Career Strategy

If you want a no nonsense "crash course" in how to sell your business for the best possible price you need to hear this book.

The corporate world is a complex game that must be mastered in order to achieve great success and rise up the organizational ladder. There are many rewards for the winners in this game-playing environment, and as with many things in life, the corporate world can be quite brutal for the losers in this competitive ecosystem of complicated relationships and diverse behaviors that must be effectively navigated in the course of playing the strategic game. Ergo, learn to play the game of office politics or suffer the unkind consequences of being destroyed on the corporate battlefield.

Not sure what to post on social media? Struggling to come up with fresh content ideas? This audiobook can help! Turning social likes into real cash takes time, consistency, and laser-focused strategy. But finely tuned tactics are only half the battle. The other half? Creating content that your audience will absolutely love.

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

Jack is a stressed out CEO of a once great business, Stackflow. But after a pandemic, supply chain chaos, labor market fluctuations, and his own failed strategic initiatives, Jack is struggling to keep his head above water—and the company's. Like nearly every other CEO in history, Jack is working endless hours away from his family, who is quickly losing patience. During those long days, he's cobbling together ideas and goals—and still not seeing meaningful results.

Management teams and boards are facing disruption on all sides, from morphing customer preferences to the COVID pandemic to climate change. At the same time they are floundering in strategy confusion with too many concepts and not enough clarity. In this book, strategy expert and regular Harvard Business Review author Graham Kenny releases managers and directors from their strategy haze. His simple and effective framework allows managers to navigate the current maze of ideas and approaches and maximize their competitive advantage.

In today's tumultuous business environment, managers want guidance in the form of a timely theme, a unique and memorable metaphor, and outside-the-box thinking. That's precisely what Corporate Canaries delivers. The book features five core chapters revealing five common business hazards, and each lesson is accompanied by a story based on the author's grandfather's work in the coal industry, as well as an applicable "canary warning" for each theme.

If you’re reading this, you’re probably not on law review. That’s OK, many of the profession’s most-successful lawyers graduated near the bottom of the class. Law school grades are the principal metric used by hiring professionals―but they’re not the only one. If your grades aren’t what you’d hoped for, then you’ll need to grab the attention of hiring professionals some other way. This book will show you precisely how to do it. NOW is the time to start creating an impressive, attention-grabbing, job-getting resume. If you read this book, you’ll learn powerful new ...

From the New York Times best-selling author of Reverse Innovation, Vijay Govindarajan, comes a new, comprehensive playbook for developing your corporate strategy for the future.

A mediocre category designer will beat a world-class marketer every day of the week. The reason is because all marketing sits within a context. "He or she who frames the problem owns the solution." Without this context—without a category—your marketing becomes nothing but screaming, shouting, and pitching customers with deals, discounts, and other short-term tactics in the hopes of landing a sale.

Struggling with social media marketing for business? Feeling overwhelmed or don't even know where to begin? This is the book for you! 500 Social Media Marketing Tips is your complete guide to social media success for business, featuring hundreds of the actionable strategies for success on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok, and more!

On April 10, 1966, a crowd of 10,000 farm workers and supporters gathered at the California state capitol to celebrate victory in one of the most significant strikes in American history - one that made Cesar Chavez famous as leader of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Marshall Ganz tells the story of the UFW's ground-breaking victory, drawing out larger lessons from this dramatic tale.

A lean strategy is about gaining a competitive edge by offering better quality products at competitive prices and making a sustainable profit by eliminating waste through engaging employees in discovering deeper ways to think about their own jobs and smarter ways of working together. In its current form, lean has been radically effective, but its true powers have yet to be harnessed. The Lean Strategy harnesses that power and delivers a new way of creating value from lean.

I used to think LinkedIn was a colossal waste of time - until I discovered the simple secrets to success on LinkedIn. If you want to know how to double your leads and sales using LinkedIn beyond what you thought possible...without spending hundreds of dollars on ads...or trying to become a "viral" hit.... Then this will be the most important message you ever read. Here’s why. If you've been on LinkedIn for a while, the scenario I’m about to describe may be familiar to you.... You’ve found great companies on LinkedIn, that need what you have.

"All warfare is based on deception." With this insight, Sun Tzu invites us into the mind of one of history’s greatest military strategists. The Art of War is more than a military manual; it’s an ancient guide to mastering conflict, power, and human interaction. Written over 2,500 years ago in ancient China, its wisdom remains relevant across time and disciplines—from business to politics to personal growth. Sun Tzu’s treatise explores the profound nature of strategy.

Ever wonder why you've had more strategy conversations than you can count, but not a single strategist discussion you can remember? That's because strategy has made a career out of ignoring the strategist—until now. Strategists First will help you learn what every strategist needs to know, including: who strategists are, what strategists believe, how strategists behave, where strategists thrive, when strategists strike, and why strategists matter.

This book will teach you the fundamentals of investing in an easy-to-understand and concise way. After you listen to this audiobook, you will be able to easily beat the market and invest without fear. You will be able to multiply your money by 10 times and live off of passive income. My formula will help anyone of any age make money in the stock market.

This book will take you from knowing nothing about the vending machine business to learning more about it than most people running an already successful business of this kind!

Laurie Beth Jones, management expert and business consultant extraordinaire, noticed that of the personality/temperament profiles in the market today, none of them provided a tool that was simple, visual, intuitive, and powerful enough to create a shift in thinking as well as relating. So she developed The Path Elements Profile (PEP), which can be used in recruitment, placement, retention, team building, and customer relations as businesses transform many individuals into a harmonizing, humming force for good.

With The Strategy Activation Playbook, author Aric Wood, CEO of XPLANE, teaches you how to do what he's helped organizations around the world accomplish: align and activate the people in your organization to execute your strategy and realize your vision.