Business Strategy

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.

Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a 12-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound.

Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world. How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room—and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality.

With the onslaught of cloud solutions, consumerization of technology, and increasingly tech-savvy business people, it's time for a manifesto for leaders who recognize - and are nervous about - the demands of the digital age. Whether you're an executive, department head, or IT manager, The New IT provides an action-ready blueprint for building and strengthening the role of IT in your company - and prescribing IT's future.

The Ultimate Small Business Taxes Blueprint: Slash Your Tax Bill, Boost Profits, and Take Control of Your Finances! Maximize Your Profits. Minimize Your Taxes. Master the IRS Maze with Confidence! If you’re an entrepreneur tired of seeing a huge chunk of your hard-earned revenue disappear to taxes—or worse, living in fear of IRS penalties—this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Does this sound familiar? ✅ Frustrated by complicated tax laws that seem impossible to navigate? ✅ Worried about overpaying taxes—or making costly tax mistakes that drain your profits? ✅ Fearful of ...

You’ve got an offer ready to roll, and now you’re excited to get some traffic and start making sales. But now comes the hard part, TRAFFIC. The key to a good traffic strategy is to create a plan and then take consistent steps to make that plan happen. And with that in mind...... Here's Here's what's covered Inside: The Traffic Checklist: 20 Things to Do To Promote Any Offer How To Get Traffic From Multiple Sources From One Piece Of Content The Traffic Campaign Worksheet: Getting The Right People To See The Right Offer Optimization Outlines: Using Strategic Content For Search Clicks ...

Book Description: Unlock the secrets to mastering leadership, power dynamics, and influence with “48 Laws of Dominance: Mastering Strategies to Dominate Power Dynamics, Leadership, Build Authority, and Influence Others in Business and Life.” This book is your comprehensive guide to understanding the principles that drive success in every aspect of your life—whether you’re in the boardroom, negotiating deals, or building meaningful relationships. In today’s fast-paced world, dominating leadership and influence is essential for those who want to stay ahead. This book reveals 48 ...

Celebrated promoter of the "Four P's of Marketing", Philip Kotler, explains how marketers can use technology to address customers' needs and make a difference in the world. In a new age when marketers are struggling with the digital transformation of business and the changing behavior of customers, this book provides marketers with a way to integrate technological and business model evolution with the dramatic shifts in consumer behavior that have happened in the last decade.

What if strategy could instead be clear, simple, bold, and even actually useful? That’s what No Bullsh*t Strategy is all about. It sweeps away all the garbled corporate nonsense and dry academic theorising to leave you with pure strategic sauce, which can be actioned right away. It’ll make you see your business in a totally new light, and effortlessly unlock insights you didn’t know you had in you. Even better, it makes strategy fun.

Today, small and medium businesses are faced with daunting challenges: *Increasing global competition *An unprecedented array of media and technologies *New and evolving buyer expectations *Demand for real-time and relevant brand engagement To succeed in today's environment, effective strategies are needed. This book is for start-ups and established companies who want to grow their business. *Create winning approaches to the market *Avoid common pitfalls, saving time and money *Eliminate waste on unproductive approaches and tactics *Accelerate revenue growth and success Marketing For ...

This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end, guiding listeners (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over twenty total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world.

Imagine running a business without a strategy. It would be akin to driving blindfolded, to building a house without a blueprint. The concept of strategy changed all that, paving the way for the creation of the modern corporate world. The Lords of Strategy provides listeners with a deeper understanding of the world they compete in, and a sharper eye for what works — and what doesn’t — when forging strategy.

Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard's John Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help thousands of people and organizations. The fable is about a penguin colony in Antarctica. A group of beautiful emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home - and pretty much no one listens to him.

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today's workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation - especially difficult ones - leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches listeners how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

Strategies for Explosive Business Growth How High-Level Leaders Scale With Alignment, Profit, and Legacy in Mind At a certain level, growth isn’t about speed—it’s about substance. In this final volume of her bestselling 7-book series, Executive Book Strategist Candace Sinclair reveals how executive entrepreneurs, C-suite leaders, and seasoned founders can unlock powerful, aligned business growth without sacrificing energy, profit, or purpose. This isn’t just a book about scale. It’s a guide to reimagining success from the inside out. Inside, you’ll discover how to: Stop default-...

WARNING : DO NOT READ THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE LAZY Every blueprint comes with a detailed breakdown of each component or part and is accompanied with explanations and examples. These are the same blueprints that I and many other marketers use to create a successful business. This is what separates an okay Internet marketer with a successful one. Most marketers don't use a funnel, and this is them basically leaving out thousands of potential sales. And there are those who have used a funnel but were not able to see results. There's a few reasons why some people fail with funnels. They structured...

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 ...

To make these big moves happen for your company, you’re going to have to break through inertia, gamesmanship, and risk aversion. You’re going to have to mitigate human biases and manage group dynamics. Eight practical shifts can help you do this, and unlock bigger, bolder, better strategies. This is not another by-the-book approach to strategy. It’s not another trudge through frameworks or small-scale case studies promising a secret formula for success. It’s an irreverent, fact-driven, and humorous take on the real world of strategic decision making.

All businesses can benefit from “Lean.” Learn the benefits of lean manufacturing and how to initiate a lean program. The author helps us understand what lean thinking and methods offer. We need a sense of purpose before we apply any effort. Companies often fail at implementing lean due to a poor rollout. Mr. McWhorter helps us avoid this. The success of lean relies on people and processes. We need all employees to recognize leans potential for improving the work environment. Supervisors, managers and those in authority positions must become mentors, role models, and coaches. We are ...

21 Business and marketing lessons is inspired by the streets of Pattaya, one of the world’s largest red light districts. People are either fascinated, excited or repulsed by the concept of prostitution, especially when it comes to extreme places like Pattaya. Once you get passed any initial judgement or emotional reaction there is actually a lot to learn. As an international author and speaker on the topic of business, Leon was invited to speak at an event held in this notorious red-light area. Most people are shocked or amazed by this city. As a business man, and a lifetime student of ...