Portfolio imprint: 521 books
Louder than Words
Harness the Power of Your Authentic Voice
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The next step in personal effectiveness, by the acclaimed author of The Accidental Creative and Die Empty.
There has never been a better time to build an audience around your idea or product. But with so many people and companies clamoring for attention, it’s also more challenging than ever...
The Right Kind of Crazy
A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
From Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, comes a profound book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossible
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is home to some of history’s most jaw-dropping feats...
Superbosses
How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
"Superbosses is the rare business book that is chock full of new, useful, and often unexpected ideas. After you read Finkelstein's well-crafted gem, you will never go about leading, evaluating, and developing talent in quite the same way.”—Robert Sutton, author of Scaling Up Excellence and The...
Making Yourself Indispensable
The Power of Personal Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
An inspirational self-improvement guide from a leader in personal and organizational accountability. Every day, we are faced with decisions from the moment we wake up until the moment we go to bed. Decisions about our families, our business, our futures. We are accountable for making decision, big...
No Hard Feelings
The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
**Wall Street Journal Bestseller!
Next Big Idea Club selection―chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season!"
"A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don't belong...
That's Not How We Do It Here!
A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
** What’s the worst thing you can hear when you have a good idea at work?
“That’s not how we do it here!”**
In their iconic bestseller Our Iceberg Is Melting, John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber used a simple fable about penguins to explain the process of leading people through major changes....
Succession
Mastering the Make-or-Break Process of Leadership Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Noel Tichy has been the trusted adviser on management succession to companies including Royal Dutch Shell, Nokia, Intel, Ford, and Mercedes Benz. Succession distills his decades of experience and provides a practical framework for building effective transition pipelines - for multi-billion dollar...
You Already Know How to Be Great
A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock Your Greatest Potential
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
A bold new approach to performance by one of the top coaches in the country.
In trying to improve-on the playing field, in the office, or even at home-most people seek out new information to get to the next level. They read a book, attend a class, or hire an expert to give them an edge.
But...
The Management Gurus
Lessons from the Best Management Books of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Insightful summaries of fifteen outstanding management books
Since 1978, Soundview Executive Book Summaries has offered its subscribers condensed versions of the most relevant and influential business books published each year. The company has won acclaim as the definitive selection service...
Psyched Up
How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Closing the sale. Asking for a raise. Nailing the big presentation. Of the 2,000 hours you work every year, your success or failure is determined in the couple of dozen crucial hours when you need to bring your absolute best. Will you?
The last few minutes before a major challenge can be terrifying....
An Audience of One
Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The creator of the Unmistakable Creative podcast makes a counterintuitive argument: By focusing your creative work on pleasing yourself, you can increase your productivity, happiness, and (eventually, paradoxically) the size of your audience.
Creating for your own pleasure--whether you're writing...
Growing Great Employees
Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
How to develop an all-star staff, even if you don’t know the first thing about managing
“Your employees are, like you and me, flawed and hopeful human beings whose success is at least partly dependent on your skill as a manager, human beings who will thrive with skillful and consistent...
by Jason Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2002
In an age when every business needs to achieve more with fewer resources, Jason Jennings offers the key to ramping up productivity. In this BusinessWeek bestseller, he identifies the world’s most productive companies and reveals their secrets—none of which, surprisingly, include layoffs. The companies...
Killing Giants
10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Everyone thought Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry were crazy to start Method, a new cleaning products company. The category had long been dominated by P&G, Unilever, and Colgate-Palmolive. Those giants had so much clout with the retail chains that their soaps had barely needed updating for decades. But...