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Biblical solutions to dozens of the toughest challenges leaders face today. Concise, to-the-point, and highly useable, How to Lead by THE BOOK presents a series of personal and business challenges recognizable to leaders, then deals with each through insight, personal experience, and a discussion...

The world's inhabitants, a population of seven billion people and growing, are living on the hinge of history.Arising from a set of intuitive responses to unprecedented life-conditions - prior to and following the globalization of communications and trade - dilemmas now abound that need...

Until the 1990s, the main users of safeguards and antidumping laws were Australia, Canada, the European Union, and the United States. Since then, many countries have implemented such laws, leading to a proliferation in antidumping and safeguard activity across the world. This timely book documents the...

This work offers a summary of the book “I’LL MAKE YOU AN OFFER YOU CAN’T REFUSE: Insider Business Tips From a Former Mob Boss” by Michael Franzese.Michael Franzese, a former mob boss, puts forward a first surprising, but convincing hypothesis: organized crime is not profitable by accident. The...

This work offers a summary of the book “GROUP GENIUS: The Creative Power of Collaboration” by Keith Sawyer.Collaboration is the real secret to breakthrough creativity – not a lone genius having an “Aha!” flash of inspiration. As Keith Sawyer explains in Group Genius, genuinely new ideas are...

This ebook offers a summary of the book "Enchantment" by Guy Kawasaki.Even if you have an insanely great mousetrap, the world will not beat a path to your door. Everyone’s busy doing their own thing. In practice, the greater your mousetrap is, the harder it will be to get people to embrace it because...

This work offers a summary of the book “HUNDRED PERCENTERS: Challenge Your Employees To Give It Their All and They’ll Give You Even More” by Mark Murphy.In order to motivate your employees to be 100% workers, you need to be a 100% leader. Mark Murphy has analyzed the style and decisions of 125,000...

This work offers a summary of the book "AMAZON.COM GET BIG FAST: Inside the Revolutionary Business Model That Changed the World" by Robert Spector. Who would have thought, twenty years ago, that we would be buying books from a computer, let alone reading them from a digital tablet? Interestingly,...

This work offers a summary of the book “IN PURSUIT OF ELEGANCE: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing” by Matthew E. May.Every business is in search of a product or concept that is elegant, that customers love so much that they recommend it to all their friends. Matthew E.May explains that there...

This work offers a summary of the book “IF YOU DON’T MAKE WAVES YOU’LL DROWN: 10 Hard-Charging Strategies for Leading in Politically Correct Times” by Dave Anderson.Political correctness, Dave Anderson believes, is draining the health and vitality out of many businesses, because it encourages...

This work offers a summary of the book “INVISIBLE ADVANTAGE: How Intangibles Are Driving Business Performance” by Jonathan Low and Pam Kalafut.Every business will have intangible assets, like customer loyalty, brand equity, and the ability to quickly act on strategy. None of these will show up on...

This work offers of the book “HOW WE COMPETE: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make It in Today’s Global Economy” by Suzanne Berger.The MIT Industrial Performance Center analyzed the real-world experiences of more than 500 international companies: Suzanne Berger looks at this data in...

This work offers a summary of the book “GUERRILLA MARKETING GOES GREEN: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet” by Jay Conrad Levinson and Shel Horowitz.Jay Conrad Levinson is the chairman of Guerrilla Marketing International, a consulting firm. He is regarded as one of the leading...

This work offers a summary of the book “INEVITABLE SURPRISES: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence” by Peter Schwartz.Most “surprises” that will hit the economic world in the next 25 years are in fact predictable, and inevitable. Every savvy businesspeople should be aware of these changes and...