Business Strategy

Heiress to the nearly 40-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the 14th wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At 94, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city - and involving the most glamorous industry - in the world.

Edwin Lefevre was a stockbroker and an independent investor, as well as a novelist and writer of short stories. This lightly fictionalized account of the career of stock speculator Jesse Livermore was first published in 1923. Now, nearly 100 years later, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator remains highly recommended for an understanding of investment. Lefevre’s trading advice and analyses of market price movements are as relevant today as in 1923.

Business relationships are still dominated by a narrow perspective—trying to match products to customer needs and making deals. It's a buyer-seller relationship built on a transactional mindset, and it's not how you should be doing business. There's a better way—orchestrating growth—in which suppliers and customers collaborate to build strategies and grow together. Christoph Senn and Mehak Gandhi lay out the Triple Fit Strategy framework, which will help you escape the product-centric mindset and put customers at the heart of your business strategy.

Do you want to start an online business with massive growth potential and little upfront cost in 2024? Look no further! Print-on-demand business model is a top choice! Imagine starting a global e-commerce business with minimal investment yet unlimited potential. No huge upfront costs, no inventory dramas, and no overstock nightmares! Gone are the days of needing to create an intricate supply chain, handle the production of your merchandise, or even worry about shipping your products out.

What does it take to get the job done? How do you get the men in your unit to do what you say? To follow you into battle and shoot to kill? How do you build the confidence that spurs men on to do their jobs, to stand by their leaders and each other? Find the answers to these questions and more, in this classic for those who have to get the job done---military or not.

Your company needs a strategy for artificial intelligence (AI). AI is transforming how we work, how we travel, and how we spend our free time. Now, it’s poised to do the same in the pharmaceutical industry. Do you have a strategy to lead this transformation? Build Better AI synthesizes years of real world experience into a succinct strategic roadmap that describes the fundamental components of AI strategy in the pharmaceutical industry. This focused guide will give you the recipe you need to kickstart a comprehensive AI plan of action including forming your executive working group, hiring...

Introducing Your Ultimate Handbook to Start and Grow Your Pressure Cleaning and Sealing Business. Are you tired of the daily grind of working for someone else? Do you have the drive and determination to be your own boss and build a successful business? If so, then this book is your roadmap to starting a lucrative Pressure Cleaning and Sealing business. In this comprehensive guide, you will learn everything you need to know to build a strong foundation for your business and take it to the next level. The book covers topics like finding your niche, understanding the industry, and creating a ...

Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business-one that is still thriving-while dramatically reinventing it?

POET is also available as a POET+PEAF Box Set. (ISBN: 978-1-908424-28-0) PEAF (ISBN:978-1-908424-10-5) inherits and builds on POET (ISBN:978-1-908424-07-5). Therefore reading and understanding PEAF requires that you have previously read and understood POET. "The only constant is change!" has been the battle cry for many years but just being able to deal with change is no longer enough. The new battle cry is "The only constant is the acceleration of change!". How an Enterprise effects the whole of Transformation is becoming a Strategic Strength or a Strategic Weakness, where massive business...

Responsible AI Strategy Beyond Fear and Hype - 2025 Edition. Finalist for the 2023 HARVEY CHUTE Book Awards recognizing emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction. In this comprehensive guide, business leaders will gain a nuanced understanding of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. The book covers the rapid progress of LLMs, explains technical concepts in non-technical terms, provides business use cases, offers implementation strategies, explores impacts on the workforce, and discusses ethical considerations. Key topics include: The...

Instagram is extremely unique in so many ways and is the combination of almost all the social media sites available and then some. Photos, videos, music, color, trends, tags, stories and messages: it’s all there. It has the potential to support many brands and business types around the world. The continued growth does not show any indication that it will end any time soon. It’s time for you to join in the fun and get your slice of the pie. With 1 billion users, it’s big world to take advantage of! Use the tools, visit the websites and apps, and explore the world of Instagram for ...

Michael Porter’s succinct summary of his landmark book Strategy, considered the best book on strategy of all time.

Are you tired of slogging through your 9-to-5 job and are looking for a better, more lucrative source of income? You’re about to discover powerful insight into the CDL business that has been buried deep within the hearts of the millionaire truck drivers. Truckers are the lifeline of any country. Food, fuel, fashion – you name it! Everything depends on the trucking industry to move cargo from point A to point B. The CDL business is one of the biggest cash cows in the world, eyeing a market worth of over $730 billion in the U.S. alone.

Red teaming. It is a practice as old as the Devil's Advocate, the 11th-century Vatican official charged with discrediting candidates for sainthood. Today, red teams - comprised primarily of fearless skeptics and those assuming the role of saboteurs who seek to better understand the interests, intentions, and capabilities of institutions or potential competitors - are used widely in both the public and private sector.

Leadership is a lifestyle, not a vocation. The Process creates emotionally intelligent leadership starting in your relationships and extending into your business and your entire life. This book summarizes the process. It contains probing and powerful questions at the end of each chapter, questions designed to help you discover your own way forward. Whether you are struggling as an individual, in a relationship, or married, the process will point you in the direction of seeking and receiving help as a lifestyle, not as a solution to a problem.

In a world driven by connection, trust, and digital presence, “Influencer Playbook” explores one of the most transformative shifts in the modern marketing landscape. This comprehensive and insightful guide is a must-read for entrepreneurs, marketers, and anyone seeking to understand the true power of influence in today’s fast-paced digital world. Over the past decade, marketing has evolved from glossy celebrity endorsements to authentic storytelling powered by relatable voices — everyday individuals turned influencers, whose opinions now hold more weight than multimillion-dollar ad ...

PF2 is also available as a PF2+POET+PEAF Box Set. (ISBN: 978-1-908424-45-7)This book introduces the Pragmatic Family of Frameworks. A collection of Pragmatic Ontologies and Frameworks to enable Enterprises to more effectively structure themselves.It defines the fundamentals that all other ontologies and frameworks in the family are based on.

En este libro, un auténtico best seller mundial, Richard P. Rumelt muestra cómo acabar con la palabrería fácil y los objetivos a medias de las «malas estrategias». Nos proporciona un método claro y sumamente eficaz para alcanzar el objetivo clave de cualquier liderazgo: concebir y ejecutar una estrategia de éxito en el mundo real.

Sigue a Kasumi, quien toma el control de las operaciones de la empresa de confitería de su padre. Con ayuda de su mentor y gerente de planeación de negocios, Takeda, formula un plan viable para cambiar el rumbo del negocio, construir confianza entre los actores clave de su empresa y convencer con éxito al CEO para que implemente el plan en toda la compañía. En este libro aprenderás importantes herramientas de análisis de negocios, como FODA y evaluación estratégica, y la manera de aplicarlas en cualquier situación empresarial real.

Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer, bestselling author, and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke shares his fascination with weeds and how anyone can grow their business into something resilient and unstoppable. How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed applies a model to business growth, examining the successful strategies that ordinary weeds use to spread, and prosper in almost any situation.