This book provides summaries of works that have caught the attention of today's managers. Not sure if you want to read a book? Read the summary first and then you can decide!

This book provides a summary of five behaviors that sabotage the implementation of consultant recommedations. Looking to break out of this trap? Read Argyris' recommendation about facts, data, and relative power positions.

Want to read a seminal work on management? Pick this book for a review of management as a distinct function and management as a separate responsibility.

According to Deming, management style and governmental relations with industry must change.This book summarizes an innovative means of judging managers.

Need a primer on the emotional aspects of working in business? This book by Douglas McGregor presents and discusses two different theories of management.

Remember Maslow's hierarchy of needs? This book, originally a journal by Abraham H. Maslow, discusses issues such as how to encourage people to express their creativity, the importance of psychological health, and various leadership ideas.

Are software and IT crucial to the success of your business endeavors? Are you finding software is central to running your business effectively, and yet, you're lost in a wasteland of risk and non-value-added work? This book by Gary Gack, one of our IT experts, examines the root causes of software and IT failures and introduces a range of remedies in non-technical language.

Starting a new software development project? This book by Karl Wiegers provides experience-based guidance about how to get a software development project off to a strong start, as well as metrics and tools to help organize priorities, track progress, and plan assignments.

Need a software requirements engineering process that leads to fewer change orders, more satisfied customers, and lower development costs? This book delivers, providing information to guide readers through difficult requirements issues.

Need to manage a software requirement engineering project? This award-winning book by Karl Wiegers provides proven, real-world techniques and new topics, including use cases, up-to-date tools, more field examples, and a new troubleshooting guide.

Not sure of how to conduct peer reviews? This book by Karl Wiegers takes you through the peer review process and comprehensively covers formal and informal methods and techniques and their appropriate use under a variety of circumstances.

Not sure if you have a culture builder or a culture killer when it comes to your software development process? Karl Wiegers presents a comprehensive approach to improving quality and efffectiveness of software development.

This pocket guide provides every member of your project team with the tools and techniques to foster communication between business and technical teams on the necessary requirements for producing successful software.

Looking to run a collaborative workshop for gathering requirements? This book by Ellen Gottesdiener provides practical guidance and tips for collecting the necessary requirements.

Need to see a testing process in action? This book by Rex Black presents 12 testing processes critical to success followed by a case study demonstrating the use of the testing process.

Managing or participating in a testing project? This book by Rex Black walks you through the tools and resources you'll need to manage both large and small projects for hardware and software.

Looking to take the ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst exam? This book by Rex Black walks you through the syllabus and provides discussion of the related terminology, as well as sample exam questions.