Xtra: Bite Sized Book Summaries

Below you will find over 120 Book Summaries. These summaries distill full business-focused books to 12-15 minute reads by citing the key takeaways and most important concepts.

Click the catagory below to open up the collapsible group and select your summary by clicking the link.

Leading Self

Anticipate Failure
Atomic Habits
Compete With a Strategy
Connectable
Connection Culture
Contagious Culture
Courageous Culture
Create the Future
Creative Together
Decoding Greatness
Digital Body Language
Doesn’t Hurt to Ask
Empathy In Action
Extraordinary Influence
Fail More
F.I.R.E.
Free Time
Glow
Go Put Your Strengths To Work
How Did That Happen?
How to Cultivate Fresh Ideas to Feed Innovation
How to Say Anything to Anyone
How To Think Strategically
Impact Players
Impossible to Ignore
Mapping Meaningful Conversations
Master the Discipline of Listening
Master Your Motivation
Mean People Suck
Moxie
Multipliers
No More Excuses
Originals
Pitch Perfect
Power Listening
Powered by Storytelling
Rituals Roadmap
Running Lean
Ruthless Consistency
Simply Put
Smart Leaders Amplify the Smarts of Others
Sparked
Speak Easy: Connect with Every Conversation
Strategic Doing
Strategies for Innovating
Tell Me More About That
The Accidental Creative
The Authenticity Code
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
The Four Lenses of Innovation
The Good Ones: The Crucial Qualities of High Character Employees
The Inspiration Code
The Long Distance Teammate
The Motive
The Power of Reputation
The Responsibility Ethi
The Secret to Peak Productivit
The Story Factor
The Power of Habit
The Speed of Trust
Time Management Ninja
TouchPoints
Voice Power: Using Your Voice to Captivate, Persuade, & Command Attention
Why Accountability Counts
Who Moved My Cheese?
Yes, And…

Leading Others

A Manager’s Guide to Coaching
Accountability: The Key to Driving a High-Performance Culture
Amp It Up
Anticipate Failure
Ask More
Back to Human: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation
Best Practices Are Stupid
Beyond the Babble
Building Corporate Soul
Cascades: How to Create a Movement That Drives Transformational Change
Changing Altitude
Coaching A to Z
Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, & Reap Big Rewards
Connect First
Connectable
Connection Culture
Contagious Culture
Courageous Culture
Create the Future
Creative Together
Decoding Greatness
Deep Work
Digital Body Language
Divide or Conquer
Doesn’t Hurt to Ask
Empathy In Action
Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership
Great Business Teams
Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently
How Did That Happen?
How to be an Aware Leader
How to Cultivate Fresh Ideas to Feed Innovation
How to Say Anything to Anyone
How To Think Strategically
Impact Players
Impossible to Ignore
Impromptu: Leading in the Moment
Innovating Innovation
It’s Never JUST Business: It’s About People
Jumpstart Your Productivity
Lead Well
Leading at a Higher Level
Leading the Unleadable
Leading with GRIT
Leading Without Authority
Learn the Art of Storytelling
Making Conversations
Management Mess to Leadership Success
Mapping Meaningful Conversations
Master the Discipline of Listening
Master Your Motivation
Mean People Suck
Meetings That Get Results
Moxie
Multipliers
No More Excuses
Originals
Pitch Perfect
Power Listening
Powered by Storytelling
Propeller
Provoke
Reimaging Collaboration
Rituals Roadmap
Running Lean
Ruthless Consistency
Simply Put
Smart Leaders Amplify the Smarts of Others
Sparked
Speak Easy: Connect with Every Conversation
Strategic Doing
Strategies for Innovating
Successful Leaders Build Good Cultures
Swagger
Taking People with You
Tell Me More About That
The Accidental Creative
The Authenticity Code
The Coaching Manager
The Core Value Equation: A Framework to Drive Results, Create Limitless Scale, & Win the War for Talent
The Creativity Leap
The Fearless Organization
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
The Four Lenses of Innovation
The Good Ones: The Crucial Qualities of High Character Employees
The Inspiration Code
The Leadership Challenge
The Long Distance Teammate
The Motive
The New Leadership Literacy
The Performance Pipeline
The Power of Reputation
The Responsibility Ethic
The Secret to Peak Productivity
The Story Factor
The Truth About Leadership
The Power of Habit
The Speed of Trust
Time Management Ninja
TouchPoints
Transform Your Employees Into Experts
Voice Power: Using Your Voice to Captivate, Persuade, & Command Attention
Why Accountability Counts
Who Moved My Cheese?
Yes, And…

New People Leaders

A New Leader’s 100 Day Action Plan
Adored: The Leader Your Team Needs You to Be
Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For
Becoming the Boss
Critical Strategies for New Leaders: The First 90 Days
From Bud to Boss
The Speed of Trust
Yes, And…

Sales Enablement | Think Strategically & Drive Business Growth

Digital Body Language
Esther Perel Teaches Relational Intelligence [MasterClass]
Give & Take
Give to Grow
Listen to Sell
The Revenue Accelerator Framework
The Revenue Accelerator Playbook

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