Strategic Planning

Every owner will exit his or her business one day. In this fast-paced, easy read, we explore the critical strategies and tools that pave the way for a successful exit - on your terms, and we help you avoid the pitfalls that can derail your best intentions. Straight Talk will help you set the foundation for your succession, whether you plan to exit in one year, five years, or 15 years.

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.

「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？

Many people dream of a carefree retirement, but for most, the reality is a constant worry about financial stability. The traditional 9 to 5 job often isn't enough to secure a comfortable future, especially with the rising cost of living and uncertain economic conditions. Without a strategic plan, many face the risk of outliving their savings, forcing them to continue working well into their golden years.

Business leaders are continually told they need to embrace digital disruption wholeheartedly to thrive in the 21st century. Legacy companies, we hear, are all doomed to fail unless they double down on the latest digital innovations, and disruptors are ordained to take over the world. Digital innovation is the answer to everything. False! Nothing in life or business is ever that simple.

In the world of business, success is hard-earned and requires discipline, persistence, and a proven framework. That's where The 100 Rules of Business comes in. This comprehensive guide is grounded in rigorous actions that will help you build and grow a successful business in any niche. But the key to success is taking action. That's why these 100 rules are designed as actionable steps that you can follow in every stage of your business journey.

This audiobook presents a new approach to risk management that enables executives to think systematically and strategically about future risks and deal proactively with threats to their competitive advantages in an evermore volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.

A team of expert innovation strategists delivers an exciting and insightful collection of strategies, techniques, and frameworks for scaling your next big, audacious idea into a concrete product or service. Each proven and tested strategy contained in the book has been categorized to make it easy to find and implement when you need it most. You’ll learn how and where to start, when to bet big, how to invest, when to play the long game, what to communicate, and much more.

Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what it was. How had our models so utterly failed us? To answer this question, Alan Greenspan embarked on a rigorous and far-reaching multiyear examination of how Homo economicus predicts the economic future, and how it can predict it better.

We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you learn the most important ideas in leadership and management, feel confident in your business classes, and be ready to thrive in any role you take on. This book will inspire you to: succeed by playing to your strengths; learn to be more persuasive; give killer presentations; perfect your business-writing skills; find your authentic voice and leadership style; and build a purposeful career.

Leveraging more than two decades of experience organizing innovation tournaments in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, from Buenos Aires to Kuwait City, Shanghai to Moscow, and with many Fortune 500 companies, two renowned researchers, entrepreneurs, and the foremost experts on innovation tournaments offer a template that you can use to generate winning ideas that will drive great outcomes―whatever your challenges, whatever your business.

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.

Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics.

Brenda, Kevin, and the kids were stuck...Brenda had taken a 20 percent pay cut and was told by her boss she should feel "lucky to still have a job". But they were already living paycheck to paycheck. How were they going to get by with 20 percent less income? Move. Brenda was offered a great job six states away. They'd have to sell the house, though. But they didn't have much equity. The few offers they received were lower than what they owed. Can't sell a house if you can't pay off your loan.

◆「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！

In Getting to Aha!, Darshan Mehta explores the nature of insights: what they are, how to uncover them, and how to use them to drive innovation and audience engagement. He surveys the trends driving modern consumers’ behaviors and discusses how technology is shaping the way buyers interact with brands and directly impact their performance. He also shares the steps brands can take to access and leverage the knowledge gained from external and internal audiences alike.

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.

En este episodio te contamos por qué la creación de procesos da flojera y cómo manejarla. Así como de la creatividad y la espontaneidad que surgen desde los procesos.

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.

Grant McCracken, an anthropologist who now trains some of the world's biggest companies and consulting firms, argues that the CCO would keep a finger on the pulse of contemporary cultural trends, from sneakers to slow food to preppies, while developing a systematic understanding of the deep waves of culture in America and the world. The CCOs professionalism would allow the corporation to see coming changes, even when they only exist as the weakest of signals.