Business Strategy

Stop explaining yourself. Stop managing other people’s comfort. Stop tolerating what should never have been allowed. Never Tolerate Disrespect isn’t a self-help book. It’s a field manual for anyone who’s done being polite about being disrespected. With ruthless clarity and cold precision, this book strips away the sentimental noise around boundary-setting and replaces it with a strategy—one that doesn’t require yelling, overexplaining, or approval. Built on psychological realism and social pattern recognition, each chapter delivers blunt, unsentimental guidance for how to freeze...

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 ...

This book is a collection of questions and answers from my Quora and responses to students. It addresses a broad range of issues that come up about the nature of financial statements, how to value a company or startup, how to analyze financials, and how to create personal wealth. Check out the table of contents and see if this material is of interest to you.

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Personalized is a playbook for delivering true personalization at scale. In this book, Boston Consulting Group's Mark Abraham and Harvard Business School's David C. Edelman describe Five Promises of Personalization. Personalized is a playbook for delivering true personalization at scale. With detailed examples across industries—including retail, health care, banking, technology, and travel—this book will help executives learn how to put personalization at the center of their strategy, accelerate growth, and capture their share of the $2 trillion personalization prize.

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 ...

Rainer Maria Morita is proud to reveal, for the first time, the breakthrough interview methodology - Peak Performance Interviewing for Executives. The goal is to win C-suite job interviews at the $200K-$1 Million level. Worldwide it has gained great popularity among thousands of job seekers who owe their career advancement and job interview success to this technique. Bestseller author Rainer Morita distilled the essence of what drives ultimate job interview success in this short book with one goal in mind - help you be # 1 in interviews and get you the job offer.

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.

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.

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 ...

Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and Zen philosophy. Required reading for any martial artist, business person or student of strategy. Includes the one hour Zen inspired soundtrack The Mysterious Sound of Wind in the Bamboo. Performed on authentic Japanese instruments.

#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,...

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 ...

From early on, we are taught that getting a certain job is the only to get ahead, that we have to do well at school, that failure is embarrassing and to be avoided. We're so busy trying to follow these rules that we never stop and ask ourselves: What's my purpose? What do I really want? Simon Squibb is on a mission to change stranger's lives for the better. Here, he shares the hard-won life lessons from his years in the business world, plus his own personal life, and empowers listeners to identify their own meaningful goals.

Chock-full of real-world examples of mistakes, heartbreak, and redemption that makes it sound more like a juicy exposé than a business book, Love as a Business Strategy offers a new, people-first framework for achieving any business outcome. Written by authors who aren't fans of run-of-the-mill, nap-inducing business or leadership books, this book clearly shows that a better way of doing business is possible, helping listeners ditch the status quo, embrace humanity, and achieve lasting success.