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.

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• A Manager’s Guide to Coaching

• A New Leader’s 100 Day Action Plan

• Accountability: The Key to Driving a High-Performance Culture

• Adored: The Leader Your Team Needs You to Be

• Ally Up: The Definitive Guide to Building More Inclusive, , Innovative, & Productive Teams

• Amp It Up

• Anticipate Failure

• Ask More

• Atomic Habits

• Back to Human: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation

• Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For

• Becoming the Boss

• Best Practices Are Stupid

• Beyond Diversity

• 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

• Compete With a Strategy

• Connect First

• Connectable

• Connection Culture

• Contagious Culture

• Courageous Culture

• Create the Future

• Creative Together

• Critical Strategies for New Leaders: The First 90 Days

• Decoding Greatness

• Deep Work

• Digital Body Language

• Divide or Conquer

• Doesn’t Hurt to Ask

• Empathy In Action

• Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership

• Extraordinary Influence

• Fail More

• F.I.R.E.

• Free Time

• From Bud to Boss

• Glow

• Go Put Your Strengths To Work

• 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…