Business Strategy

Richard H. Lawrence, Jr. founded Overlook Investments in Hong Kong in 1991. Since inception, Overlook has grown at 14.3% per year for three decades a remarkable record of growth that is testament to a consistent ability to find and invest in Asia's best companies. This raises two important questions: How did Overlook achieve its success; and how can Overlook best ensure future success? Now, in a level of detail never before disclosed, Richard and the Overlook executive team turn the lens inward to analyze The Overlook Model.

In the military, a field manual provides instructions in simple, clear, step-by-step language to help soldiers complete their mission. In the civilian sector, books offer information on everything from fixing a leaky tap to developing an effective workout programme to cooking a good steak. Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual is here to help you navigate your way through the difficulties of leadership by providing a direct, situational, pragmatic how-to guide that anyone can instantly put to use.

This guide will walk you step by step through all the essential phases of developing a results driven marketing plan. The marketing plan is a problem-solving document. Skilled problem solvers recognize that a big problem is usually the combination of several smaller problems. The best approach is to solve each of the smaller problems first, thereby dividing the big problem into manageable pieces. Your marketing plan should take the same approach. It should be a guide on which to base decisions and should ensure that everyone in your organization is working together to achieve the same goals...

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 book goes beyond theory, offering a roadmap rooted in today’s business realities. ...

Streaming Systems Book 2 Knowing how much Twitch streamers make and how much money they bring in is crucial for anyone who wants to become a streamer. Understanding how much Twitch broadcasters make each subscriber, per viewer, and per ad will help you monetize your channel and make a livelihood. Take your entertainment to the next level and experience the games you love like never before! The only guide that helps you if are new to streaming with advice on how to launch and build a Twitch channel. You learn the basics of starting a channel, streaming games or live events, growing and ...

Extrayendo de los libros exitosos de John Maxwell, Liderazgo REAL explora principios eternos en el estilo único del doctor Maxwell. De manera concisa y directa, Maxwell se enfoca en las cualidades esenciales, necesarias y ya comprobadas de un verdadero liderazgo: influencia, integridad, actitud, visión, resolución de problemas, relaciones, desarrollo de equipos y auto disciplina. Esta serie en formato de audio, guía a los lectores a través de pasos prácticos para desarrollar el verdadero liderazgo en sus vidas y en las vidas de los demás.

In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student - and how he went on to found and run Mint Investment Management Company, one of the most profitable and largest quantitative hedge funds in the world.

This book is for first-time startup founders in the B2B space. Maybe you’re a software engineer, product manager, salesperson, doctor, or lawyer building your first startup. My bet is that although you’re an expert at your technical skill, you yourself recognize that there’s a lot to learn when it comes to building a product, marketing it to a specific audience and overall running a company.

Unlock the full potential of your organization with "ORDER IN CHAOS: Objectives and Key Results (OKR)." This comprehensive guidebook takes you through the ins and outs of implementing OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), a powerful goal-setting framework that has been used by some of the world's most successful companies. Learn how to align your team's efforts and measure progress toward achieving your organization's most important goals. From crafting effective objectives to tracking progress and holding team members accountable, this book provides a step-by-step guide to implementing OKRs ...

Pricing mastery made easy. A must-listen for entrepreneurs seeking to determine what their customers value and set prices they want by understanding the truth about pricing—it isn't about the price. Everything that happens before the price matters much more than the price itself. Have happier clients, boost your profits, and confidently master the pricing game with this comprehensive guide.

Small businesses often fail because owners are unaware of the many elements that can prevent the business from growing and being successful. Often, small businesses are organized around the manager's specific area of expertise, such as marketing, accounting or production. This specialized expertise often prevents the busi¬ness owner from recognizing problems that may arise in other parts of the business. This guide will provide you, the small busi¬ness entrepreneur, with the essentials for conducting a comprehensive search for existing or potential problems in your planning activities. ...

In The Innovator's Solution, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expand on the idea of disruption, explaining how companies can and should become disruptors themselves. Now with a foreword by innovation expert Scott Anthony, this classic work shows just how timely and relevant these ideas continue to be in today's hyper-accelerated business environment and will help anyone trying to transform their business right now.

This audiobook will make you better by teaching you how to overcome three neurological traps that block successful people, like you, from realizing your full potential. Then, it will make you faster by teaching you six patterns of opportunity - convergence, divergence, cyclicality, redirection, reduction, and acceleration. Each pattern you'll learn is a repeatable shortcut that has created fortunes for ex-criminals, reclusive billionaires, disruptive CEOs, and ordinary people who unexpectedly made it big.

Based on extensive primary research conducted over more than fifteen years, this book documents the differential contribution of HP's successive CEOs in sustaining the company's integral process of becoming. It uses a comprehensive strategic leadership framework to examine and explain the role of the CEO: (1) defining and executing the key tasks of strategic leadership, and (2) developing four key elements of the company's strategic leadership capability.

The HBR Guide to Leading Through Change provides the practical tips, research, stories, and advice you need to understand, communicate, and implement change effectively, no matter the size or scale of the challenge you're facing. You'll learn how to improve your odds of success; communicate a shared vision; keep going, even amid lags and setbacks; deal with naysayers and roadblocks; build trust and resilience on your team; and make a lasting impact.

2025 Edition! This practical and concise guide provides senior decision-makers with a clear, accessible roadmap for harnessing the power of generative AI, enhancing innovation, and boosting business outcomes. Drawing on insights from AI-enabled business transformations in diverse sectors, it presents a validated strategic approach. This blueprint not only outlines best practices but also showcases pioneering use cases, integrating them into a cohesive framework for practical business transformation. This scenario-based approach helps leaders understand where and how to apply the practices ...

Machiavellians may not get to heaven, but on earth they have a definite edge on the competition. In this pithy and discretely vicious guide, Stanley Bing shows how the Florentine master statesman and political thinker would handle today's myriad corporate challenges, seize the future by the throat, and make it cough up money, power, and superior office space. So, what exactly would Machiavelli do?

Are you encountering resistance when trying to identify and recruit extraordinary but elusive, passive candidates that your competitors ultimately attract? Do your executive searches close with marginal candidates? It's time to transform your approach and results with a proven action plan. In the richly rewarding executive search business, it's not just about filling vacant positions but finding the perfect match between executive and company.

In order to cash in on e-commerce as fast as possible you need to do what practically almost nobody is telling you to do. You need to offer your products in a funnel. In our busy crazy online world you only have a few minutes to get someone’s attention. If a person hits an amazon like storefront they are going to browse. This might seem like a good thing but before a purchase it’s bad. People look around get lost and confused and leave your site. The funnel eliminates this as a problem and gives the customer only one thing to focus on, do I buy the thing I clicked on and am interested ...

From technology, media, and retail to sport teams, government agencies, and financial institutions, learn the actual strategies and processes being used to learn about customers, improve manufacturing, spur innovation, improve safety, and so much more. Organized for easy dip-in navigation, each chapter follows the same structure to give you the information you need quickly. For each company profiled, learn what data was used, what problem it solved, and the processes put in place to make it practical, as well as the technical details, challenges, and lessons learned from each unique scenario.