Career Strategy

Running a business can be discouraging, overwhelming, and lonely. Everything looks good from the outside, but on the inside, you’re struggling to take your business to the next level while still living your best life. What you need is a holistic strategy for running a stable company that makes money and allows you to sleep well at night. This might seem like a fairy tale, but it’s not. After years of research and honing their strategies, Kathryn and Michael K. Redman have developed a framework that offers you the dream with the means of implementation.

Whether you're a solar sales professional, facility manager, engineer, or clean energy entrepreneur, Wired for Sun is your go-to guide for navigating the complex world of commercial solar development. Written by industry veteran Tim Montague, host of the Clean Power Hour podcast, this comprehensive playbook demystifies every step of the solar project development process—from qualifying leads and conducting site assessments, to modeling cash flow, navigating policy incentives, and closing deals.

A journalistic quest to discover the secrets of the best talent hunters, revealing how they spot superstars before anybody else. Why are some people so much better than everyone else at spotting future stars? How do the best talent pickers in any field recognize future greatness--the subtle...

This delightful corporate fable explores the challenge of managing the increasing diversity of the workforce and capturing the talent, energy, and commitment of all employees. This new, expanded edition includes self-quizzes, how-to's, resources, and strategies for peacocks and penguins alike...

Henry Kissinger, uno de los principales estrategas políticos del siglo xx, analiza en este nuevo libro los perfiles de seis de los líderes mundiales más fascinantes e influyentes del pasado reciente: Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew y Margaret Thatcher.

In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area - not with formulating strategy, but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans. It doesn't have to be that way. Building on their breakthrough works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits from your carefully formulated business strategy.

Este libro consigna en sus páginas ideas innovadoras que cuestionan las ideas obsoletas de la planeación estratégica y construye una teoría desde los fundamentos acerca de ¿Qué es una estrategia?, ¿Cómo practicarla en las empresas? y ¿Cómo todos podemos ser estrategas abrazando la naturaleza emergente de la misma?

#1 New York Times bestselling authors Daniel Goleman, Jack and Suzy Welch, engage in a powerful discussion of what makes a great leader in this original audio program. The ideas expressed in Goleman's Emotional Intelligence decades ago have taken on a life of their own. They spurred a movement...

This concise audiobook is based on Mr. Drucker's summary of The Effective Executive done at the request of Harvard Business Review and is now one of their best selling published works. This article is a perfect way to learn about the subject broadly in a short period of time. Unlike many articles of this kind, summarizing a book's contents, this article was written and crafted by the author himself.

*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* Think differently and find the courage to challenge the status quo with this mindset-shifting guide to meaningful change. For most of our lives, we are encouraged to trudge along the well-worn paths of those who have come before us. We learn the rules – in our...

Green to Gold is an essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from it. This audio explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business. Based on the authors' years of experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders around the world, Green to Gold, shows how companies generate lasting value.

The "Step Up, Step Back" approach suggests leaders need to step up and do more than they typically do in the early stages of the change - in specific ways and at specific times; and then step back and do less than they typically do in the later stages of the change - again, in specific ways, at specific times. The result is not only change that sticks, but empowered, motivated managers who can get on with delivering change, without needing ongoing input or cover from leaders.

A business strategy consists of certain guiding principles that helps an organization make quick and accurate decisions. Since an organization is nothing without its people, strategy is essentially human centric. It is about how people in an organization should make decisions and allocate...

Two leaders in transformation and customer success deliver an inspiring and exciting new approach to succeeding in an increasingly decentralized and digital-first world. In the book, you'll learn how to demolish organizational silos once and for all, allowing resources to flow across networks, ecosystems, and communities. The authors explain the seven principles underlying their unique and effective "Boundless" paradigm: connection, integration, decentralization, mobility, continuity, autonomy, and shared success.

We are in the midst of an unprecedented degree of technology-driven change at the same time that society faces challenges more complex than our organizations and we as individuals have been prepared to handle. Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence is for leaders who want to create a better future within this context of change and supplies a balance of historical and theoretical context with practical frameworks for beginning to create a more human future today.

Are you ready to enter the ring and fight for your business's success? In "Business Is War", Elliott Forman reveals the key battles every business owner must conquer to survive and thrive in today's competitive landscape. With a no-nonsense approach and drawing from his extensive experience as a boxer, military veteran, and successful entrepreneur, Forman breaks down the 12 crucial Battles of Business™ that can make or break your venture.

It's not easy being an IT manager. There are constant staffing issue, budget issues, project issues, and the challenge of keeping your management informed about what is going on. The one thing that too many of us end up overlooking as we try to accomplish all of these things is that we have one more management job to do: Manage our careers.

I determined to learn everything I could about Google SEO and getting on the first page of the world's largest search engine. I read all the SEO books and everything I could find about link building and website marketing. I put together an SEO process for every post I wrote and the results were astounding. I tripled my Google search traffic over the next year and doubled my monthly blogging income. Best yet, using it frequently means I've perfected the process and now it takes very little time to rank a post on Google.

Cybersecurity involves people, policy, and technology. Yet most books and academic programs cover only technology. Hence the implementation of cybersecurity as a people powered perpetual innovation and productivity engine is not done. People think they can buy cybersecurity as a product when in fact the discipline is the modern practice of digital business strategy. People also equate cybersecurity with information security or security alone. However, security is a state, while cybersecurity is a process.

How much of innovation is inspiration, and how much is hard work? The answer lies somewhere in the middle, says management thinker Peter Drucker. In this HBR classic from 1985, he argues that innovation is real work that can and should be managed like any other corporate function. Success is more likely to result from the systematic pursuit of opportunities than from a flash of genius. Indeed, most innovative business ideas arise through the methodical analysis of seven areas of opportunity.