A carefully selected and targeted reading list to better family-owned business
Creating Magic:
10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney
A book by Lee Cockerell
HRB’s TAKE — Each chapter expounds on the Disney Formula for Success, which Cockerell sums up as “great leadership leads to employee excellence, which leads to customer satisfaction and strong business results.” Cockerell’s willingness to use his management gaffes as examples not only makes him a likeable narrator but also a credible leader, offering up a mesmerizing view of a career devoted to excellence in customer service, employee empowerment, organizational improvement and responsive leadership. Click here to see book on Amazon.com
Built to Last:
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
A book by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras
The premise of Built to Last is quite simple: there are characteristics that separate the top-performing companies in the world from the merely average ones. The book seeks to identify and study the characteristics of companies that are the “crown jewels” of their industries and the most admired companies out there-companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Procter & Gamble, 3M, American Express, Boeing, Ford, Merck, Nordstrom, Sony, Wal-Mart, and Walt Disney. The authors believe that “visionary companies” with certain characteristics are likely to be far more successful than their counterparts. Continue to read review by A. Harrison Barnes by clicking here for PDF. Or purchase the book on Amazon by clicking here.