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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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How to Convert Feedback Into Leadership Enhancement

Tullio Siragusa

How to Convert Feedback Into Leadership Enhancement. This is the kind of leadership behavior that takes organizations to the horizons of success with millions of satisfied customers, content employees, and record level profits. A 2013 study by Forbes reflects that leaders who give effective feedback are more trusted by their teams.

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6 Leadership Roles to Expand Innovative, Collaborative Thinking

BrainZooming

For example, while designing and facilitating an early Brainzooming online collaboration in 2013, a nonprofit’s leader decided to change his participant role. His strategy opened the door to other intriguing perspectives leaders can adopt to expand their personal leadership repertoires. . Was afraid to address.

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The Nuclear Way: Submarine Leadership Challenges

MSSBTI

How would you adjust to transferring from a self contained organization with a command and control leadership style to one with a distributed leadership style? This is where the shift in leadership style from command and control to distributive pays off. How would you adapt? How would you prepare? And how would you be received?

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The Covert Cost of Poor Communication: A Business Wake-Up Call

Daniel Burrus

Back in 2013, the CEO of Yahoo! We have all heard that the key to becoming a successful business is effective communication and collaboration, but do we really know what that means? Unfortunately for many business leaders, they believe they do. But the reality is they actually struggle with the concept. Continue reading on burrus.com »

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Tony Hsieh – The Remarkable Cultural Innovator at Zappos

Destination Innovation

In 2013 it became a holacracy without job titles, where employees could self-organize. It offers leadership training courses including the “School of Wow.”. In 2013 he pledged $350m for the project. At that point, Amazon acquired Zappos.com for $1.2 He upended the company structure.

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Listen to Employees When Evaluating Leadership

Adam Hartung

A Banks jumped onto the list as #4 in 2013. And, of course, Radio Shack made the list in 2012 (#3,) 2013 (#5) and 2014 (#11) only to file bankruptcy in 2015. Employees have consistently expressed their dismay with CEO Ed Lampert, and 80% actively dislike his leadership. In 2013 the stock rose to $85 as it made the list #3.