Business Strategy

Visionaries like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have demonstrated the power of reimagining what's possible. Now, this transformative new guide taps into the mindsets and strategies of today's boldest innovators - showing you how to challenge assumptions, unlock creative breakthroughs, and execute world-changing visions.

Write a foolproof business plan that will set your budding business on the road to success from the get-go. When you set out on a road trip, do you leave the map behind? Do you decide to just wing it and see where you end up? You can use Writing a Business Plan Made Simple for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs as your guide. With a comprehensive breakdown of everything you need in a stellar business plan, this audiobook is your one-stop guide whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur or experienced business owner.

It's no secret that culture is the key to attracting and engaging top talent and seizing the competitive edge. But the vast majority of culture efforts fail as quickly as they started. Why? Because leaders are missing the big picture. They're creating and communicating values but failing to ensure the values are tied to the purpose and the strategy of the company while also being integrated into processes, operations, and behaviors.

In the competitive high-stakes game of big business, it is no secret that companies work the legislative and legal systems to gain advantage in the marketplace. It's called competitive legal strategy, by which some companies make the rules and others are forced to operate within restrictive boundaries that add cost and inconvenience to entering a given market. Rather than pass judgment on these tactics, Shell exposes these realities in order to give business owners and managers the legal knowledge to make better, more profitable strategic decisions. Citing numerous real-world cases, he ...

Create a winning game plan for your digital products with Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age. Using a wide range of proven techniques and tools, author Roman Pichler explains how to create effective strategies and actionable roadmaps to help you maximize your chances of creating successful products. Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style, Strategize offers practical advice and valuable examples so that you can apply the practices directly to your products.

#1 NEW RELEASE ON AMAZON in Green Business, Comparative Economics and Sustainable Development. How to Build Sustainability into Your Business Strategy is not just another book about why sustainability matters it’s a step-by-step guide for business leaders to make sustainability a core business strategy. Written by sustainability expert Lee Stewart, this practical guide distills over two decades of real-world experience into actionable strategies that businesses of all sizes from solo entrepreneurs to global corporations can use to build resilience and unlock new opportunities. Stewart’s...

The most common complaint Bill Stinnett hears from his corporate clients is that would-be vendors and suppliers "just don't understand our business." In Think Like Your Customer, Stinnett explains why the key to landing corporate customers is to learn to think about the things executives and business owners think about and understand how they make complex buying decisions.

First There Was the CSC One dreary Monday morning I arrived at work and found a Dilbert cartoon clipped from that morning’s paper and taped to my office door. As I stood and read it, I saw the handwritten abbreviation “CSC” and a roughly drawn rain cloud added to the third frame of the cartoon. I quickly read the captions, and chuckling at the humor, I knew immediately who had left the comic on my door. It was my friend and colleague Tom Frank. I also knew both what the CSC inscription meant and why he had made the connection with the cartoon. It was as though Scott Adams had been in ...

Is your healthcare organization spending too much time on strategy—with too little to show for it? If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones for healthcare professionals to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.

Are you a small or medium-sized business owner, executive, or entrepreneur ready to take your company to the next level? Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) might seem like a strategy reserved for large corporations, but in reality, they offer transformative growth opportunities for businesses of all sizes. In M&A for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Michael Hofer, Ph.D., an expert with years of M&A experience, unveils the secrets of harnessing M&A to accelerate growth, expand into new markets, gain valuable expertise, and secure a stronger competitive position—all tailored to the unique ...

Unlock Your Royal Code and Be the Queen You Were Meant to Be! In my early walk with God, I discovered the book of Esther in the Bible and it was life changing. We meet this young girl who was orphaned and becomes a powerful leader that would change how the world looks at women. Women, then and now, are given certain roles that people feel women should do and they should stay within those roles. Yes, the Bible states that we are the helpmate, but God used Esther, Deborah, Sarah, Mary, and many other women in the Bible to do extraordinary things in the world as leaders. It’s so important ...

Disruptive Strategies for 7-Figure Growth Quiet power. Strategic scale. Legacy that lasts. Not all growth is created equal. If you’re a high-performing entrepreneur, coach, or executive who’s hit a revenue ceiling—but not your potential—this book is your roadmap to seven-figure success without burnout or compromise. Disruptive Strategies for 7-Figure Growth reveals what truly drives scalable, sustainable business expansion: not more hustle, but deeper alignment. Through real-world case studies, bold frameworks, and powerful Quiet Invitations, Book Creation Strategist Candace ...

Struggling to make sense of financial statements? Feeling overwhelmed by the numbers and unsure how to gauge the health of your business? Financial Statements ASAP is your roadmap to financial clarity. With renowned finance expert John Cousins as your guide, you'll learn to decipher balance sheets and income statements with confidence. Through relatable examples and straightforward explanations, Cousins breaks down complex financial concepts—empowering entrepreneurs, managers, and investors alike with practical tools to both measure the performance of a business, and make sound decisions....

Opportunities to take a regional business into the global market make it possible to strategically, smartly, and profitably accomplish more than you can by staying local. To prepare, you need to set your business up for success by being open to learning, to applying new ideas, and to continually reviewing how you can create success in the global market. Topics such as trade financing, regulatory considerations, international business planning, sustainability, and much more are are areas that you need to become familiar with. The mindfeed addition is well suited for small and medium sized ...

What happens when the art of storytelling meets the speed of machines? In The AI Effect: How Artificial Intelligence Is Rewriting the Rules of Public Relations, Nick Leighton – communications strategist, agency founder, and global advisor, delivers a playbook for the future of public relations in a world powered by artificial intelligence. With wit, clarity, and a sense of urgency, Leighton challenges PR professionals to stop reacting to disruption and start designing within it. AI isn’t coming, it’s already here. It can write press releases, analyze sentiment, even mimic tone. But ...

You are a Unicorn. You are inspiring, innovative, and powerful—and your idea has the potential to be the next big thing. But whether it's a product, a service, or a brilliant upgrade that your company could make, you need the right team to make it happen. Renowned brand strategist and entrepreneur Jen Kem will show you how to identify your Unicorn Leadership Type so that you can build and lead the most collaborative, harmonious, and motivated team of Unicorns to achieve extraordinary results.

The Real Business of Blockchain is one of the first audiobooks on this transformative technology written for business leaders. Authors David Furlonger and Christophe Uzureau - both of Gartner, the world-renowned research and advisory company - will help you: assess how blockchain will impact your business by cutting through the hype and finding the real story; explore the value proposition that blockchain technologies offer; make smart near- and mid-term investments in your blockchain strategy; and position you and your organization in a new competitive landscape in the future.

Make this the year you launch and build a serious apparel (t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, and more) business online! Here is an Amazon Merch book that shows how we consistently make four figures monthly selling t-shirts and more online with our family-run media company. Intended for current e-commerce online sellers, I've kept the cost of this ebook so low you can recoup your cost with one or two shirt sales from the actionable ideas in this book. Beyond this book, we're not selling anything else: No courses, no upsells, just this useful book and the ideas about what we're doing with our t...

More than 20 years ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the balanced scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management system that put the balanced scorecard into action.

Leadership is all about others - inspiring them to believe, then enabling that belief to become reality. That's the essence of Leadership U: it starts with U but it's not about U. Those timeless words are timelier than ever today, as leaders look to accelerate through the crisis curve. As author Gary Burnison observes, "There will likely be more change in the next two years than we have seen in the last 20." Now, in Leadership U, Burnison lays out a framework - his Six Degrees of Leadership - to show leaders how to create change.