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*** For Immediate Release *** Soundview Executive Book Summaries - May 2008 This Month's Featured "Best Business Books" Summarized for You Concordville, PA Soundview Executive Book Summaries has chosen Crisis Leadership Now by Laurence Barton, Deciding Who Leads by Joseph Daniel McCool and Profit or Growth? by Bala Chakravarthy and Peter Lorange the "Best Business Books" for the month of May 2008. Soundview Editors have just released their summaries of these books which are only available direct from the publisher. width=110 align=left border=0> style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: #009530"> Crisis Leadership Now style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-STYLE: italic"> by Laurence Barton In Crisis Leadership Now, author Laurence Barton applies his corporate insider's insight to numerous case studies, demonstrating how catastrophes happen to real companies and real people every day. These studies form a framework for building crisis management thinking into your company's strategic toolbox. Anticipating all forms of trouble, advising senior management and boards of directors about potential events, and devising a business recovery plan will allow your organization to rebound should tragedy strike. width=110 align=right border=0> style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: #009530"> Deciding Who Leads style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-STYLE: italic"> by Joseph Daniel McCool Noted as a "recruiting expert" by Fast Company, McCool takes his reader inside the world of executive recruiters: the most influential and elite group of management consultants operating in business today. The author reveals how senior management recruiters influence everything from executive compensation, workplace diversity, business management, profits, culture and the definition of leadership itself. width=110 align=left border=0> style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: #009530"> Profit or Growth? style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-STYLE: italic"> by Bala Chakravarthy and Peter Lorange Chakravarthy and Lorange have teamed up to give readers proven strategies to protect and extend core businesses, capture new opportunities that seem to be distant, and then bridge those strategies with two others to move towards profitable diversification. The authors also provide real-world case studies from which the reader can learn how to execute these strategies to the fullest advantage — achieving growth and profitability. Subscribe to Soundview Executive Book Summaries and Receive 5 Free Summaries. Stay on top of the latest trends and strategies in just minutes. New summaries are released and delivered to you each month in a variety of formats, including audio versions in MP3 format -- listen anytime! This Month's Featured Summary Collection Do You Know Which Customers Are Worth Keeping? There's much more to customer loyalty than first meets the eye, and we all could use some help separating fact from fiction. Order Soundview's Keep the Customer Collection today and learn the facts from THE top experts on customer service and loyalty. Choose either print or online format of this 10-summary collection and receive titles such as How Customers Think by Gerald Zaltman, Customer Revolution by Patricia B. Seybold and Customer Winback by Jill Griffin and Michael W. Lowenstein. The online version is only $29.95 and the print version is $39.95. That's a small price to pay if you can retain even 5 percent more of your best customers. Order Now!

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Soundview Executive Book Summaries - December 2007

*** For Immediate Release *** Soundview Executive Book Summaries - December 2007 This Month's Featured "Best Business Books" Summarized for You Concordville, PA Soundview Executive Book Summaries has chosen Get There Early by Bob Johanson and Corporate Agility by Charles E. Grantham, James P. Ware and Cory Williamson the "Best Business Books" for the month of December 2007. Soundview Editors have just released their summaries of these books which are only available direct from the publisher. style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: #009530"> Get There Early style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-STYLE: italic">by Bob Johanson Very few leaders consult a crystal ball or a psychic when it comes to looking into the future with regards to their business; nonetheless, they are still responsible for understanding how the decisions they made yesterday will affect their organization five years from now. Johansen and the Institute for the Future provide their insights into the next decade, and show readers how they too can begin to navigate the road to the future. style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: #009530"> Corporate Agility style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-STYLE: italic"> by Charles E. Grantham, James P. Ware and Cory Williamson In order to compete in the flat world –– where the rules are constantly changing –– businesses must be willing to embrace a new strategic model. This model needs to allow for the understanding of the evolving work force, the inception of new technologies, and the re-examination of work place structure. Corporate Agility provides the blueprint for this revolutionary move forward. This Month's Featured Book Review & 'Speed Reviews' style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: #009530"> Microtrends style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-STYLE: italic"> by Mark J. Penn with E. Kinney Zalesne Join Penn for a fast-paced ride through more than 70 "microtrends" found in politics, family life, religion and leisure and how each one is impacting our lifestyles as well as our business world. style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: #009530"> December Speed Reviews As always, we also review a number of exciting new books in our companion publication, Speed Reviews. December's selection includes reviews of Know Can Do!, Get Ahead By Going Abroad and No Man's Land. This Month's Featured Product Soundview Holiday Gift Subscriptions (Half Off!) This year, skip the food, executive gadgets, and ho-hum holiday gifts, and give the people on your list a gift of value they'll appreciate all year long - a subscription to Soundview Executive Book Summaries. Each gift recipient will also receive a free multi-functional Hawk Card Book Light. Click to get more details about Soundview's Half Off Holiday Gift Special.

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