Strategic Planning

The Escalator Effect™ details four essential steps to lead and inspire your organization to rising success. The business model provides a strategy and system to help leaders build and grow meaningful focus and direction; energize and engage their teams; refine their customer (or member) experience; and create and deliver relevant distinction in the marketplace. If you are a seasoned executive seeking new insights, in a start-up just getting going, a CEO, senior or middle management, a non-profit, or even an aspiring leader or manager, the proven concepts in this book can give you tools ...

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.

It’s a Win-When offers readers a practical guide to making thoughtful, value-driven decisions that balance immediate satisfaction with long-term success. Drawing on personal experiences and real-life scenarios, this book introduces the Win-When philosophy, a powerful framework for decision-making that ensures every choice you make brings both present and future rewards. Through engaging stories and reflective prompts, It’s a Win-When explores common decision-making pitfalls and shows readers how to avoid emotional impulses, short-term thinking, and external pressures that lead to regret...

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Brenda, Kevin, and the kids were stuck...Brenda had taken a 20 percent pay cut and was told by her boss she should feel "lucky to still have a job". But they were already living paycheck to paycheck. How were they going to get by with 20 percent less income? Move. Brenda was offered a great job six states away. They'd have to sell the house, though. But they didn't have much equity. The few offers they received were lower than what they owed. Can't sell a house if you can't pay off your loan.

Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth rates across the Western world, nations are no longer willing to sacrifice national interests for global growth, nor are their leaders able - or willing - to sell the idea of pursuing a global agenda of prosperity to their citizens.

"Embark on a transformative journey into the realm of project management with 'Strategic Project Budgeting: Driving Success through Cost Control.' This comprehensive guide unveils the art and science of budgeting, offering invaluable insights to empower project managers, executives, and stakeholders alike. Authored by an industry expert, the book navigates through the intricacies of strategic budgeting, demonstrating how meticulous cost control is the linchpin to project success. From establishing realistic budgets to mastering risk assessment, each chapter is a strategic compass, guiding ...

Cost reduction...productivity improvement...customer retention...these are the promises of the Six Sigma quality management system. The Six Sigma Way reveals how GE, Motorola, and numerous other companies are successfully using Six Sigma to fine-tune products and processes, improve performance, and increase profits. Now you can hear the road map for implementing Six Sigma in your manufacturing or service organization.

In "Retreat Riches: Revitalize Any Business with Strategic Getaways," Jessica Sitomer, a seasoned expert in driving growth and success, unveils the power of experiential retreats as a transformative tool for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Through a blend of practical strategies and inspirational anecdotes, "Retreat Riches" equips you with the tools to plan, market, and execute retreats that not only expand your business but also foster deep connections and lasting transformation among your clientele. Whether you're seeking to deepen your impact, forge meaningful relationships, or ...

Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week's meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts' predictions are only slightly better than chance. However, an important and underreported conclusion of that study was that some experts do have real foresight.

Resilience is not an innate character trait. Whether you’re in a leadership role or working as part of a team, you need to implement strategies that build and nurture resilience. You need a resilience plan. Award-winning mental health expert Marie-Hélène Pelletier draws on her clinical practice and extensive knowledge in therapeutics and business practices to explore how resilience is the best defense against burnout and how everyone can build it in themselves—not with a one-size-fits-all plan but with strategies to help you create a custom plan.

An introduction for everyone. In this rich, fascinating—surprisingly accessible—introduction, leading expert Eric Siegel reveals how predictive analytics (aka machine learning) works, and how it affects everyone every day. Rather than a "how to" for hands-on techies, the book serves lay listeners and experts alike by covering new case studies and the latest state-of-the-art techniques.

Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy”.

We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you combat new competitors and define the best strategy for your company. With insights from leading experts including Michael E. Porter, A. G. Lafley, and Clayton M. Christensen, this book will inspire you to: choose a strategy that meets the demands of your competitive environment; identify the signals of disruption and take steps to avoid it; understand lean methodology and how it is changing business; and more.

Drawing on examples from over 100 foundations and non-profits, Money Well Spent gives listeners the framework they need to design a smart strategy. This is a book for everyone who wants to get the most from a philanthropic dollar: donors, foundations, and non-profits.

Marketing is so basic that it cannot be considered as separate function. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view. - Peter Drucker. Marketing is indeed an ancient art; it has been practiced in one form or the other, since the days of Adam and Eve. Today, it has become the most vital function in the world of business. Marketing is the business function that identifies unfulfilled needs and wants, define and measures their magnitude, determines which target market the organization can best serve, decides on ...

We are living in a strange world—Salmon calls it “the New Not Normal.” The Phoenix Economy explores the ramifications of the pandemic years, many of which are surprisingly positive. In doing so, Salmon makes sense of one of the most disorienting and devastating events of our lifetimes. He examines the critical aspects of our lives that have been transformed in three parts: Time and Space, Mind and Body, and Business and Pleasure.

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.

How will we live well in a super-networked, information-soaked, yet predictably irrational world? The only way to know is to understand how the way we think is changing. As economist Tyler Cowen boldly shows in Create Your Own Economy, the way we think now is changing more rapidly than it has in a very long time. Not since the Industrial Revolution has a man-made creation - in this case, the World Wide Web - so greatly influenced the way our minds work and our human potential.

WHY IMPLEMENT CORE VALUES IN YOUR BUSINESS 1. Improved Decision-Making 2. Cohesive Company Culture 3. Meaningful Employee Satisfaction and Engagement 4. Maintain Strong Business Ethic 5. Build Customer Credibility and Loyalty 6. Create Competitive Advantage 7. Strategic Alignment with Mission and Vision 8. Encourage Innovation and Creativity 9. Effective and Consistent Leadership 10. Positive Reputation RESULT: a more purpose-driven, ethical, and successful organization.