Services to Alumni -- Business Book Reviews
Business Book Reviews
Goizueta alumni are now offered free access to 100 word summaries of many popular business books!
More detailed 4500 word PDF summaries are available -- for more information, contact Business Book Review about individual subscriptions.
Business Book Review offers summaries of over 700 business books, including many classics. Books reviewed include those from the 1990's to the present. Each book's most salient points are featured in chapter-by-chapter summaries. Eighteen business categories are covered, including business strategy, customer satisfaction, entrepreneurship, global business, innovation, IT, leadership, management, marketing, productivity, and social responsibility. A new review is added each week.
The most recent reviews are available for you to browse below. Previous books reviews are accessible in the Alumni Library Information conference on First Class.
I Didn’t See it Coming
The Only Book You’ll Ever Need to Avoid Being Blindsided in Business
By Nancy Widmann, Elaine Eisenman, Amy Dorn Kopelan
The organizational landscape has undergone so many transformations over the last decade that thousands of talented professionals who managed to thrive through all sorts of difficulty have suddenly found themselves the jobless victims of mergers, acquisitions, management turnovers, and company self-destructions. This is not, say the authors, because they were bad at their jobs. Many of these unfortunate souls were simply blindsided—knocked down by obstacles in their career paths most people neglect to acknowledge while engaged in their day-to-day work lives.
In I Didn’t See It Coming, Widmann, Eisenman, and Kopelan offer important help to business professionals interested in predicting, controlling, and working with changing and challenging organizational structures, colleagues, teams, and upper management. Complacency breeds shortsightedness, and the smart businessperson should be wary—but not to the point of paranoia. Anyone can see it coming by simply staying sharp, staying tuned, and staying vigilant to the environment.
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The Power of Body Language
How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter
By Tonya Reiman
Research in the fields of psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and sociology has found that as much as 93 percent of interpersonal communication is nonverbal, and these nonverbal signals are the most honest and reliable sources of communication. Nonetheless, many people have conditioned themselves not to listen and, as a result, they unintentionally send the wrong signals and end up turning people off or pushing them away.
The Power of Body Language explains the miracles of the brain’s natural communication system, providing principles and techniques for consciously reading nonverbal signals so as to know what others really think. It also illuminates how to control one’s own nonverbal signals and communicate only the messages one wants to send.
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The Power of Story
Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life
By Jim Loehr
In The Power of Story, Jim Loehr, the noted performance expert and sports psychologist, presents the idea that our lives unfold in accordance with the stories we tell ourselves and others. Telling ourselves stories helps us navigate through life, for they provide structure and direction. We automatically, and very often unconsciously, search for explanations for why things happen to us and why we behave as we do. Thus, stories create meaning; they provide a context for our experiences.
These stories may be positive or negative, of success or failure, or of power or victimization. We have stories about what we want and what we are capable of achieving. Yet, while our stories profoundly affect how others see us and how we see ourselves, few of us recognize that we are, in fact, telling stories, or, more significantly, that we can change our stories, and in turn, transform our lives.
