New Business Book Summary Available for Winning the Brain Game

Although the human brain is capable of great things, it is also susceptible to a variety of unproductive thinking patterns. In Winning the Brain Game, Matthew E. May defines the seven fatal flaws of thinking that kill innovative ideas and prevent professionals from developing effective solutions to today’s biggest problems. Drawing on psychology and neuroscience, May explains the cause of each of these flaws as well as the techniques professionals can implement to prevent them.

New Business Book Summary Available for Everydata

The increasing influx of data in an average person’s life may at times seem overwhelming. It is not uncommon, when presented, for some of this data to be misrepresented, misinterpreted, and misused. In Everydata, John H. Johnson and Mike Gluck explain how people can learn to assess, process, and utilize the data that surrounds them to improve their decision making. They define statistical and economical terms, reinforce the need to review information critically, and provide tips to help people become smart consumers of everyday data.

New Business Book Summary Available for Pivot Points

In Pivot Points, Julia Tang Peters explores the five pivotal decisions that nearly all professionals must make during their careers. These pivot points lead some to success and others to failure, and how people manage them will determine whether they continue to grow or stagnate. In this book, Peters examines five highly successful business leaders, analyzes their personal pivot points, and discusses the long-term effects of their decisions.

New Business Book Summary Available for Serial Winner

In Serial Winner, Larry Weidel takes an in-depth look at the traits of winners, the cycle of winning, and the strategies serial winners use to succeed time after time. He presents five actions people can take to help achieve success: deciding, overdoing, adjusting, finishing, and improving. Winners who employ these strategies also dig deep to find the mental toughness they need to maintain forward progress and reach their final goals.

New Business Book Summary Available for Coherence

Business leaders face incredible challenges on a daily basis, each taking its toll on their energy levels and ability to respond and react positively. In Coherence, Dr. Alan Watkins sheds light on the basic issues that can limit people's overall effectiveness in the workplace and offers solutions that address the physiological and psychological factors that play a role. Watkins shows leaders how to become younger, smarter, healthier, and happier, giving them the ability to make exceptional decisions under pressure and achieve sustainable success at every level.

New Business Book Summary Available for Black Hole Focus

The toughest decision a person will ever make is determining his or her ultimate purpose in life. Most people let life make this critical decision for them instead of making their own choices. The result is that they end up focusing on short-term objectives and frittering their lives away on endless streams of small, meaningless decisions that have no real impact. Black Hole Focusexplains how people can avoid this hollow fate, decide on a purpose, and align their lives around a chosen path.

New Summary Available for Actionable Intelligence

Leaders yearn for valuable information to help them assess risks and analyze opportunities quickly and efficiently. Businesses are fed large amounts of information for their operations, but they typically lack a central, enterprise-wide approach that lets them view all the data at one time. Also, information gathering can be time consuming, costly, and difficult. In Actionable Intelligence, Kevin B. Carter shows that business leaders are seeking actionable intelligence: the right information available at their fingertips, providing the knowledge they need to more easily make timely decisions and take proactive actions. With Carter’s approach, big data has the potential to make life easier for all business stakeholders to deliver sustainable improvements. He details a new way of approaching data that can spark organizations to think bigger and act better.

Step Up

It is the people who step up to exercise leadership in critical moments that ultimately achieve greater success within their organizations. However, few people are able to recognize the moments that are opportunities to exercise leadership. In Step Up, Henry Evans and Colm Foster identify six common “leadership moments” every professional should recognize along with what actions they must take when they encounter them. By demonstrating leadership in each of the six moments, leaders will be able to improve their overall performances and further their careers.

HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Strategic Marketing

Thanks to changing customers and a changing business environment, marketing techniques also need to change in order to be successful. Although it is no longer at the front end of the sales funnel, marketing is increasingly becoming a strategic partner in driving improved business results. In turn, these results are becoming more and more dependent on understanding and serving customers in innovative and thoughtful ways. HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Strategic Marketing provides valuable insights into the changing landscape of the marketing function, as well as practical steps for reinventing their marketing processes to better serve customers and drive profitable growth.

This is How To Get Your Next Job

Anyone who thinks skills, education, and experience should be enough to snag a coveted position needs to think again. In This Is How to Get Your Next Job, Andrea Kay informs readers that behavior, attitude, and appearing to be a “good fit” are what tip the scales when an employer selects a new hire. Kay believes job hunters who are having a hard time getting hired need to pay attention to how they “seem” as much as what they have to offer. By paying attention to the “dos and don’ts” of job hunting and presenting a “best self” that matches the wants, needs, and preferences of the employer, any candidate can gain the competitive edge and land his or her dream job.

Every day, people face decisions small and large that must be made without a clear picture of the risks involved. In Risk Intelligence, Dylan Evans provides the tools and techniques to make such decisions easier and more fruitful. It turns out that different people have different levels of risk intelligence (RQ), which explains why some people consistently make wise decisions while others always make bad choices. Some aspects of RQ might be innate, but Evans’s research into individuals and groups who are especially good at assessing risks shows that anyone can boost his or her RQ. All it takes is a commitment to assign numbers to possible outcomes and carry out some simple calculations. Evans also explains the road blocks that society and the brain put in the way of making such a commitment and provides ways to overcome them.