New Business Book Summary Available for Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager

Many people who spend their days coordinating and managing projects have never had formal training in project management. In Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager, Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, and James Wood offer guidance to individuals lacking formal project training who are nevertheless responsible for leading projects. Using proven methods for initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing projects, unofficial project managers can find success at work and beyond.

New Business Book Summary Available for The Fate of Africa

In The Fate of Africa, historian and journalist Martin Meredith provides an in-depth examination of post-colonial Africa. Empowered by years of extensive research, Meredith breaks down the complex cultural, political, and geographic history of the continent into coherent, fascinating analyses. As a comprehensive guide to the second half of 20th-century African history, The Fate of Africa comprises in-depth accounts of the countries, events, and leaders of Africa's tumultuous journey out of colonialism and into the modern world.

New Business Book Summary Available for Leading Continuous Change

Perpetual innovation in technology and greater globalization are making the speed of change that organizations face unprecedented. Today’s leaders in business, government, and civil society cannot afford to avoid change, minimize its importance, or wish away the reality of churn in the workplace; they need a strategy to stop playing catch-up and get ahead. In Leading Continuous Change, Bill Pasmore gives leaders a four-part, nonlinear model for change management that is specifically designed for undertaking multiple change efforts simultaneously and adapting to a rush of changes as they occur. By updating their mind-sets and approaches, leaders can guide their organizations to greater agility, competitiveness, and success.

New Business Book Summary Available for The Wolf in CIO’s Clothing

As Tina Nunno explains in The Wolf in CIO’s Clothing, many CIOs turn to technology to creatively and strategically achieve a competitive advantage, and they want IT leaders who will lead aggressively to shape a new digital future. The goal of this book is to provide practical tools that allow CIOs to defend themselves, their teams, and their enterprises so they can create businesses of great value. To do so requires CIOs to be both thoughtful and scary, like wolves. By leveraging Machiavelli’s teachings, leaders’ inner wolves can be summoned to play, lead, and protect what is theirs.

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.