ExecSummaries™

ExecSummaries™
Quick insight into the thinking and best practices of today's thought leaders

Why ExecSummaries
The rapidly changing business climate requires executives stay current and informed on new ideas, technologies and trends. ExecSummaries offers high level, succinct overviews of today's leading business books that provide cutting edge ideas that are shaping today's business environment. Professionals can quickly grasp concepts so they can immediately incorporate the best thinking and practices into their initiatives.

What's in ExecSummaries?
ExecSummaries provides summaries of the most popular business books from today's foremost business authors. ExecSummaries expertly encapsulates the salient points and ideas of full-length books into digestible summarizations. ExecSummaries skillfully distills the essence of the author's work, conveying content, style and spirit. Designed for ease of use with short passages, bulleted lists and other useful elements, ExecSummaries titles are thorough, yet concise. ExecSummaries covers prevalent business themes including:

• Leadership
• Sales
• Marketing
• Economics
• Customer Service
• Strategic Management
• Hands-On Management
• Personnel and Human Resources
• Success and Career Techniques
• And much more

Some of the titles found in ExecSummaries includes:

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Winning: Everyone Wants to Win, Not Everyone Knows How
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Who contributes to ExecSummaries?
Soundview Executive Book Summaries®, the number-one name in high-quality business summaries, utilizes a rigorous selection process while working with the leading global book publishers to deliver summaries of the best, must-read business books. ExecSummaries includes the business books from the most respected authors including:

• Malcolm Gladwell
• Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
• Stephen R. Covey
• Jack Welch & Suzy Welch
• Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams
• Ken Blanchard
• Marshall Goldsmith
• Patrick Lencioni
• And many others.

Who uses ExecSummaries?
ExecSummaries is ideal for every corporate professional including:

• Managers, supervisors, team leaders, group leaders or functional specialists
• Marketing and sales personnel
• Training managers
• Business development executives
• CEOs, COOs, CTOs, CIOs

How ExecSummaries supports professionals with critical business initiatives
With ExecSummaries, professionals can quickly and easily gain insight into the best thinking and practices in business today. They can:

• Find out about action coaching and how it can provide motivation for change
• Learn the new rules of marketing
• Understand how the knowledge economy is creating a weightless society
• Discover the comprehensive eleven-step process for transforming brand into a valuable asset
• Read about the secrets of business longevity
• Learn about the most important leader function
• Find how to develop a business model that creates and captures profits in new ways
• Learn strategies and ideas leaders use to make their organizations great
• Broaden your global success with the toolkit of the 12 global people skills
• Stay abreast of the evolving role of the customer in the value creation process

Delivery options that address the needs of busy professionals
The Books24x7 On Demand Platform supports a busy professional's preferred method for consuming information by providing the content online, in downloadable text format, and MP3 audio - all easily accessible from a PC or mobile device.