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execuBooks (Business Book Summaries)

Working together with our content partner, execuGo Media, execuBooks are the simple, smart way for busy executives to quickly and easily stay abreast of the knowledge they need to succeed:

• Over 350 summaries of leading business books
• Fifteen minute reading experiences
• Online (Internet/Intranet) and offline (print) viewing
• Continued content growth at no additional cost throughout the subscription term
• Published and delivered new via email every week

Who are they for?

If you are a business professional with little time who believes that knowledge is crucial to growing competitive advantage, then execuBooks are for you!

How do they work?
Professional writers and editors constantly review, select and summarize the best of current and upcoming business books into 15-minute summaries that are delivered to annual subscribers new every week for reading in print or on screen with any standard device.

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Sample Book Summaries:

Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have by Justin Menkes In this execuBook author Justin Menkes identifies, through interviews with some thirty of the most celebrated CEOs, the set of aptitudes that determine how well an executive performs; refocusing attention on what really determines leadership aptitude.  This summary will aid all business managers in developing a means to improve their own performance as well as identify and cultivate the critical mass of talent their organizations so desperately seek
Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage by Robert M. Fulmer and Jay A. Conger In this execuBook, authors Fulmer and Conger summarize best-practices in succession management programs. Since talent directly affects the performance of the organization, it is only natural that a good succession plan sets up a mandate for the organization - to get and keep the best talent.  This summary provides a proactive vehicle for managers and executives to use in retaining their most talented potential leaders, while linking that succession management to business strategy.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb This summary will be of interest to everyone who seeks a better understanding of knowledge and its limitations.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath This summary is an entertaining guide to effective communication. It will be of interest to all managers, and especially useful for those in communications roles.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni Often these five dysfunctions are mistakenly interpreted as distinct issues to be addressed in isolation. In reality they are interrelated, making susceptibility to even one of them potentially lethal to the success of a team.
Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End by Rosabeth Moss Kanter This summary is for managers and other business professionals who need to inspire and nurture confidence and the resilience needed to shape positive expectations for their next team endeavor.
A Leader’s Legacy by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner This summary explores some of the key aspects of leadership that are needed for a lasting legacy. It will be of interest to corporate leaders and those who aspire to leadership roles.
Winning: Everyone Wants to Win, Not Everyone Knows How by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch This summary offers proven insights and solutions to nuts-and-bolts issues that will change the way managers and strategists think about winning in business.