Staff Recommendations

  • The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market

    By Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema

    Their plan is simple: put unmatched value (best product, best total solution, or best total cost) in the marketplace while meeting threshold standards in other dimensions of value. The authors follow up their theory with practical guidelines for constructing an appropriate operational model, and offer many examples using well-known companies. A landmark work in market strategy that applies to both private sector and government organizations.
    Recommended by Jon Hassinger, CI President

  • Freedom and Destiny

    By Rollo May

    Written by a psychiatrist, this book examines the challenges faced by our ability to make our own choices and the sense that our life has a particular meaning or destiny…something we were meant to achieve. If I have a destiny, do I really have freedom to choose? Balancing these two competing concepts is at the heart of a healthy emotional life. How do we find our destiny while maintaining our freedom?
    Recommended by John McCann, CI Director of Training

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