We hope you get a lot of value out of the book summaries we post almost every week day. What you may not know is that they’re written by a dedicated team of volunteers who have a passion for knowledge and who like to pass on what they glean from the books they read so others’ can benefit, too. I wanted to take a moment to celebrate some recent milestones in our Actionable Book Club community.

For ardent business book lovers, the name Covey carries a lot of cachet. Stephen R. Covey was one of the world’s foremost leadership experts. He was named one of TIME’s 25 Most Influential Americans and his masterpiece, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold a staggering 20 million copies… so far. His son’s resume is equally impressive. Stephen M. R. Covey is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who has challenged our beliefs about […]

There’s a lot of satisfaction that comes with crossing another title off your summer reading list. All of that great new insight that you’ve gleaned; the pile on your bedside table that was precariously close to falling over getting shorter by the week. Wait, what? You haven’t created a summer reading list yet?! That’s okay. We may be in the dog days of summer, but there’s still plenty of time and it’s well worth doing. Here’s why…

It’s a mission of ours here at Actionable Books to bring business book lovers closer together. (Just think of us as a dating site for voracious business book aficionados without the, uh… dating.) That’s why we’re excited to announce the reintroduction of #BizBkChat. That’s right. We’ve dusted off the cobwebs, made a few tweaks and we’re ready to start discussing the latest books hot off the presses as well as all of your old favourites.

As a brand and communications executive, first with Weber Shandwick and then at her own consulting firm Brandthropologie, Billee Howard was well placed to see the shift in what she calls “me commerce” to “we commerce.” In her book “We-Commerce: How to Create, Collaborate, and Succeed in the Sharing Economy” she breaks this down for us into ten areas we can modify to take advantage of this shift. Billee sits down with us to answer a few of our burning questions.