June 25, 2018: This Week's Best Business-Building Articles

June 25, 2018

This week, Ratchet+Wrench highlights how to get employees invested in your ideas for change, how to identify and tell your most powerful stories, and five leadership books to add to your summer reading list.

June 25, 2018—To better assist shop owners with their production management, marketing tactics and leadership styles, FenderBender has compiled a short list of essential business-building material from some of its favorite sources.

This is How to Turn Your Idea for Change into a Movement — Fast Company

To create real change in your company, take a lesson from social organizers.

4 Steps For A Better Return On Leadership Development Investment — Forbes

How can organizations improve culture, engagement and retention without well-trained and effective leaders at all levels? Here is an optimal approach to ensure the best possible return on investment that will actually improve efficiency, retention and profitability.

How to Identify and Tell Your Most Powerful Stories — Harvard Business Review

When Nancy Duarte's firm helps executives craft talks that will persuade and forge bonds with listeners, her firm often has to help them recall or dig up latent stories that come from a deep place of personal conviction. Over the years, her firm has used effective techniques for unearthing these personal stories—which can then be cataloged, added into communications, and effectively delivered. Here are some of the techniques Duarte's team relies on again and again.

Summer Reading List for Business Leaders — University of St. Thomas

Here are five must-have books aimed at improving your leadership skills.

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