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November 2 - November 23, 2015 4 Working World l WorkingWorld.com W ith help from getAbstract, the world's largest library of business book summaries, Working World takes a quick look at the TOP 5 Business Books. 1. MAKE IT MATTER To engage your employees, make their work meaningful. Today, with smaller budgets and bigger workloads handled by fewer people, companies in the United States expect their employees to do more with less. That may be why some 70% of American employees feel disengaged from their work. They show up for paychecks but feel scant personal incentive to excel. Whether their companies meet their goals matters little to them. So how do you engage workers under these troubling circumstances? Procter & Gamble senior executive Scott Mautz urges employers to make work meaningful, and he believes that engagement will follow. He details how to create a job environment filled with meaning and how it can inspire employees. Mautz offers many good ideas, though some inevitably verge on platitudes. Still, getAbstract recommends his useful book to CEOs, HR executives, entrepreneurs and managers. Scott Mautz | Copyright © 2015 AMACOM, a division of American Management Association 2015 | 256 pg. | ISBN: 9780814436172 2. LEADERS DON'T COMMAND Learn to evolve past your fight, flight or freeze response to become a worthy, collaborative leader. Leadership scholar and business expert Jorge Cuervo offers a complete package of ideas on how to engage and motivate teams to achieve maximum productivity. He explains why the brain's antiquated survival mechanisms, like the flight or fight response, and the business world's old management methods, like command and control, don't work for today's leaders or their followers. Cuervo first presented his concepts in Spanish, under the title Mejor liderar que mandar; now English-language readers can benefit from this intriguing translation. Cuervo packs a lot of information into his brief treatise. getAbstract recommends his insightful and practical manual to leaders and those who aspire to lead. Jorge Cuervo | ATD 2015 | 200 pg. | ISBN: 9781562869359 3. COMPASSIONATE CAREERS You can make a difference in the world and still get paid. Jeffrey W. Pryor and Alexandra Mitchell – job-placement professionals in the nonprofit world – discuss how to find a "compassionate career" working for a nonprofit or a "cause-driven" company. The US has an estimated 1.6 million tax- exempt nonprofit organizations that employ 13.7 million people. This equals roughly 10% of the nation's workforce. Despite these statistics, most people don't know they can earn a living while supporting causes that touch their hearts. This inspiring introduction to nonprofit careers profiles ordinary citizens as well as celebrities who found FEATURED ARTICLE by getAbstract Top Business Books