Career Planning

Why are some products and services so much better received than others? And how do some organisations manage to create these superior solutions time and time again? Because they ask not only what to make, but how to make it. Written for leaders, managers and creators, The Right How delves into the fundamental question of how to strategically design products, services and touchpoints that make a company stand out and achieve the highest levels of success.

Now more than ever is the time to have a contingency plan, as storms come in many forms! Snow, flood, pandemic, economic uncertainty, and even social unrest, all require a plan. Contingency planning is not about impending doom, it is about continuing to operate during unfavorable circumstances. Be the one left standing, while your competitors are scrambling.

Noted sales trainer Stephan Schiffman succinctly describes 25 effective sales strategies that will build your customer base and increase your sales. This audio program will boost your communications, planning, knowledge, rainmaking, visibility, and confidence. It's a wonderful tool for new salespeople who must first learn the basics of selling, and for any established salesperson who needs a refresher!

Are you exhausted from the countless number of resumes you have submitted to various different jobs? Are you tired of not being able to land an interview? Well look no further! This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to craft effective resumes that are guaranteed to land you an interview, and ultimately get you the job. If you're looking for an in-depth guide about resume writing, this is the perfect book for you. Apply the ideas included in this book and you will have high chances of getting hired.

The world stands at a massive pivot point. A paradigm shift not only the way we work and live, but in the core philosophy of culture itself. Today multiple trends and megatrends are converging, bringing about a scale of change not seen in centuries. In this title Chris Marshall, futurist and behavioral scientist as well as head of investment strategy at Dragon Investment Managers, lays out a framework of change, as well as pointing out how we can get better at seeing this change occurring. How innovation plays out and why in the coming era curiosity may well be a superpower.

Wie erreichen große und kleine Unternehmen weltweit trotz vielfältiger Hindernisse herausragende Leistungen? Wie wurde eine neuseeländische Stahlfirma innerhalb eines Jahres zum führenden Unternehmen in ihrem Bereich? Wie konnte ein japanischer Hausbauer während der Wirtschaftskrise dennoch florieren? Wie hat eine südafrikanische Platin-Mine seine Sicherheitsleistung auf 57 Prozent in einem Jahr verbessern können? All diese Leistungen waren nur möglich durch die konsequente Anwendung von drei Gesetzen.

A quick-and-easy guide to core business and career concepts - no MBA required. The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete, accurate monitoring of expenses. In today's business world, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books turn the important details of best practices into tedious listening that would put even a CEO to sleep. From hiring and firing to strategizing and calculating revenues, Negotiating 101 is an easy-to-understand road map of today's complex business world.

Take control and transform your business. In "How to Get Your Business Flywheel Spinning", financial expert Eric Rigby reveals the repeatable process that has helped countless entrepreneurs achieve their ultimate vision, whether scaling or selling their business. Rigby's unique "flywheel" system will revolutionize how you run your company, empowering you to delegate responsibility to your team, boost profits, minimize taxes, and gain the freedom to focus on a big-picture strategy.

En este libro, un auténtico best seller mundial, Richard P. Rumelt muestra cómo acabar con la palabrería fácil y los objetivos a medias de las «malas estrategias». Nos proporciona un método claro y sumamente eficaz para alcanzar el objetivo clave de cualquier liderazgo: concebir y ejecutar una estrategia de éxito en el mundo real.

「答えがないのに、ゴールを示すべき」 というジレンマを、誰もが抱えている

そのビジョンは、「現在の自分たち」を勇気づけ、 主体性と創造性を解放しようとしているか？ 日々のプロセスを問い直すものとなっているか？

「コミュニティを制すものはビジネスを制す。」顧客と企業をつなぐ「コミュニティ」形成の有効性・活用法を、大手企業を中心に200社以上へのコミュニティ導入実績を持つ筆者がノウハウとともに解説。

Real-time business gives companies the ability to monitor and react to changes and address problems as they occur. But no matter how sophisticated their information-gathering and data mining systems are, they're still playing catch-up. In The Power to Predict, Ranadive forecasts the next step in achieving breakthrough business performance, a new approach he calls Predictive Business: the ability to anticipate business problems and opportunities and to act preemptively.

Do you often look at how your organization runs its projects and wish things could be done better? Are you a project manager who is tired of poor planning and organization of projects? You are about to learn exactly what it takes to become one of the most effective and efficient project managers around!

Ter acesso à informação nunca foi tão fácil. Apesar disso, enfrenta-se no dia a dia o desafio de saber o que é relevante em meio a um volume cada vez maior de dados. Entre as diferentes notícias, opiniões e pesquisas que chegam ao conhecimento da população, como identificar o que é útil no momento de traçar um plano, de se preparar para determinado acontecimento, de acertar uma previsão? Para o economista Nate Silver, garantir a qualidade da informação é o primeiro passo.

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.

◆「知りませんでした」「無知でした」「そんなことできるのですか……」「倒産させない会社を作ること」をミッションに500社以上の会社を経営危機から救ってきた税理士が、経営者が頭を悩ませるリアルな53の「選択」に答える！

Whether you or someone you know is in college or just starting out, gainfully employed (and concerned about career ambiguity), underemployed, or have been downsized, rightsized, laid off, fired, cast off, or otherwise in career transition, Becoming Generation Flux is for you.

Most Americans have not inherited wealth or a successful business that can set them up for life. That means most Americans are destined to live with financial worries and concerns for the rest of their lives, right? Wrong! With his entertaining and informative style, New York Times best-selling author, actor, and financial pundit Ben Stein refutes the current notion that the corporate system is rigged against ordinary citizens and explains how corporate stock ownership is the best system ever devised.

The future is not what it used to be. In this volatile era, with the world changing rapidly, people are more curious than ever to know what lies ahead. Will relentless consumerism end up destroying our planet? Or can science and technology allow us to innovate our way out of trouble? Perhaps a greater social consciousness and community-based living will take over or, conversely, the competition for limited resources may result in everyone fighting for themselves.

What enables great corporate leaders to detect signals that their industry, or perhaps the entire world, is about to change? How are they able to place their companies in a position to capitalize on that change? And how can you become one of those extraordinary people? It boils down to one word - vision. Leaders who lacked it have often guided their companies to obsolescence and failure. The rare leaders who cultivated a strong vision have disrupted industries, created new ones, and remade the world.