New Business Book Summary Available for Good for You, Great for Me

Many executives do not want to just reach win-win negotiations--they want to win at win-win negotiations. In Good for You, Great for Me, Lawrence Susskind taps into his years of experience as a negotiation and mediation expert to demonstrate how negotiators can land better deals with less resistance from their negotiating counterparts. To this end, Susskind provides six negotiation principles and ancillary strategies that negotiators can implement to gain an edge in mutually advantageous negotiations.

New Business Book Summary Available for The Bubble Economy

A volatile combination of housing bubbles, subprime mortgages, bank bailouts, financial deregulations, Wall Street manipulations, and overseas debt crises crashed the global economy in 2008. Since then, slow growth and rising inequality have kept the global economy unstable. In The Bubble Economy, Robert U. Ayres connects economic instability and the economics of energy by describing the role of energy, the history of bubbles and busts, the failure of financial regulation, and the environment of climate change. Ayres also provides a plan for replacing instability with sustainability. His plan suggests that governments redirect investments toward renewable energy to trigger economic growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase employment, and improve long-term investment opportunities.

New Business Book Summary Available for The Essential Workplace Conflict Handbook

Wherever there is people, there will inevitably be conflict, because all people are different. Properly handled, conflict can spark creative solutions to problems, foster innovative thinking, and boost productivity, while mishandled conflict can lead to bullying or even violence. Managers at all levels must therefore know how to resolve conflict in the workplace. Specific skills they must acquire include the ability to ask the right questions until all the facts emerge; active listening and ease of dialogue; an awareness of differing conflict styles and how best to handle them; and when to back away from conflict, recognizing that the problem belongs to someone else. The Essential Workplace Conflict Handbook by Barbara Mitchell and Cornelia Gamlem offers managers the training and guidelines necessary for managing conflict.

New Business Book Summary Available for The Evolution of Everything

Evolution is a concept that is associated most commonly with the natural world. However, in The Evolution of Everything, Matt Ridley argues that evolution happens in every aspect of human culture. In domains as diverse as morality, technology, money, and religion, there is evidence that the world is a self-organizing, self-changing place that cannot be controlled or commanded by mankind. Ridley purports that evolution occurs not from top-down design but from bottom-up emergence.