Business Transformation | 05.22.24
BISA’s 2024 Summer Reading List
by: BISA Staff
Do you have a book selected for your Memorial Day weekend? BISA has you covered with these eight options spanning leadership, DE&I, staff retention, social media marketing and more. With one of these reads by your side, your holiday and summer travels will keep you both informed and occupied during those long days by the lake.
Business Transformation
Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World
By Ginni Rometty
Ginni Rometty led one of the world's most iconic companies, and in Good Power she recounts her groundbreaking path from a challenging childhood to becoming the CEO of IBM and one of the world's most influential business leaders. With candor and depth, Rometty shares milestones from her life and career while redefining power as a way to drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few--a concept she calls "good power."
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Great Things
By Adam Grant
We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door.
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Staffing and Culture
The Retention Revolution: 7 Surprising (and Very Human!) Ways to Keep Employees Connected to Your Company
By Erica Keswin
People are quitting their jobs in droves, then coming back. Employees are demanding flexibility, while some leaders insist they return to the physical office. Remote work is incredibly convenient but complicated. The job market is always in flux, but one thing is for sure: the last few years have presented the greatest challenges the business world has ever faced. Don't freak out. If you accept the new reality and harness the incredible power of healthy, authentic relationships, you can seize the competitive edge in this new world of work.
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Culture Is the Way: How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence
By Matt Mayberry
In Culture Is the Way: How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence, former NFL Pro, world-renowned keynote speaker, and management consultant Matt Mayberry delivers an incisive and hands-on blueprint to employee engagement and peak productivity. In the book, you'll explore how leaders, at every level, can build a workplace culture that drives organizational excellence and unleashes the full potential of every employee.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
There's Nothing Micro about a Billion Women: Making Finance Work for Women
By Mary Ellen Iskenderian
Nearly one billion women have been completely excluded from the formal financial system. Without even a bank account in their own names, they lack the basic services that most of us take for granted--secure ways to save money, pay bills, and get credit. Exclusion from the formal financial system means they are economic outsiders, unable to benefit from, or contribute to, economic growth. Microfinance has been hailed as an economic lifeline for women in developing countries--but, as Mary Ellen Iskenderian shows in this book, it takes more than microloans to empower women and promote sustainable, inclusive economic growth.
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Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will To Change
By Jennifer Brown
In the rapidly changing business landscape, harnessing the power of diversity and inclusion is essential for the very viability and sustainability of every organization. Talent who feel fully welcomed, valued, respected, and heard by their colleagues and their organizations will fuel this growth. We will only succeed in this transformation if those in leadership pivot from command and control management styles to reinvent how we look at people, every organization's greatest asset. It's also critical that we build systems that embrace diversity in all its forms, from identity and background to diversity of thought, style, approach, and experience, tying it directly to the bottom line.
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Sales and Marketing
Social Media Recruitment: How to Successfully Integrate Social Media Into Recruitment Strategy
By Andy Headworth
As the recruiting landscape changes, different methods are needed to attract talent, and social media is a key channel. However, many HR and recruiting professionals are not equipped with the knowledge and understanding to create a social media recruiting strategy. “Social Media Recruitment” combines practical guidance with case studies and insights from industry thought leaders to provide a full understanding of what social media means for HR and recruitment and how to successfully integrate and use it.
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The Revenue Acceleration Framework: A Proven Roadmap to Transform and Dynamically Grow Your Business
By Doug Davidoff
You can't afford to keep taking big risks with uninspiring results. This book is for every leader who knows the frustration of spearheading a critical new initiative for exponential growth, only to watch it perform far short of its potential.
The Revenue Acceleration Framework bridges the gap between expectations and execution. Doug Davidoff shines a light on organizational shortcomings that others miss. His no-holds-barred approach to organizational change, combined with his unparalleled understanding of sales, as well as marketing theory and strategies, will help you steer your company to monumental growth.
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