New Summary Available for The Elements of Mentoring

Mentors are the responsible leaders in a relationship that should be mutually rewarding. The ultimate goal is to develop a protégé that is more capable, more comfortable, more confident, and better connected within the organization. Like any relationship, mentorships require planning, goal setting, reinforcement, nurturing, and regular review to ensure that both individuals are getting what they need from the partnership. In The Elements of Mentoring, W. Brad Johnson and Charles R. Ridley discuss the components of a successful mentorship, as well as the pitfalls that must be avoided to see it through to a successful end.

New Business Book Summary Available for Seven Disciplines of a Leader

Leaders make or break organizations. To help organizations succeed, Jeff Wolf and Ken Shelton have condensed Wolf’s Leadership Development Program into their book, Seven Disciplines of a Leader. It is based on Wolf’s 14 years of executive coaching and management training for international clients. Readers will learn how to motivate and inspire people to improve decision making, teamwork, and employee engagement. As a result, they will help their organizations attract the best people, which is the key to organizational excellence and, ultimately, profitability and growth. Wolf and Shelton have drawn on real-world examples—both positive and negative—to develop and illustrate their ideas. They also emphasize the “soft skills” that separate managers from true leaders.

New summary available for Mastering the World of Marketing

Marketing is changing, and many marketers feel overwhelmed with questions about how to respond to that change. At the same time, more information is available today about marketing than ever before. In Mastering the World of Marketing, Eric Taylor and David Riklan offer readers 50 individual articles on topics from social media to psychological triggers to networking. Each article is written by a different author who is an expert in a particular marketing topic or practice. The book’s purpose is to give readers ideas for marketing initiatives and act as a resource guide for marketers.

New Summary Available for Jumpstart Your Leadership

In Jumpstart Your Leadership, Shawn Doyle summarizes 10 key principles that will help current leaders become better leaders and help future leaders get a head start on techniques they will need to become great leaders. The principles, along with tips and techniques, are presented as “jolts” that can jumpstart efforts toward becoming authentic, motivating, and effective leaders. Leaders who apply the principles will see a striking change in results and become the boss on whose team everyone wants to be assigned.

New summary available for Sticking Points

For the first time in history, four generations (Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials) are working alongside one another, each completely different from the others. Each new generation brings about change, and if an organization wants to survive, it cannot fight that change. Instead, it must find ways of mixing the old with the new. Generational differences have the ability to tear teams apart, but in Sticking Points, Haydn Shaw provides a practical resource for working through these differences.

New Summary Available for Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution

Depending on who is talking, the cloud can be anything from a revolutionary technology that will forever transform the digital world to nothing more than a big batch of servers end users connect with over the Internet—in other words, nothing new or remarkable. While the debate over the value and viability of the cloud is ongoing, the migration to cloud computing is well underway. InManagement Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, author and technology expert Charles Babcock seeks to make sense out of the debate by explaining what the cloud is and is not, the opportunities it offers, and how businesses can maximize its value now and into the future. Babcock makes the case that regardless of a person’s opinion of the cloud, everyone can benefit from understanding more about what it is, what it can do, and how to leverage its capabilities. For businesses, developing a comprehensive cloud management strategy is a strategic imperative.

New Summary Available for Your Perfect Presentation

In Your Perfect Presentation, Bill Hoogterp conveys many important principles of public speaking, such as the importance of telling stories, the unique value of obtaining constant feedback, and the need for continual improvement. Focusing first and foremost on dramatically improving individual presentations, Hoogterp also applies the same principles and techniques to conducting meetings and conference calls, hosting and participating in panel discussions, giving motivational speeches, and developing and delivering effective elevator pitches.