webpage, an email, a note, or a phone call. It’s time for you to get that slight edge.

By Les McKeown

Synergist

Synergy is no 4-letter word. It’s not an overhyped concept. It’s the rarest of qualities in truly effective managers. Author Les McKeown details how this rare breed can bring out the best in teams.

By Josh Linkner

Disciplined Dreaming

Jazz is famously all about creativity and flow. In Josh Linkner’s inspiring book, you’ll learn how to harness music theory to create new ideas and inspire employees. Do more than just dream.

By Al Pittampalli

Read this Before our Next Meeting

Meetings suck. They can drain energy, money, and passion from any company. But there is hope. Watch this summary to put a new form of meeting on your agenda. It will transform your workplace.

By Keith Pigues

Winning With Customers

How valuable is your company to How valuable is your company to your customers? Why? How did it achieve that value? If you don’t know the answers, you can’t increase the value. Get a better playbook by watching this summary.

By Dean Jackson & Joe Polish

8 Profit Activators

There’s a lot of passion in these pages. And a lot of great advice, too. Dean Jackson and Joe Polish take an irreverent, insightful and unorthodox view on marketing. You’ll love it.

By John Kay

Obliquity

What is obliquity? Economist John Kay argues that being different, paradoxical, and counter-intuitive, often yields surprising results. Do a George Costanza, try an Opposite Day. See what happens!

By Peter Sims

Little Bets

Steve Jobs, Chris Rock, Frank Gehry, Pixar films, and an Army Chief all know that small discoveries and insights can be the fuel that transforms an era. So start small, think small, and aim big.

By Simon Sinek

Start With Why

Do you ever ask yourself why am I doing this? Why are others so much more successful than me? Why is that company getting so much more attention? Well, starting with the right question will lead you to the right answer…So start right here.

By Chip Conley

Peak

Chip Conley has found that people with creativity, flexibility, courage, willingness to make mistakes, openness, collegiality, and humility are the driving force behind successful businesses.

By Carol Dweck

Mindset

Change your mindset and you will see the world differently, and help yourself make positive changes in your life. True transformation really is all above your eyebrows.

By Jim Collins

Great by Choice

Jim Collins has studied great companies that have beaten their industry indexes at least 10 times over 15 years. You are going to be shocked at what he has uncovered.

By Michael Lewis

Money Ball

Sorry, no Brad Pitt here. Just the remarkable story of Billy Beane, and his goal to win in baseball’s Major League with one of the smallest payrolls. His solution? Stats! Ready to play some ball?

By Eric Ries

The Lean Startup

Just about every startup doesn’t. They fail, implode, bankrupt, and shatter dreams. But all is not lost. Follow Eric Ries’ theory and your startup may be one of the few to wildly succeed.

By Dave Grey

Gamestorming

Play some games to succeed? Seems wildly improbable. But Dave Grey’s fascinating book shows how creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can unlock new levels of success.

By Steven Pressfield

Do The Work

Are you your own worst enemy when it comes to work and deadlines? Ever started a project but never finished it? Find out how to get out of your own way and simply Do The Work in this video.

By Tim Ferris

4 Hour Body

Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger…all in 4 hours a week? Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Yep! Read on.

By Micah Solomon

Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit

One in the hand is worth two in the bush. Unforgettable Customer recognition builds powerful customer loyalty habits. And it all begins with a smile. Find out how in this fascinating video.

By Kerry Patterson

Influencer

Everyone wants more influence. Whether as a CEO, a dad, a friend, or an employee, we all want the ability to convince other people to do what we want. And this superpower can be within your reach.

By Richard Mayer

Multimedia Learning

Dry texts, chalky blackboards, and 2-dimensional tables are old school. Literally. Richard E.Mayer makes the case for a new style of learning, using new tools, new modes, and at last…creativity!

By Kevin Kruse

We

Companies with high levels of engagement produce 5x the shareholder value than those with lower levels. ‘WE’ by Karsan and Kruse bring us some wisdom from some of the world’s best companies.

By Chip And Dan Heath

Switch

Do you find that creating change is hard, both in yourself and in others? You aren’t alone. Luckily, the Heath Brothers have written the ultimate “how-to” book on creating change when it’s hard.

By Peter Kump

Breakthrough Rapid Reading

It’s time to turn your ‘books per month’ stat into ‘pages per minute’. The faster you can consume and understand what you are reading, the more you can learn. Get your finger out and go.

By Geno Church

Brains on Fire

Despite your worst efforts, there are communities of people already talking about your product. This book debuts some simple, practical ways to harness that multitude of goodness.

By Sheena Iynengar

The Art of Choosing

The choices we make create the life we live. In that context, we could all use a little help in making the right decisions, and defining what’s most important. This book can help.

By Gary Vaynerchuk

The Thank You Economy

Are you struggling to figure out exactly how the social media revolution applies to your business? Learn the skills necessary to guide your business into the Thank You Economy with this workshop.

