Business Strategy

To make profitable investment decisions you need to be able to read and analyze financial statements. The fundamentals of ratio analysis are important skills for any investor, executive/manager, and entrepreneur/small business to grow. Without it, you won't know what your margin profile is, or how leveraged a stock/business is, or even if you're making cash flow. I'll teach you how to analyze any stock or business and be able to tell how it is performing right away.

You have a great product. You have top-notch talent. You have a process that’s been carefully mapped out. So, what’s missing? Executive, speaker, and leadership authority Billy Ray Taylor points to a lack of clarity on strategy that makes it impossible for your employees to understand how their activities fit within the company’s overall vision and to take true ownership of their careers. In this groundbreaking guide, Taylor reveals how his proprietary LinkedX Process can help your organization cultivate extreme ownership at every level, from top management to front-line employees.

Modern portfolio theory has failed investors. A change in direction is long overdue. In Getting Back to Business, dividend-investing guru Daniel Peris proposes a radical new approach - radical in that it does away with MPT in favor of a more intuitive, common-sense approach practiced by business people in their own affairs everyday: cash returns on cash investments.

What's the secret to wowing your customers while maintaining a loyal and dedicated workforce? Drawing upon time-tested strategies that have propelled Enterprise, the nation's number-one car-rental company, from a single location in St. Louis to a $9-billion global powerhouse, noted business author Kirk Kazanjian reveals how your company can consistently outperform and outsmart the competition.

This audiobook outlines how you might use Lean to do more with less within your recruitment process. This audiobook is used to remind ourselves again that the core idea of Lean is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste.

Best-selling authors and business experts Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia O'Connell contend that most companies, both digital and brick-and-mortar, B2B or B2C, are not designed for service - to provide an experience that matches a customer's expectations with every interaction and serves the company's needs. When customers have more choices than ever before, study after study reveals that it's the experience that makes the difference.

The extraordinary breakthrough management program - heralded by GE, Motorola, and AlliedSignal - that is sweeping corporate America with its unprecedented ability to achieve superior financial results. Six Sigma is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions, and dramatic improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of any size. The darling of Wall Street, it has become the mantra of Fortune 500 boardrooms around the world because it works.

At some point, every early-stage start-up needs to stop being a secret and start telling people. As your engineering and development work begins to take shape, building fast attention and strong demand become essential—and just buying ads won't be enough. Matthews provides frameworks, examples, and interviews that reinforce the book’s central thesis: Marketing is a discipline, not just an activity. The book offers practical, jargon-free ideas that seamlessly blend marketing fundamentals with the functional realities of fast-paced, growth-focused start-ups.

When Ashton Kutcher first heard about 50 Cent's nine-figure Vitaminwater windfall in 2007, the actor realized he'd been missing out. He soon followed the rapper's formula - seeking equity instead of cash for endorsement deals - but with a twist: as the first person to top one million Twitter followers, Kutcher leveraged his social reach to accumulate stakes in a vast range of user-hungry tech startups. A decade later, Kutcher is perhaps the brightest in a firmament of star investors from Beyoncé and Jay-Z to Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez.

It's no secret that steering a business has become dramatically more complex and uncertain in our modern era. Constant exploration of new territory by teams is the name of the game. Yet most companies are stuck with yesterday's approach to problem solving. Having reached the highest levels of the Fortune 500, digital disrupter Atif Rafiq has written Decision Sprint to pull the curtain back on the hidden management systems within your organization that impact how people think, collaborate, and make decisions.

Go from SEO beginner to pro with the help of this powerful guide! Do you want to master the online SEO landscape in 2020? Looking for the best, most up-to-date solutions to get you started? Written for the beginner, this powerful book uncovers the little-known secrets of SEO, arming you with the tools you need to break into this field, grow your online business, and appear on the first page of Google. Covering the best strategies, along with a wealth of tips and tricks, now you can get started with SEO no matter your level of experience.

This book is a complete beginners guide to fully grasping the ways of utilising pay per click advertising to have a wider customer reach and expand your business. It explains how to use tools such as Google Analytics and search engine optimisation to achieve more reaches on search engines when keywords are typed and how to apply the use of Google, Facebook, and YouTube into a combination as a single strategy.

Duty of Care: An Executive's Guide for Corporate Boards in the Digital Era offers a much-needed guide for board directors and leaders who need to get up to speed and close their digital knowledge gap in order to make the right decisions about digital technology investment and deployments. Written in easy-to-understand language, this audiobook targets directors and executives who want to protect themselves from risks ranging from massive cyber security breaches to digital infrastructure investment mistakes.

Balanced scorecards and operational dashboards measure organizational performance, and Microsoft Excel is the tool used worldwide to create these scorecards and dashboards. This book covers time-proven step-by-step processes on how to guide executive teams and managers in creating scorecards and dashboards. It then teaches Excel developers how to create those scorecards and dashboards. This is the only book that converts theory into practice.

"The Art of War", by the Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, was written in fifth century BC and remains one of the most influential strategy treatises of all time. It was held as the most important military treatise for 1500 years, and has now a pervasive influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond. The ancient wisdom of this ultimate guide to combat strategy is indeed applicable in all areas of life by anyone willing to ensure every kind of victory.

This book takes an entertaining approach to teaching practical strategies for success in everyday decision-making. Its 101 lessons can change your life by teaching you to see competition from a completely new perspective. The book is full of stories, jokes, and quotes based on strategic principles that go back 2,500 years to Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

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When should you rebrand your professional services firm, and how do you know if you’re ready? Bold Brand™ is a framework and best-practices approach to help professional services firms identify a niche, position themselves within that niche, and build a compelling brand. In this book, author Josh Miles walks you through a proven process that will show you how to find your niche, position the business, and develop a Bold Brand.

Winfluence, by award-winning digital strategist Jason Falls, is the authoritative book about influencer marketing from the perspective of businesses and brands. An invaluable guidebook for marketing managers, small business owners, marketing consultants and agencies alike, the book explains how influencers came to be, how they came to be so powerful, why so many brands are counting on influencer marketing for business success, and how anyone who is not, now can.

The Art of Military Strategy: Lessons from Sun Tzu, Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte introduces listeners to the leadership, strategies, and battle exploits of these three great men. With this audiobook, you’ll understand how they influenced their generations and the impact they've had on the history of the world.