Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr)...
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies." So write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book that shatters myths, provides new insights, and gives practical guidance to those who would like to build landmark companies that stand the test of time.
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Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Jeff Howe
How were a bunch of part-time dabblers in finance able to help an investment company consistently beat the market? Why does pharmaceutical giant Proctor & Gamble repeatedly call on enthusiastic amateurs to solve scientific and technical challenges? How can companies as diverse as iStock and Threadless employ just a handful of people and yet generate millions of dollars in revenue every year?
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
Nicholas Carr
While it may seem that we're in the midst of an unprecedented technological transition, Carr posits that the direction of the digital revolution has a strong historical corollary: electrification. Carr argues that computing, no longer personal, is going the way of a power utility. Manufacturers used to provide their own power (i.e., windmills and waterwheels) until they plugged into the electric grid a hundred years ago.
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Successful Strategy Execution: How to Keep Your Business Goals on Target
Michel Syrett
Strategy-to-performance gaps foster a culture of under-performance. Unrealistic plans create the expectation throughout the organization that they simply will not be fulfilled. This book shows how to overcome such failings and implement strategy effectively.
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Business Strategy: A Guide to Effective Decision-Making
Jeremy Kourdi
A business's overall strategy may be set at board level, but many people throughout the organization will be involved in deciding that strategy and implementing it — making decisions that are strategic in nature. On these decisions hangs the future of the business: how it develops and whether it is successful.
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The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)
Patrick Lencioni
A bestselling author and business guru tells how to improve your job satisfaction and performance. In his sixth fable, bestselling author Patrick Lencioni takes on a topic that almost everyone can relate to: the causes of a miserable job. Millions of workers, even those who have carefully chosen careers based on true passions and interests, dread going to work, suffering each day as they trudge to jobs that make them cynical, weary, and frustrated.
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Death by Meeting
Patrick Lencioni
Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life. In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin. Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial future, and the company he had built from scratch.
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The Five Temptations of a CEO
Patrick Lencioni
As he stared out the picture window from his office, Andrew O'Brien wondered how it had come to this. Tomorrow would be the one-year anniversary of his promotion to CEO. It would also be the first board meeting where he would be accountable for the results of an entire fiscal year. Those results, as he had grown accustomed to saying, were "unspectacular at best."
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Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars
Patrick Lencioni
In yet another page-turner, New York Times best-selling author and acclaimed management expert Patrick Lencioni addresses the costly and maddening issue of silos, the barriers that create organizational politics. Silos devastate organizations, kill productivity, push good people out the door, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals. As with his other books, Lencioni writes Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars as a fictional—but eerily realistic—story.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.
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