Strategic Management

In What's Your Moonshot? trend and innovation strategist John Sanei explains how to ask the bigger, bolder, more courageous questions that will help you thrive - rather than merely survive - in our exponentially changing times. With a future-focused victor mindset, Sanei decodes the mega-trends that are reshaping human behavior and the way we do business - not to mention, the way we live our lives.

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.

Learn the 25 keys to a great business plan, including writing the company's mission, identifying marketing opportunities, calculating appropriate financial ratios, and projecting growth rates, that will help guide your company's expansion and attract necessary funding. Business Planning is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series.

The tumultuous changes of the past decade, including China's economic rise and the financial meltdown, were just the beginning. The next cataclysmic wave is surging relentlessly ahead, demanding leaders who can steer their companies through complexity and change. Leadership 2030 uncovers six megatrends that will dramatically impact organizations' markets, cultures, systems, and processes.

How bad will the current economy get? According to Eric Janszen, we could be facing an unemployment rate of over 10 percent; half of all retail stores boarded up; skeletons of unfinished buildings in our cities; and tax revenues down by 30 percent, leading to big cuts in government services. Sounds grim, but the good news is that this crisis will open the door to a saner economic future if we recognize the opportunity to correct decades of bad policy.

In Data Analytics: Using Big Data Analytics for Business to Increase Profits and Create Happy Customers, Matthew Adams reveals the reality of the big data analytics world, and outlines clear and actionable steps that will equip the listener with the tools needed for this next phase of human evolution. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to use everyday data analytics for business to increase profitability and customer satisfaction.

How will we live well in a super-networked, information-soaked, yet predictably irrational world? The only way to know is to understand how the way we think is changing. As economist Tyler Cowen boldly shows in Create Your Own Economy, the way we think now is changing more rapidly than it has in a very long time. Not since the Industrial Revolution has a man-made creation - in this case, the World Wide Web - so greatly influenced the way our minds work and our human potential.

Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth rates across the Western world, nations are no longer willing to sacrifice national interests for global growth, nor are their leaders able - or willing - to sell the idea of pursuing a global agenda of prosperity to their citizens.

With this guide, you can produce your own professional business plan without hiring a consultant. This is a fast, quick, and proven method of creating a business plan that will allow you to (i) approach potential investors, or (ii) show to stakeholders of the business - employees, banks, shareholders, etc.

As individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused on forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter. Yet they should be asking what the global economy will look like in the years to come—where will the long-term risks and opportunities arise? These are the questions that Daniel Altman confronts in his provocative and indispensable book.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Sightline spells out the why and the how of collaborative strategy building. It pragmatically explains how to establish a clear destination with your team, while staying flexible about the routes you take to get there. With an emphasis on community building organizations, it’s a go-to resource for leaders craving clarity and conviction when responsiveness and adaptability are also required. 

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.

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.

Discover how to transform from a traditional to a digitally driven organization based on DBS Bank, which has been recognized by Harvard as one of the top 10 digital transformations of the last decade and as the world's best bank by the most prestigious banking awards. World’s Best Bank provides you with a strategic guide to leveraging digitalization and create better experiences for your customers. It’s based on unique and exclusive interviews of DBS C-suite conducted in person by the author.