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Performance Management: Measure and Improve the Effectiveness of Your Employees Summary

The SQUEEZE: The competitive workplace today makes many demands upon both the manager and the employee. Employees are required to make significant improvements regarding their work performance. Managers are required to evaluate employee performanc...

You On a Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waste Management Summary

The SQUEEZE: Scientists are continuing to uncover medical evidence concerning the activity of dieting. Dieting is a struggle for many. Waist lines are continuing to increase. But there’s good news! Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz have unraveled...

Winning Summary

The SQUEEZE: Winning is everything. However, winning with a knowledgeable management style is gold. This is the sentiment of “Winning,” written by Jack Welch with Suzy Welch. In the book, Jack Welch examines his forty-year career at General Electr...

Bare-Knuckle Negotiation Summary

The SQUEEZE: Strategic negotiation is not for the faint at heart. Employing no-nonsense tactics and sometimes irrational behavior are keys to a negotiator preparing for battle. Raoul Felder explores the “always coming out on top” strategies specif...

Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People Summary

The SQUEEZE: Understanding the bargaining situation is all-important to gaining the advantage over a competitor. G. Richard Shell’s book titled “Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People” explores the subject of negoti...

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge Summary

The SQUEEZE: With the advent of new technologies, project management is increasing in its importance to business and software professionals. Because the use of technology is increasing, it is important to ensure that standards are consistent with ...

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Summary

The SQUEEZE: Economics, in general, is not a glamorous subject. Although Nobel Peace Prize winners are honored for their valuable contributions to the field, no one would be fascinated by the everyday application of economics. However, Steven D. L...

Leading Change, by John P. Kotter Summary

Summary of John Kotter's Leading Change - a book well known for providing leadership strategies of adaptation to change.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Summary

Summary of Patrick Lencioni's The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - a work long hailed as top business book of all time.

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

This book is a collection of interviews, so it’s impossible to summarize as one might with a “big idea book”, however, we’ll try and extract some of the best insight and anecdotes here.

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