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The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company Summary

The SQUEEZE: Leaders must face central issues, from managing access to capital and maintaining relationships with customers and suppliers to developing investment strategies to sustain long-term growth. Leaders must also face the challenge of reco...

The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse Summary

The SQUEEZE: Although Western life has improved over the past century, men and women today still feel unhappier than previous generations. Why is this feeling of discontent a prevailing problem in a culture that looks vastly different from its beg...

The Shape of Things to Come: Seven Imperatives for Winning in the New World of Business Summary

The SQUEEZE: The future of business will require companies to adopt strategies that will ensure their survival in a changing environment. Throughout history, there have been significant breakthroughs that changed the face of business. For example,...

The Time Trap: The Classic Book on Time Management Summary

The SQUEEZE: Managing day-to-day business and life responsibilities is becoming difficult in an age flooded with technology devices. Today, it is becoming equally harder to manage time and delegate priorities. Alec MacKenzie’s book titled “The Tim...

The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich are Rich, the Poor are Poor—and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car Summary

The SQUEEZE: Every day is filled with human interaction. This is life on a general scale. However, within a specific context, human interaction consists of negotiations between the rich and the poor, between companies and employees, and between bu...

The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy Summary

The SQUEEZE: American unilateralism encompasses a wide-range of approaches to political stability and economic supremacy. However, the new European Union poses a challenge to this goal. T. R. Reid’s book titled “The United States of Europe: The Ne...

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations Summary

The SQUEEZE: A growing sentiment is beginning to gain significant traction within the business and finance industries. The sentiment that more can be achieved with a larger group of people than with an elite few is an idea that is poised to predic...

Getting Started in Consulting Summary

The SQUEEZE: More people are beginning to take control of their own futures by leaving the stodgy corporate office and starting their own consultancy businesses. It is within this context that Alan Weiss discusses the growing field of consultancy ...

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown Summary

The SQUEEZE: In 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, Simon Johnson and James Kwak discuss the American banking industry and its resistance to regulation. The authors focus the narrative on six megabanks whose asset...

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Summary

The SQUEEZE: Transforming the way you work is important within a changing environment. Change involves recognizing new stresses, confronting confusing, and overcoming anxiety. Resolving these problems is one of many goals of organizational plannin...