By Scott Stratten

Unmarketing

Why do we continue to market to others in ways that we hate being marketed to? Does anyone really love telemarketing? Direct Mail? Intrusive TV ads? Time to break the cycle with Scott Stratten.

By Mark Bowden

Winning Body Language

Hands, face, arms, elbows, hips. They all speak volumes as you speak promises. Now, you can take control of all your signals by watching this summary video.

By Jack Welch

Winning

General Electric would probably be unplugged without Jack Welch. He turned the company into one of the 20th century’s biggest corporate success stories. What can you learn from Jack?

By Tom Searcy and Barbara Smith

Whale Hunting

Today’s Inuit still hunt whales the old-fashioned way. Using tools at hand they set out to land the big fish. You can too, without getting wet, by following the 9 principles in this book.

By Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright

Tribal Leadership

Every company is made up of tribes of people – groups of between 20 – 150 people. This book is all about identifying, developing, and leading those groups that can help drive your success.

By Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan

Three Laws of Performance

When work isn’t working, some managers struggle with motivating and leading their teams to greater performance. This book can help show you how.

By Tim Hurson

Think Better

It all starts with your brain. If you can’t think clearly, creatively, and critically, your team and organization will flounder. The rules inside this book will help you find that neural nirvana.

By Scott Davis

The Shift

Scott Davis has mined a treasure trove of corporate experience and trench stories to bring us this fascinating new book on the fundamental changes your business world faces.

By Marcia Conner

The New Social Learning

Social media: it’s not just for teens and coffee shop hipsters anymore. As the medium evolves it’s creating opportunities for organizations large and small to reinvent themselves.

By Nifoler Merchant

The New How

Just like your hairstyle, how you ‘do’ what you do needs to change with the times, and there’s no better guide to business reinvention than Nilofer Merchant’s provocative tome.

By Roger Martin

The Design of Business

Saying you want to be innovative is about as effective as sleeping on your homework. It takes ‘design thinking’ to really create true change. learn how right here with Roger Martin.

By Jacqueline Novogratz

The Blue Sweater

What drives a woman to leave a career in international finance to work in the developing world to understand the underpinnings of poverty? This inspiring story has some amazing answers.

By Stephen R. Covey

The 8th Habit

Got time for one more habit? The world has evolved since the international bestseller “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” was published. High time for another habit, don’t you think?

By Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Rework

Contrarians rejoice: we’ve found your rulebook. From the makers of Basecamp and Highrise, comes a new kind of manifesto. Settle in for an infectious dose of radical reimagining.

By Randy Pennington

Results Rule

It’s all about the numbers. At the end of the day every gee-whiz strategy, marketing tactic or pricing shenanigans are only in the service of results. So, your results better drive decisions.

By Bill Taylor

Practically Radical

It’s all about the numbers. At the end of the day every gee-whiz strategy, marketing tactic, or pricing shenanigans are only in the service of results. So, your results better drive decisions.

By Christopher Morin and Patrick Renvoise

Neuromarketing

Understand your neurons and you can conquer all. Patrick Renvoise and Christophe Morin go deep into brain science to devise a cunning formula for marketing success.

By Chip And Dan Heath

Made to Stick

What are the S.U.C.C.E.S.S secrets of the world’s best storytellers? Find out how you can harness these secrets to help your message break through the noise in the marketplace today.

By Jim Collins

Good to Great

This book is a masterclass in business innovation. It defines why only some companies can make the leap from good to great. Required reading for this generation’s aspirationals.

By Joseph Jaffe

Flip the Funnel

It’s 2013. Retention is the new acquisition. Loyalty is the new currency. Black is the new black…. whatever the advice, traditional is out and opposites are in. Joe Jaffe has the lowdown.

By Daniel Pink

Drive

Almost everything you know about what motivates you is just plain wrong. Dan Pink goes scientific on the brain to reveal what we really know about motivation.

By Youngme Moon

Different

You’ve heard it before: to succeed you need to stand out, to be different, to be unique. Frankly, it’s exhausting hearing all these rules. What we need is a little more meat on the advice bone.

By Tony Hsieh

Delivering Happiness

Culture is everything. As the visionary Zappos CEO Tony Hseih preaches, you should make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Here’s how…

By Gary Vaynerchuk

Crush It

Gary V. raises a glass to the fine art of turning your passions into a business. He’s brilliant, he’s brash, he’s relentlessly inspiring. Time for a little Vay-Ner-Chuk!

By Tim Brown

Change By Design

Brilliant ideas are born in a flash of insight. Sorry. They are the result of process, of hard work, by design. And this is your guidebook to that process.

By John Medina

Brain Rules

Multitasking is a lie. A devious devil of mistruth. The reality is that your brain cannot biologically multitask…it can only unitask. But you can learn to think more efficiently and effectively.

By John Spence

Awesomely Simple

The six core strategies to elevate any business-and how to implement them-made simple

By Bill George

7 Lessons For Leading In A Crisis

Times are tough. They always have been (despite what we think), and always will be (despite what we wish). But Bill George has some great advice on how to get ahead and build success anyway.