New Business Book Summary Available for Future Smart

In Future Smart, author and futurist James Canton provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the technological, social, and environmental trends that are shaping the future. With knowledge of the future, Canton argues, entrepreneurs can start producing forward-thinking, actionable ideas that will ensure the success of their organizations. A guidebook to the business risks and opportunities of the future, Future Smart illustrates the importance of designing game-changing innovations, plans, and strategies today to ensure a successful tomorrow.

New Business Book Summary Available for Hello Stay Interviews, Goodbye Talent Loss

Although talent is the greatest asset of any company, most managers do not try to keep their key players from leaving until it is too late. In Hello Stay Interviews, Goodbye Talent Loss, Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans provide a comprehensive playbook to conducting stay interviews, a managerial tool essential to both retaining talent and building more engaged, committed teams. By using stay interviews to both inform employees that they are highly valued and to learn what it will take for them to stay with their companies, managers can retain their most talented team members for the long term.

New Business Book Summary Available for The Highly Paid Expert

In The Highly Paid Expert, Debbie Allen provides readers with the tools and knowledge to market themselves as experts in their particular fields. She emphasizes a varied self-marketing strategy that employs online aspects, social media, referrals, and grassroots promotions. Allen outlines a multifaceted plan for professionals to turn their passions into profits as expert coaches, consultants, authors, or public speakers.

New Business Book Summary Available for Breaking Through "Bitch"

In Breaking Through “Bitch,” Carol Vallone Mitchell examines why and how women must lead differently than men in today’s business climate by “feminizing” leadership competencies. She outlines a nine-part leadership competency model based on the experiences of successful female executives that aspiring women leaders can apply to their own journeys to the top.

New Business Book Summary Available for Don’t Wear Flip-Flops to Your Interview

Competition for jobs has become tougher, and people have become a lot more astute about conducting a job search, so just sending out a few résumés and waiting for a response is no longer a valid way to look for a position. Rather, assigning themselves the “job” of looking for a job is the way successful job seekers operate today. It takes the right combination of energy, commitment, and optimism, tempered with a sense of humor, to keep the doldrums away while searching for a job. In Don’t Wear Flip-Flops to Your Interview, Dr. Paul Powers shares his years of experience helping people obtain jobs they love.

New Business Book Summary Available for Screw the Valley

Screw the Valley is Timothy Sprinkle’s take on the tech startup boom in places outside of the California Bay area. He encourages entrepreneurs to look at other regions of the country when locating their businesses. Sprinkle visited seven different areas and interviewed leaders at all levels, from new entrepreneurs to seasoned tech veterans to venture capitalists. He shares his findings about each city and its appeal to tech startups and their employees.

New Business Book Summary Available for The Conscience Economy

In The Conscience Economy, strategy and innovation consultant Steven Overman describes how the desire of consumers and businesses to make a positive impact on the world is driving the global economy. Today’s new generation of technology-savvy, interconnected customers have both the vision and the power to choose what companies they buy from based on their value systems. Businesses, in turn, must understand that transparency and awareness are the keys to sustainable growth in today’s Conscience Economy.