Business Strategy

The original edition of Discipline Without Punishment introduced a positive approach for getting problem employees to meet - and often even exceed - job requirements. The book still delivers on that promise, and in this revised edition, Dick Grote provides new insights, along with sample dialogues, memos, and worksheets.

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.

These days, consumers have real power: they can research companies, compare ratings, and find alternatives with a simple tap. Focusing on customer needs isn't a nice-to-have, it's a strategic imperative. The Jobs To Be Done Playbook (JTBD) helps organizations turn market insight into action. This book shows you techniques to make offerings people want, as well as make people want your offering.

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.

Whether it shows up as stress, top-down leadership styles, drama, or uncertainty, fear kills good decision-making, dampens morale, lowers employee engagement, and hurts bottom-line growth. The good news is that there's an antidote: Freedom at Work. In this groundbreaking book, Traci Fenton brings together decades of original research, based on her team's work with hundreds of top companies around the world, such as The WD-40 Company, Mindvalley, DaVita, Menlo Innovations, Zappos, HCL Technologies, and more, revealing the proven pathway to leadership success.

Every day major headlines tell the story of a new and better American marketplace. Established corporations have begun reevaluating the quality of their products, the ethics of their supply chains, and how they can give back by donating portions of their profits to meaningful causes. Meanwhile millions of entrepreneurs who want a more responsible and compassionate marketplace have launched a new breed of socially focused business models.

I started writing Your Writing Partner a few months ago. However, this book is nine years in the making. It is the book I wanted to read as I developed my blogging, digital marketing, and copywriting skills. Information that deals more in practicalities than the theories you would see in a college textbook. That is why Your Writing Partner is more than just a book. Instead, it is a system to help you develop the writing skills you need to drive targeted traffic and conversions to your business through your content. I set up the system, so you do not have to go it alone trying to figure out ...

Strategic initiatives are where the rubber meets the road when it comes to putting strategy into action, and leading a critical initiative may be the key to propelling your career forward. Yet managing a cross-functional team on a high-profile project can present a multitude of challenges and risks, causing even the most experienced manager to struggle.

Do you feel the embers of your business fading? Is the fire in your belly replaced by a gnawing exhaustion? Does every customer demand a pound of flesh, every competitor seem a Goliath, and every minute feel like a sprint uphill? Welcome, fellow traveller, to the shared purgatory of entrepreneurial burnout. We've all been there, staring at the smouldering remains of our dreams, wondering if we even have the strength to sweep up the ashes, dust yourself off and find you new values and reinvent you "Why" “From Burnout's Ashes, a Phoenix Takes Flight” This book is not a pep talk. It is a ...

Africa's Business Revolution provides the inside story on business in Africa and its future growth prospects and helps executives understand and seize the opportunities for building profitable, sustainable enterprises.

Total Competition is the most compelling, comprehensive and revealing insight into what it takes to get to the top in Formula One that has ever been published. Across four decades, Ross Brawn was one of the most innovative and successful technical directors and then team principals in Formula One. Leading Benetton, Ferrari, Honda, Brawn and Mercedes, he worked with drivers such as Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton to make them world champions.

Dim Sum Strategy presents a carefully curated selection of proven strategic tools, with insights and anecdotes from three decades working with some of the world’s leading brands at the world’s top agencies. The book is structured to follow the author’s proven Brand Centered Management™ process, with a smattering of different “tools” split into four parts: Discovery, Definition, Direction, and Delivery. Each tool is presented in bite-sized, standalone chunks; you can listen to the book in stepwise fashion or cherry-pick in whatever order you wish—just like a dim sum meal.

There's so much marketing expertise out there but how should people know what to listen to? How to implement it? Or where to start? By covering the fundamentals of marketing, this audiobook will act as a north star for small business owners looking to grow. Like Alice herself, the book is honest, practical, engaging and actionable - no fluff or complication allowed - and will help you build a community, get visible and make sales. It is rooted in theory but with real-life experiences, and will leave you with the clarity and systems to take your business to the next level.

What do Apple, Starbucks, Dyson and Pret a Manger have in common? How do they achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and-true brands to gasp their last? The old checklist of Ps used by marketers - pricing, promotion, publicity - aren't working anymore. The golden age of advertising is over. It's time to add a new P - the Purple Cow. Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat-out unbelievable.

"The Small Business Playbook" - A Guide for Entrepreneurs Ready to Score Big in Business! Are you ready to transform your small business dreams into reality? Your path to success is about to be revealed with "The Small Business Playbook" – the ultimate guidebook to navigate the thrilling world of entrepreneurship. Every chapter serves as your personal coach, shedding light on essential strategies and practical insights. Imagine having a blueprint that helps you carve out a niche that’s not just unique, but also profitable. This guide takes you on a journey starting with the cornerstone ...

Once, the job of leaders was to identify problems and fix them, while leaving nonproblems alone. Today, the notion that the new way is always better than the old way—and that if you aren’t disrupting everything, you are losing—has come to constitute a new orthodoxy of business thinking. Whether it’s a merger or re-org or a new office layout, change has become the ultimate easy button for leaders, who pursue it with abandon, unleashing a torrent of disruption on employees. The result is life in the blender: a perpetual state of upheaval, uncertainty, and unease.

Henry Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders—Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher—through the distinctive strategies of statecraft that he believes they embodied. To each of these studies, Kissinger brings historical perception, public experience and, because he knew each of the subjects and participated in many of the events he describes, personal knowledge.

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 ...

In this essential audiobook, leading business growth strategist David Meerman Scott and fandom expert Reiko Scott explore the neuroscience of fandom and interview young entrepreneurs, veteran business owners, startup founders, nonprofits, and companies big and small to pinpoint which practices separate organizations that flourish from those stuck in stagnation. They lay out a road map for converting customers’ ardor into buying power, pulling one-of-a-kind examples from a wide range of organizations.

Facing organizational silos or resistance to change? Stakeholders pulling in different directions? Can’t align, get real buy-in, or jumpstart implementation? The problem is traditional planning no longer guarantees success. Rapid change, uncertainty, new technologies, and a flatter world call for a new approach. The award-winning Strategy-In-Action tells how companies ended the long-standing divorce between planners and implementers.