Executive Book Summaries

This is selection of the latest innovations of Western management thought. The first collection included six works from the common areas of Management, Leadership, Management, Marketing and Innovation. The genius of collection that is selected from the works of the most important and kept in a short summary. If literature is a controversial decision, then the business literature, in my opinion justified.

Know-How
by Ram Charan
This book explores what every executive must know to manage today’s environmental challenges. Based on the authors’ years of experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders around the world, the book shows how companies generate lasting value by building environmental thinking into their business strategies.

Success Built to Last
by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson
Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices and using them to transform your company, your career and your life. Authored by three nationally acclaimed thought leaders in organizational development and self-improvement –– including Built to Last co-author Jerry Porras –– Success Built to Last challenges conventional wisdom at every step.

The Number
by Lee Eisenberg
Millions of people in the United States are going to fall short of their retirement needs … and not just in terms of money. It's not a topic many of these people are interested in discussing, as it may cause various levels of distress, even anxiety. However, the aversion to addressing retirement planning now sets up certain - and greater - worries later in life.

Influencer
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
From the authors that brought you Crucial Confrontations comes their thought-provoking look at how individuals –– no matter who they are –– can become the type of influencers that are bringing about change in the world. Influencer takes readers on a journey across the globe, showing them how seemingly “insignificant” people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible.

Intellectual Property
by Paul Goldstein
Intellectual property. The term itself suggests the nature of the challenge. How can a product of the mind become the subject of precise, bound property rights? Elusive as intellectual property boundaries are, the business value they secure are enormous, according to author Paul Goldstein.

Judgment
by Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis
Whether you’re discussing former United States presidents, Fortune 500 CEOs, military generals or college hockey coaches, leaders are remembered for their best and worst judgment calls. According to business gurus Tichy and Bennis, it is a leader’s judgment that can determine the fate of the entire organization.