Business Forecasting

A team of pioneering decision and AI strategists delivers a digestible and hands-on resource for professionals at every part of the decision-making journey. The book discusses the latest technology and approaches that bridge the gap between behavioral science, data science, and technological innovation. Discover how leaders from various industries and environments are using data and AI to make better future decisions, taking both human as well as business factors into account.

We are living in a world in which cows send texts to farmers when they're in heat, where the most valuable real estate in New York City houses computers, not people, and some of humanity's greatest works are created by crowds, not individuals. We are in the midst of a networking revolution - set to transform the way we access the world's information and the way we connect with one another. Studying biological systems is perhaps the best way to understand such networks, and nature has a lesson for us if we care to listen: Bigger is rarely better in the long run.

In the world of business, success is hard-earned and requires discipline, persistence, and a proven framework. That's where The 100 Rules of Business comes in. This comprehensive guide is grounded in rigorous actions that will help you build and grow a successful business in any niche. But the key to success is taking action. That's why these 100 rules are designed as actionable steps that you can follow in every stage of your business journey.

The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over four million copies globally and is in print in forty-six languages. But much of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's work on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages of Harvard Business Review. This book brings the best of those articles together all in one place.

In today's environment of partial attention and isolating remote work, few things are more satisfying than group experiences that produce powerful, meaningful connections and output. But this kind of enlivening, collective work doesn't happen by chance. It must be consciously designed and purposefully activated—in a team, an organization, and a culture. The good news is that making space for this kind of work doesn't have to be hard. There's a technique available to everyone, with no special certification required: gamestorming.

Piensa con anticipación. Elimina el ruido. Toma decisiones más inteligentes. Si alguna vez te ha costado mantener el enfoque o has reaccionado en lugar de planear, este libro es tu guía para afilar tu mente estratégica. Este libro es una guía rápida y práctica para ayudarte a desarrollar disciplina, eliminar distracciones y tomar decisiones intencionales en un mundo lleno de ruido. Inspirado en el contraste entre dos animales con estilos de pensamiento opuestos, ofrece herramientas para equilibrar una visión clara con una acción decidida—y avanzar con confianza hacia tus metas.

Running a small business is both exciting and challenging. While the rewards of entrepreneurship are great, the risks are equally significant. From financial instability and operational missteps to cybersecurity threats and reputational damage, small business owners must navigate a landscape filled with potential pitfalls. Without the right strategies in place, even a promising business can face unexpected setbacks. This book is designed to help you take control of the risks that threaten your business.

What enables great corporate leaders to detect signals that their industry, or perhaps the entire world, is about to change? How are they able to place their companies in a position to capitalize on that change? And how can you become one of those extraordinary people? It boils down to one word - vision. Leaders who lacked it have often guided their companies to obsolescence and failure. The rare leaders who cultivated a strong vision have disrupted industries, created new ones, and remade the world.

하버드는 지금까지 미국 대통령 6명, 노벨상 수상자 34명을 배출했으며 세계 정상급 문학가, 사상가, 학자들을 대거 양성했다. 실상 모든 분야의 최고봉에 하버드 출신이 있는 것이다. 말할 필요 없는 세계적인 기업가 빌게이츠, 마크 저커버그, JP 모건 체이스의 현 회장 제이미 다이언 역시 하버드를 거쳤다. '그렇다면 비즈니스 분야에서 하버드는 학생들에게 어떠한 정신과 이념을 전수할까?' 이 책은 바로 이 질문에 대한 대답이다. 그 실제 수업을 생동감 넘치는 글로 옮겨 하버드에 가지 않고도 수준 높은 강의를 듣는 것 같은 만족감을 얻을 수 있다.

Take control and transform your business. In "How to Get Your Business Flywheel Spinning", financial expert Eric Rigby reveals the repeatable process that has helped countless entrepreneurs achieve their ultimate vision, whether scaling or selling their business. Rigby's unique "flywheel" system will revolutionize how you run your company, empowering you to delegate responsibility to your team, boost profits, minimize taxes, and gain the freedom to focus on a big-picture strategy.

Ever wonder why you've had more strategy conversations than you can count, but not a single strategist discussion you can remember? That's because strategy has made a career out of ignoring the strategist—until now. Strategists First will help you learn what every strategist needs to know, including: who strategists are, what strategists believe, how strategists behave, where strategists thrive, when strategists strike, and why strategists matter.

Dreaming of a streamlined law practice that wins more clients and gives you your time back? This is your answer! Attorneys work some of the longest hours of any profession—especially if you run your own law firm. Whether you’re with a small team or going solo, chances are you’re on-call 24/7. You’re buried in day-to-day operations, legal work, and the emotional toll that comes with it—often at the expense of family life. You love your work and the difference you make. But what if you could regain balance and be fully present at work and at home?

For the past 10 years, Rohit Bhargava’s signature annual Non-Obvious Trend Report has helped over a million readers discover more than 100 trends changing our culture. Now for the first time, Rohit and his team of Non-Obvious trend curators reveal 10 revolutionary new megatrends that are transforming how we work, play, and live.

The tumultuous changes of the past decade, including China's economic rise and the financial meltdown, were just the beginning. The next cataclysmic wave is surging relentlessly ahead, demanding leaders who can steer their companies through complexity and change. Leadership 2030 uncovers six megatrends that will dramatically impact organizations' markets, cultures, systems, and processes.

In 1798, the influential cleric, scholar, and economist Thomas Malthus predicted that the world would soon run out of food, as linear food production growth would be unable to feed the exponentially growing population. Fast forward 200 years, and the world's population has grown almost 10 times, and we are closer to colonizing Mars than we ever will be of running out of food. The reason? Innovation. In From Malthus to Mars, Nicolai Chen Nielsen and Lars Tvede outline the wild future that we are speeding into.

Whether you're just starting to explore circularity, or you are already actively advancing a circular business agenda, this book caters to your unique journey. It introduces a set of circular business model patterns as a pathway to transformation and creating value in a circular economy. It offers over 100 real-world case studies of circular business model innovation to highlight emerging trends, new opportunities, and the pathway to sustainable change.

In What's Your Moonshot? trend and innovation strategist John Sanei explains how to ask the bigger, bolder, more courageous questions that will help you thrive - rather than merely survive - in our exponentially changing times. With a future-focused victor mindset, Sanei decodes the mega-trends that are reshaping human behavior and the way we do business - not to mention, the way we live our lives.

Pattern Breakers had its roots in the time when Mike Maples, a seasoned venture capitalist, was stumped, unable to get a grip on why some businesses he funded—Twitter, Twitch, and Okta, for example—took off, while others, some deemed “most likely to succeed,” shut their doors despite doing everything right. Was it dumb luck that separated gold from dross?

Jack is a stressed out CEO of a once great business, Stackflow. But after a pandemic, supply chain chaos, labor market fluctuations, and his own failed strategic initiatives, Jack is struggling to keep his head above water—and the company's. Like nearly every other CEO in history, Jack is working endless hours away from his family, who is quickly losing patience. During those long days, he's cobbling together ideas and goals—and still not seeing meaningful results.

In the long run, economies grow. Over the shorter-term business cycle, economic activity contracts and expands. From Main Street to Wall Street examines both the long-run relation between economic growth and stock returns and the shorter-term business-cycle relation. It examines the complex relationship between the economy and the stock market, and guides listeners through the fascinating interaction between economic activity and financial markets.