Strategic Planning

In Strategy in the Age of Disruption, a team of dedicated strategists delivers an exciting and practical guide to Industry 4.0, a commercial transformation that's impacting every facet of the market, the environment, and our social lives. You'll learn what Industry 4.0 is, what it means for you and your company, and how you—as a leader, manager, expert, entrepreneur, or investor—can capitalize on it and put it into practice.

Based on extensive primary research conducted over more than fifteen years, this book documents the differential contribution of HP's successive CEOs in sustaining the company's integral process of becoming. It uses a comprehensive strategic leadership framework to examine and explain the role of the CEO: (1) defining and executing the key tasks of strategic leadership, and (2) developing four key elements of the company's strategic leadership capability.

The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over four million copies globally and is in print in forty-six languages. But much of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's work on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages of Harvard Business Review. This book brings the best of those articles together all in one place.

This book provides a detailed, step-by-step account of how fraud can be committed in the construction industry, narrated through the experiences of Robert, a former project manager who orchestrated a sophisticated scheme to siphon funds using a fake vendor. Combining his personal story with actionable insights, Robert reveals the vulnerabilities that allow fraud to thrive, the devastating consequences of unethical behavior, and the strategies businesses can adopt to protect themselves.

Mastering the Market: A Dual Approach to Client and Customer Engagement offers a revolutionary perspective on building sustainable, profitable relationships in today's dynamic market. Through in-depth analysis, real-world case studies, and innovative strategies, author Welbon Omar Salaam equips businesses with the tools to understand and leverage the distinct needs of clients and customers alike. From personalization and AI in customer interactions to crafting seamless customer journeys and fostering client trust, this guide is indispensable for businesses aiming to thrive.

From ancient battlefields to the modern business landscape, competitors have tried innumerable approaches to conquering adversaries. Success for the victors has taken many forms and traveled many paths, but at its heart, winning strategy can be boiled down to ten universal principles. When learned and implemented, these principals become powerful drivers of business excellence. Renowned strategy expert William A. Cohen, whose considerable experience in the military, corporate, and academic sectors forms the basis for The Art of the Strategist.

As the new property manager of the failing eight-hundred-unit Mesquite Ridge Apartments, Eliza Hawkins must quickly increase occupancy and meet budgeted revenue goals if she wants to keep her job. What she doesn’t understand until her first day is that she’s stepped into a toxic team culture.

After a decade of rapid growth, the world’s most celebrated emerging markets are poised to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them? To identify the economic stars of the future, we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. As an era of easy money and easy growth comes to a close, China in particular will cool down.

Title The Strategic Careerist Dive into the world where career and strategy unite. The Strategic Careerist offers a thrilling route to self-discovery within your professional journey. Through 25 immersive chapters, the book gently ushers readers on a path of career enlightenment, matching aspirations to effective strategic planning- without any jargon or lofty theories! Yearning for an exploration of your unique strengths and talents? Chapter 2 offers an intimate conversation with your potential, fueling the drive to identify skills you neither knew nor acknowledged before. Navigating ...

Retire-Me-Not-Planning might sound more like you...And you just realized that retirement planning isn’t something you can wait until retirement to do? You’re not alone… Almost half of the American workforce lacks an available retirement plan. When we’re young, it’s impossible to fathom a future in which we’ll be old enough to retire, and as our careers blossom and our lives fill up, it’s easy to let retirement planning slip by the wayside.

In the long run, economies grow. Over the shorter-term business cycle, economic activity contracts and expands. From Main Street to Wall Street examines both the long-run relation between economic growth and stock returns and the shorter-term business-cycle relation. It examines the complex relationship between the economy and the stock market, and guides listeners through the fascinating interaction between economic activity and financial markets.

Are you ready to find the love of your life and leave the dating game for good? Have you wasted months or even years dating the wrong men? Are you frustrated, exhausted, and wondering why dating is so hard? Has the online dating game led you to believe true love will never come your way? Do not give up on love! You can meet your husband without ever wasting time on the wrong men again. Award-winning matchmaker Michelle Jacoby's game-changing five-step plan will show you how to leave unhealthy men, commitment-phobes, and narcissists behind so you can finally meet your wonderful husband. In ...

In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it. Soros places the current crisis in the context of his decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity.

Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Investing Mastery is a book primarily written to help you navigate your way through NFT investing. The book explores the basics of NFTs and how to make, buy, sell, trade, and invest in NFT crypto. Because of the complexity of crypto and qn NFT investment, this guide to Non-Fungible Token has been specifically designed to serve the investment needs of both beginners and pros. So, whichever category you fall into, you don’t have to sweat over it, as this book is well-simplified to lead you through your NFT investment journey.

You are a vessel in the sea of life. Whether you like it or not, whether you float or sink, stand still or move forward, you are always anchored or searching for an anchor. And it’s better to know your anchor points than to be anchored without knowing. If you think you are floating freely, think again. Do you know your anchor points?

In the 1990s, nobody in Russia stood above Boris Berezovsky – not even the President of Russia. He built his estimated fortune of $40bn with interests in oil, media, banking, and aviation by cutting deals with bureaucrats and fellow businessmen, rapidly intimidating and charming his way to wealth. After a change of guard in the Kremlin in the early 2000s, newly elected President Vladimir Putin began to view his former friend and ally Berezovsky as a billionaire run amok and as a danger to his own power.

In today's rapidly evolving global landscape, the ability to navigate and lead change is not just beneficial—it's essential. This capacity becomes even more critical for those in leadership positions, who must grapple with multifaceted challenges that demand innovative solutions. Whether you're a seasoned leader, an aspiring manager, or simply someone interested in understanding the mechanics of change, this book is a valuable addition to your collection. Immerse yourself in it to master the art of leading change and inspire others to do the same.

We tend to view prolonged economic downturns, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Long Depression of the late 19th century, in terms of the crisis and pain they cause. But history teaches us that these great crises also represent opportunities to remake our economy and society and to generate whole new eras of economic growth and prosperity.

Managing an effective sales organization is key to revenue generation, customer satisfaction, and business results. But whether you're a sales manager or leading a large sales force, it's increasingly challenging to balance success today with driving the digital sales transformation that will position your team for the future. With actionable insights and examples from many industries worldwide, the HBR Sales Management Handbook provides the resources you need to build value for your company, your customers, and your sales teams.

Companies emerge from smart people with clever ideas. However, vision alone is not enough, as only one out of three companies lasts 10 years. It takes a systematic approach to make a company sustainably successful. In Your Company Is Your Castle, Sandeep Chennakeshu, a business transformation veteran, compares building a company to that of a medieval castle that has withstood the test of time, having weathered nature's elements and hordes of invaders.