Strategic Management

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.

How do we stay safe? Should we? What if our attempts are exposing us even more to the very risks we are avoiding? Would acceptance of danger make us more secure? Is there such a thing as foolproof? In Foolproof, Greg Ip presents a macro theory of human nature and disaster that explains how we can keep ourselves safe in our increasingly dangerous world.

The Power of Strategic Influence is an Amazon number one best seller that will teach you how to build your personal influence in business, and make a positive impact on the world. The key? Focus not on what you get, but what you give. In 10 easy-to-follow steps called "Success Factors of Highly Influential Leaders", the guide shows you how to access, utilize, develop, expand, and, ultimately, constructively use your influence to help make the world a better place.

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.

For a period of almost 50 years, from 1945 until the early 1990s, higher education was on an ascent. These “golden years” saw the vast expansion of the opportunity to attend college with the coming of the community college system, the GI Bill, and generous state support that made college affordable for a new generation of upwardly mobile Americans.

The methods and techniques shared in this book have been used to help members of The Alternative Board (TAB) since 1990 when I started TAB. Since that time, over 25,000 business owner members have benefitted from the TAB system, which is currently operating in over 20 countries. Based on what we have experienced, it is undeniable that business owners universally face the same kinds of challenges in their businesses and their lives.

James Burstall runs one of the most successful TV production companies in the UK. But during his tenure at Argonon he has had to deal with a variety of existential crises. Through them all, he's managed to guide his team out the other side successfully. Whether it's been the credit crunch or terror attacks. Recessions. Natural disasters. Pandemics. The TV industry has felt the strain of these recurring events like all of us. And each time, James has put strategies in place in order to be prepared for the next time something like this happens. Now you can be prepared as well.

The principles shared in this book can be applied in both virtual and in-person work environments. Amidst the increasing acceptance of remote work, well-being, and motivation are vital foundational roots that demand a pH-balanced soil (i.e., a healthy work environment, employee engagement) and water (i.e., employee management, effective leaders) to thrive.

Despite the anticipated senior tsunami in population emerging across the nation, success in the senior living industry is not guaranteed. In this thought-provoking audiobook, management consultant Jill Johnson discusses the nine market forces that will influence on-going success in an industry over-saturated with competition and complexity. Market Forces offers insight on how these key trends influence the industry and the implications they may have on your occupancy, operations, programming, and desirability of your site.

In this insightful book, you will find the collective wisdom of 15 international thought leaders, scattered across three continents and multiple industries, as they share their best strategies for building influence and authority. Covering everything from video and print media to social media and consulting, Authority lets you inside the minds of experts who have built their own authority and helped countless others do the same.

Las empresas hoy en día se encuentran en alto riesgo: la incertidumbre económica, el desenfoque de sus negocios, la tolerancia a resultados mediocres y la falta de liderazgo las hacen más susceptibles a las crisis. En Viraje estratégico los consultores internacionales Carlos, Guillermo y Francisco comparten un método propio basado en la cultura corporativa latinoamericana y probado en cientos de empresas familiares que superaron sus dificultades y encontraron un nuevo camino de crecimiento y sostenibilidad.

In this discussion, Simpson outlines the core questions you can ask yourself to lessen short-term distractions and focus on strategic clarity.

In this discussion learn how to create a vision that includes a strategic attack to accomplish team and individual goals.

In this discussion, Simpson explains the importance of how to use specific goals to enhance strategic clarity.

In this discussion, learn how to seek strategic clarity and create your personal mission statement.

Since the groundbreaking work of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, the concept of the Balanced Scorecard has achieved increasing popularity in the business world. In this book, the authors draw on their extensive experience with scorecard projects to provide a step-by-step method for introducing the Balanced Scorecard into an organization. This book will provide senior and operational managers, consultants, and business academics with a comprehensive view of emerging Balanced Scorecard practice supported by both business advice and a theoretical foundation.

Using real-life practical experiences, serial entrepreneur and thought leader Faisal Hoque teams up with journalist Drake Baer to provide a personal and professional playbook that is part philosophy, part business, and part history. Everything Connects offers the wisdom of 2,500-year-old Eastern philosophies and the interconnected insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Couple that with Fortune 100 corporate cross pollination for creativity and startup thinking for how to adapt with ease, and you'll quickly discover that everything connects.

For many organizations, the word strategy conjures up endless ideas, concepts, and tools - while the intent is correct, the awful reality is most companies do not have a simple, common definition of strategy or a simple approach to make the big decisions. Too many PowerPoints, not enough one pagers that can be put into practice. The lack of a common approach to strategy frustrates executives, creates conflict where there is none, fast-tracks dubious alternatives, lengthens decision-making, and hampers the quality of the decisions that finally emerge.

With business practices changing on a daily basis, companies must create environments of speed and flexibility that will engage today's employees and allow radical ideas to thrive - because only those companies that move first and innovate fast will reap the financial rewards the e-world has to offer.

Multiplication by Subtraction explores the positive impacts of saying goodbye to wrong-fit team members who are no longer thriving in your organization. Wrong-fit people can negatively impact our productivity, results, teamwork, and reputation, and end up costing far more than we realize. This audiobook will give you the mindset to think more strategically about your team, the tools to use when things aren't working, and practical strategies to help shift people into roles for which they're a better fit.