Business Strategy

Unlike traditional marketing mediums, social media doesn’t swallow a huge chunk of your advertising and promotion budget. You don’t need to create cost-intensive and ineffectual marketing plans that leave you broke. All you need is some creativity, perceptiveness, and an intuitive understanding about your audience’s needs. More than sharp business acumen, you need a human touch. Social media gives your brand a human angle without breaking the bank.

Even the best competitive strategies mean nothing if they can't be executed. Yet many organizations struggle when they move from defining a strategy to implementing it. Somehow, all the careful planning falls to the side, and leaders are left wondering how to pick up the pieces. The HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy is here to help. This book offers leaders and managers tips and advice for how to take even the most detailed strategy and apply it throughout their organizations.

A new model is being pioneered by geeks; a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can – and should – be. They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era, with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking. They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time. They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek would: through trial and error, egalitarianism, evidence and stress-testing ideas in a group setting – rather than relying on the boss’s instincts.

A Stage 2 business has between 11-19 employees. As the Ramp-Up Stage, a Stage 2 company is at a place where it has gained enough employees that more organizational structure needs to be put into place. The owner or CEO needs to focus on developing up to three supervisors/managers who can begin to help oversee some of the team. Growth must continue to come through the increase of profitable revenue, which typically requires increasing the structure and consistency of business development initiatives. Failure to create stable revenue streams will lead to the company stalling, or potentially ...

WINNER – INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2025 (Business: General) Please note: Although the audiobook version is narrated using advanced AI voice technology, the author has carefully reviewed and edited every spoken line for clarity and engagement. Listen to the free sample and hear the difference that meticulous editing and author involvement can make. Learn the secrets to building winning teams – not just once, but again and again. Discover the psychology, action principles, and proven roadmaps behind true team success in this breakthrough handbook for leaders, executives, and HR ...

"Greed is good". Remember the phrase immortalised by Michael Douglas who played Gordon Gekko in the 1987 movie Wall Street? Well, the world has more than lived up to these words by pursuing the principle that excessive greed is even better. In an analysis of the principles driving modern business, Wayne Visser and Clem Sunter demonstrate that the predatory behaviour of the lion is symbolic of the way most companies are run today. But the world cannot go on like this. They argue strongly for an alternative and more positive vision involving sustainable business in both a social and an ...

Jeff Bezos is a dreamer who turned a bold idea into the world’s most influential company, a brand that likely touches your life every day. As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, and present. He created a scalable model that grew from a small team in a Seattle garage to one of the world’s largest employers. The Bezos Blueprint by Carmine Gallo reveals the communication strategies that Jeff Bezos pioneered to fuel Amazon’s astonishing growth.

The world's most successful businesses leaders understand that creating a shared social identity around their products and services is the most efficient path to scaling revenue, differentiating products, promoting customer success and retention, and seizing category ownership. The Business of Belonging is the playbook for doing just that. CMX founder David Spinks offers advice for creating community strategy, aligning it with your business objectives, and launching and managing a community of end users.

Deliver valuable digital transformation. Know how to create a supportive environment—one that fosters collaboration, encourages open communication, and aligns with employee needs. Challenging the normal perception that digital is just about replacing humans, author Chris Airey brings to life the value of a growth mindset in digital transformation. You have all that knowledge and experience in your people—learn how you can bring them into the digital transformation journey and equip them for change rather than resistance. If only the recipe for competitive advantage generating digital ...

A powerful truth lies at the heart of lasting business success: when relationships thrive, everyone wins. Rooted in empirical research and decades of experience working directly with elite-level business owners, Russ Alan Prince, a leading authority in the private wealth industry, and Frank V. Carone, Founder and Chairman of Oaktree Solutions and one of the foremost experts on negotiating, unveil the transformative Everyone Wins Process—a proven four-step methodology for building and optimizing relationships that foster ethical, practical, long-term success, and financial freedom. Why The...

Las claves estratégicas de uno de los grupos empresariales más exitosos y emblemáticos de México. Establecida en 1945, Bimbo surgió a partir de la experiencia de sus fundadores en la panadería El Molino para producir y vender pan de caja en el territorio de la República Mexicana. Ahora, con presencia en más de treinta países, es un emblema del crecimiento empresarial mexicano en un mundo globalizado y competitivo.

In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek, internationally best-selling author of Start With Why, investigates these great leaders from Marine Corps Officers, who don't just sacrifice their place at the table but often their own comfort and even their lives for those in their care, to the heads of big business and government - each putting aside their own interests to protect their teams.

Fuel Your Success: How Discovering Your 'Why' Transforms Business and Life Behind every successful business lies a powerful "why"—a deep-rooted purpose that fuels resilience, drives motivation, and sustains momentum. In Fuel Your Success, you’ll uncover the secret to lasting success by unlocking the true power of your "why." Whether you're just starting out or navigating the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, this book provides practical strategies and emotional insight to help you stay focused, overcome obstacles, and keep pushing forward—even when motivation fades. Through real-life...

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 ...

Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures.

Embark on a transformative journey through the pages of my memoir, where I unveil the remarkable tale of a rags-to-riches ascent in the business world. From humble beginnings, I forged my path, starting with nothing but a dream and a relentless drive to succeed. Discover the intricacies of my passionate spirit as I navigated the challenges of the textile rental business. Through sheer determination, I turned adversity into opportunity, learning invaluable lessons in resilience, risk-taking, and the power of a visionary mindset. This book is not just about business success; it's about ...

The Logistics Advantage: A Practical Guide to Mastering Supply Chain Success Are you fresh out of college and feeling overwhelmed in your first logistics job? A small business owner struggling to get products where they need to go—on time and on budget? An industry professional who knows there's still more to learn? You’re not alone—and this book is your shortcut to logistics confidence. Written by a seasoned supply chain expert with experience in both Oil & Gas and Tech industries, The Logistics Advantage is a no-nonsense guide for those who want to master logistics without the fluff...

#1 Must-Read for Future-Focused Leaders, Innovators & Change-Makers Are you ready to stop reacting to change—and start creating it? Disruption doesn’t knock—it crashes in. Whether it’s a sudden shift in market dynamics, groundbreaking technologies like AI, economic uncertainty, or global crises, one thing is clear: the world is changing faster than ever. And in today’s high-stakes environment, those who wait to adapt are already behind. Seeing the Future: Anticipating Disruption, Creating Opportunity, and Leading Forward is your essential playbook for thriving in a world of chaos,...

Tus próximas cinco jugadas es una guía práctica y efectiva que te ayudará a pensar con mayor claridad y a conseguir tus objetivos profesionales más audaces.

Meetings, meetings, meetings. That's all we seem to do these days. Millions of meetings happen around the world every day, some are boring, others late, and many are frustratingly unproductive. Meetings seem to cause difficulties for organizations everywhere. With video, phone and hybrid work becoming the norm, it’s critical that we get meetings right. The same advice is rolled out every few months on blogs, business magazines, podcasts and YouTube: Have an agenda Start on time Keep to the point Define actions Yet, despite the same suggestions being repeated ad nauseam, nothing seems to ...