Business Survival Vol. II, Soundview Executive Book SummariesLearn vital survival principals essential for withstanding and successfully navigating all varieties of crises that effect business. This executive book summary is the second of four beneficial volumes packed with critical information, advice, and tactics from leading authors with a wide range of real-world experience to inspire and prepare your organization with the skills, attitudes, and strategies to confront issues and prepare for crises precipitated from internal and external circumstances. The Business Survival Vol. 2 executive summary provides important survey information, resources and insight into handling the every day hard decisions that executives are faced with, from dealing with reducing expenditures and implementing lay-offs, to successfully managing as a strong, yet respected leader.
Each Soundview Book Summary:
- 5,000 word summary of each title in text format.
- 20-minute audio summary of each title.
- Captures all of the key points of the original book.
A Soundview Summary covers the book's main points and highlights and gives you a working knowledge of its contents. A Summary isn't merely a digest or excerpts strung together. It's a seamless document that reads (and holds your interest) like a magazine article. Summaries not only save you time and money. They keep you abreast of the latest ideas and techniques, and they help you decide whether a book is worth reading in its entirety.
- 5,000 word summary of each title in text format.
- 20-minute audio summary of each title.
- Captures all of the key points of the original book.
- All titles have been chosen by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as among the best 30 books of the year in which they were published.
Featured Summaries in Business Survival Vol. 2:
Tough Management by Chuck Martin: Business strategist and CEO of NFI Research, Chuck Martin, offers a fresh, bottom-line approach to tackling shrinking budgets, smaller staffs, shorter deadlines, more demanding customers and an unrelenting call for innovation and growth. Based on more than two years of surveys of over 2,000 senior executives and managers, this summary provides a new perspective to being a leader in today’s high-pressure business world.
The Headcount Solution by N Fredric Crandall and Marc J. Wallace Jr.: Laying off employees seems inevitable when costs need to be dramatically reduced, however the authors present several comprehensive cost-cutting strategies that not only are effective, but are aimed at reducing the number of layoffs. Most importantly, this summary provides helpful guidelines and procedures for implementing a fair lay-off plan that respects employee’s dignity and hire-ability, while keeping key employees connected to the company.
The Change Monster by Jeanie Daniel Duck: Despite careful management of the operational aspects of corporate change, many managers and executives ignore the human element how changing a job description or corporate environment makes people feel. Respected consultant Jeanie Daniel Duck introduces a five-stage framework that helps managers and executives understand how to manage the human element of the change process.
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