Category: Book Summaries

e she stumbles upon the inspiring management secrets of The Pike Place Fish Market. This effective little tale introduces readers to "Fish!" - the authors’ prescription for boosting employee morale and productivity. The fish-tossing, joke-cracking camaraderie of the market serves as the workplace ideal in this book, which is easy to read but carries a lasting punch WE recommendmthis book to executives, change agents, managers, staff members, and students. Whether you are trapped in a bad working environment or trying to improve a mediocre one, this book will inspire you to get up and change your surroundings. Fish! will be one of the most influential books you read all year.

Leaders Eat Last Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t Simon Sinek | Portfolio, 2014 Review In this bestseller, Simon Sinek “challenges assumptions” about how and why people seek and accept inspiration from significant leaders and organizations. In researching...

In this inspiring and useful text, vulnerability researcher and TED superstar Brené Brown supplements her New York Times bestsellers, Daring Greatly and Rising Strong, with new research, personal experiences, case studies and data from interviews with top leaders

Brown understands that not belonging is painful, particularly when people feel that they don’t belong to their own families, “the most primal and important of all of our social groups.” Children who sense they don’t belong create lonely internal narratives in which they are unworthy of love and inclusion. Seemingly small events take on massive importance in a person’s life. Trivializing your own pain by dismissing such injuries makes you less capable of empathizing with other people. 

There are very few leaders, products, or companies that create movements. Very few leaders that inspire loyalty, not just a single transaction. Very few leaders that motivate their followers and employees to stick with them through thick or thin.