This Month's Featured "Best Business Books" Summarized for You

Executives today face a crisis — a crisis of complexity. As you seek to expand profits, a number of new products, procedures and systems are created that, unexpectedly, stifle your bottom line. To this problem, Mariotti has the solution: simplify. In this far-reaching study, he shows corporate America that "keep it simple" is the way out of the Complexity Crisis.

The Perfect SalesForce
by Derek Gatehouse

Despite billions spent every year on personality profiling, sales training, motivation experts, coaches and incentives, there's never been a proven formula for building a sales force of top performers. Author Derek Gatehouse argues that sales is about people, not a process. The Perfect SalesForce is a return to people — different types of people who excel naturally in different types of sales jobs.

Intelligent M&A
by Scott Moeller and Chris Brady

Mergers and acquisitions have played a dominant role in shaping and reshaping the global corporate landscape in the last century. If the sheer numbers of deals aren't grabbing headlines, the size and scope of the deals that are made cannot help but command the attention of investors world over. In Intelligent M&A, Moeller and Brady set forth a solid strategy for thriving in the high-stakes, high-stress environment for corporate mergers and acquisitions.