Strategic Planning

A rapid and massively disruptive shift from centralized to distributed organizations has already begun. But current leadership practices were designed for large centralized organizations, making them increasingly obsolete. Bob Johansen, who has been projecting future trends from Silicon Valley since 1968, outlines five literacies leaders need to develop to cope with this brave new world.

Companies are fighting the wrong battle. The consensus has been to learn the best practices from Big Tech and imitate them. But new paths for growth aren't created by imitation; they're forged by radical differentiation. In Smart Rivals, Harvard Business School professor Feng Zhu and former Bloomberg journalist Bonnie Cao show business leaders how to create new competitive advantages by offering product features and benefits that tech giants and other competitors cannot match.

This book explains why meaningful innovation naturally emerges from deliberate inefficiency and how large corporations can harness the power of small teams—startups—to drive radical change through systematic experimentation.

Business leaders are continually told they need to embrace digital disruption wholeheartedly to thrive in the 21st century. Legacy companies, we hear, are all doomed to fail unless they double down on the latest digital innovations, and disruptors are ordained to take over the world. Digital innovation is the answer to everything. False! Nothing in life or business is ever that simple.

Muchos se preguntan quiénes están detrás del éxito de los creadores de contenido más populares de los últimos tiempos, como Calle & Poché, Sebastián Villalobos, Juan Pablo Jaramillo, Mario Ruiz y Xime Ponch. Uno de ellos es Lina Cáceres, cofundadora del departamento digital de la agencia de representación de talentos más importante de la región, LatinWE, quien ha convertido a sus creadores digitales en celebridades multiplataforma.

Demographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change. For those who can read beyond the raw figures, they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead. What will happen when retiring Boomers free up jobs? How will Generation Y alter supermarkets? Which states will have the most dynamic workforces? Will American manufacturing rebound as Asia's population declines? Upside puts this powerful yet little-understood science to work finding answers.

Embark on a transformative journey through the world of investing with "Strategic Investment Mastery: Navigating the Journey to Financial Success." This essential guide is meticulously crafted for both novice and experienced investors seeking to deepen their understanding and refine their approach to building a robust investment portfolio. Over three insightful chapters, this ebook demystifies complex financial concepts, outlines practical strategies for long-term success, and equips you with the tools to navigate the ever-changing landscape of the investment world. From laying the ...

Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what it was. How had our models so utterly failed us? To answer this question, Alan Greenspan embarked on a rigorous and far-reaching multiyear examination of how Homo economicus predicts the economic future, and how it can predict it better.

The body of Christ has entered an era where the saints in Heaven and the saints upon the earth join forces to build true Kingdom business enterprises. Learning to engage the Business Complex of Heaven can dramatically change the way you build and grow your business. No longer do you need to scramble around trying to gain direction. Heaven already has the details worked out. This book introduces you to Heaven’s Business Complex and helps you navigate and maximize the various departments and resources of this aspect of the realms of Heaven. Never again do you have to stumble. You have all ...

LEADERSHIP is about RESULTS. Time is your most valuable resource, then money. Time spent without FOCUS (strategy) leaves nowhere. Time spent in a focused deliberate manner can make you Millions of $s and prevent you from wasting resources without getting results. You will get thousands of times of what you spend here in return in your first year if you follow this simple self paced process. LEADERS both new and seasoned have benefited greatly from structuring their direction with this clear and practical process. This is not a boring book, it is a direct to the point (what, why and how) ...

In The Sea We Swim In, Frank Rose leads us to a new understanding of stories and their role in our lives. For decades, experts from many fields - psychologists, economists, advertising and marketing executives - failed to register the power of narrative. Scientists thought stories were frivolous. Economists were knee-deep in theory. Marketers just wanted to cut to the sales pitch. Yet stories, not reasoning, are the key to persuasion.

International Marketing: Principles and Practice. A management-oriented approach This innovative book provides a comprehensive introduction to international marketing and strategic marketing management. The book offers a clear and easy-to-understand overview of the latest developments in international marketing - in all aspects. The most important theoretical aspects are explained in an easily accessible way to facilitate the transfer of this knowledge into real decision-making situations. In addition, the book not only integrates all relevant aspects of international strategic and ...

Drawing on a wide array of people and places, Uncharted traces long-term projects that shrewdly evolved over generations to meet the unpredictable challenges of every new age. Heffernan also looks at radical exercises and experiments that redefined standard practices by embracing different perspectives and testing fresh approaches. Preparing to confront a variable future provides the antidote to passivity and prediction.

The realm of Heaven contains for businesses, business leaders, and business owners a deep well of revelation regarding their activity on earth in the business of their trade. This book contains more revelation regarding the Heaven Down business paradigm and helps the reader understand more foundational building blocks for engaging Heaven’s release of how you conduct your business from Heaven Down. This book contains specific teaching for a business’s beginning and the interesting twist regarding retroactive capabilities of these beginning steps. Continue the journey of the Heaven Down ...

Sales is the oxygen of every organization, whether it be a company, charity or not-for-profit. So it logically follows that "Why should I choose you?" is the single most important question an organization must answer in order to survive and thrive. This book describes a process over 400 leaders have used to define the ONE thing, at their core, that makes them uniquely remarkable–in 7 words or less. This short expression of your organization's root value does a number of critical things for you:

Unlocking Business Growth is your essential toolkit for navigating the complexities of expanding your enterprise with confidence and precision. Dive into a strategic exploration designed to transform burgeoning potential into realized success. This comprehensive guide begins with the foundational importance of understanding and cultivating growth potential, emphasizing strategic planning as the backbone of any robust expansion endeavor. Discover how to define and communicate your business’s core values, ensuring they align seamlessly with your growth goals. Learn the art of strategic ...

Managing Priorities is your guide to prioritizing anything-anytime and anywhere. Harry Max digs into the best practices for prioritization at Apple, DreamWorks, NASA, Adobe, Google, Microsoft, and beyond, and brings them together in a single, practical method that you can apply step by step.

"The Accountability Equation" offers a revolutionary guide for mental health group practice owners facing the chaos of unmanaged systems and staff burnout. This book exposes the harsh realities of low morale and high turnover, presenting a dynamic system designed to cultivate true accountability and sustainable growth.

Today, the economic environment is global, highly sophisticated, and in continuous flux. Thus, the challenge for business leaders is to stay ahead of market flow and change, in order to gain competitive advantage. Creating Competitive Advantage explores why this pioneering can be the safest and best course for organizations to get ahead and guides leaders on how to forecast trends without increasing risk. It introduces the new concepts of market flow visualization and the line of probability, pioneering the safe course, and analytically supported intuition.

Become an autodidact: Target higher grades, better job prospects, more goals achieved, and the key to unlocking all doors in life. Embarking on anything new is daunting and scary. That’s why you need a blueprint to point you in the right direction and make sure that you are moving forward.