Business Book Summaries imprint: 68 books

This work offers a summary of the book “GROWING YOUR COMPANY’S LEADERS: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management To Sustain Competitive Advantage” by Robert Fulmer and Jay Conger.Robert Fulmer is academic director for Duke Corporation and a visiting professor at Pepperdine University....

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 “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...

This work offers a summary of the book “HIGH NOON: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems” by Karen Southwick.Karen Southwick charts the success of Sun Microsystems from a start-up in 1982, to 1999, when over half companies worldwide are using Java technology, and Sun...

This work offers a summary of the book “INNOVATION THAT FITS: Moving Beyond the Fads to Choose the Right Innovation Strategy For Your Business” by Michael Lord, Donald Debethizy and Jeffrey Wager.Innovation that Fits is based on a commonsense principle: innovation is not predicated on faddish ideas...

This work offers a summary of the book “HOW TO THINK LIKE A MILLIONAIRE: Ten of the world’s most successful people reveal secrets of their success” by Charles-Albert Poissant.Charles-Albert Poissant has researched successful businesspeople across a number of markets and has concluded that these...

This work offers a summary of the book “HOW TO PICK STOCKS LIKE WARREN BUFFETT: Profiting From the Bargain Hunting Strategies of the World’s Greatest Value Investor” by Timothy VickWarren Buffett is an investor with one of the world’s best track records: Timothy Vick has researched his strategies,...

This work offers a summary of the book “INTUITION AT WORK: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better At What You Do” by Gary Klein.Studies have shown about 90% of the critical decisions a person actually makes will generally be based more on their “gut feelings” about the right thing...

This work offers a summary of the book “HERE COMES EVERYBODY: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations” by Clay Shirky.Clay Shirky is a writer, teacher and consultant. He is an adjunct professor in New York University’s graduate program in interactive telecommunications. Mr. Shirky specializes...

This work offers a summary of the book “IF YOU BUILD IT WILL THEY COME? Three Steps to Test and Validate Any Market Opportunity” by Rob Adams.Successful entrepreneurs don’t just plunge in without doing their research: before investing money they prove that a market exists, and that the market is...

This work offers a summary of the book “HARD DRIVE: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire” by James Wallace and Jim Erickson.In this revealing portray of America's youngest millionaire, two investigative reporters relate the successful career of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. In 1968,...