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1) Joy at work
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Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most "fun" workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today's bottom-line corporate world? Could it even turn a profit? Well, imagine no more.
In Joy at Work, Dennis W. Bakke tells the...
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The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. Many translations have been made, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than other martial artists and people across East Asia. For instance, some foreign business leaders find its discussion of conflict and taking the advantage to be relevant to their work in a business context....
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From venture capitalist Ben Wiener comes a rollicking debut novel that artfully blends business strategy with murder mystery, and keeps you guessing to the very end.
Addie Morita, a frustrated young crime researcher, finally gets her big career break when a serial killer targets her successful former classmates from an elite San Francisco Bay Area college. Addie must match wits with both the taunting killer and the intimidating Special Agent assigned...
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Time has become a precious commodity, so business leaders who can save their customers' time more effectively than competitors do will win their loyalty. This book shows how it's done. Business survival requires valuing what customers value-and in our overworked and distraction-rich era, customers value their time above all else. Real-time companies beat their rivals by being faster and more responsive in meeting customer needs. To become a real-time...
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Most organizations manage risk using Enterprise Risk Management, which looks at past exposures or actuarial assessments to identify calculable and predictable threats. But the world is changing so quickly, and in such unexpected ways, that executives need to tackle risk head-on as an integral part of their strategic planning process.
Strategic Risk Management is a far more forward-looking approach that emphasizes future potential over past actions-it's...
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Businesses worry about new technologies, but customers are the ultimate disruptors-Suman Sarkar offers bold strategies for making sure you understand your customers and keep up with their ever-changing needs.
Disruption-the brutal roiling of markets, the decline of long-established brands and products, and the rise of new upstarts-drives business failure and success. Most people think technology causes disruption, but technology merely enables it....
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The proven, effective strategy for reinventing your business in the age of ever-present disruption
Disruption by digital technologies? That's not a new story. But what is new is the "wise pivot," a replicable strategy for harnessing disruption to survive, grow, and be relevant to the future. It's a strategy for perpetual reinvention across the old, now, and new elements of any business.
Rapid recent advances in technology are forcing leaders in...
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In today's hypercompetitive business environment, the difference between winning and losing is often slight. It's like a race, where the fastest runner who crosses the line just One Step Ahead of the pack is victorious-and the number two finisher is quickly forgotten. This insightful book, packed with proven concepts, shows you how to keep your organization in front of the competition. Using his decades of global business experience, Nicholas J. Webb...
9) Pinnacle
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Turn your business into a category of one in your industry.
Do you own a small business with more than a handful of employees? Are you frustrated that your organization has flatlined? Do you feel drained by working long hours and only dreaming of having an energized team ready to step up and lead? Do you nurse an ambition to scale your business into one that dominates its niche? Are you concerned that time is running out and you may never fulfill...
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CRISIS IS A GIFT. USE IT TO OPEN YOUR MIND AND INDUCE CHANGE AND GROWTH.
The Gift of Crisis is a roadmap of proven-in-practice steps for all organizations to properly use any crisis to reset and redefine their purpose and business model, align their stakeholders and society, and use innovation and technology to grow exponentially and help the planet become a better home.
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In a recent Fast Company article, nine CEOs said the biggest challenges their companies face are all related to change. Change is a constant need and a constant challenge for every organization-large or small, for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental. Is there a way to make it easier? If you're trying to lift something heavy, it helps to have a lever. In this book, Jake Jacobs provides eight levers that can transform the typical change process into...
12) Stratagem
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Have you ever attended a strategy meeting and wondered whether everyone in the forum understood what strategy meant? If you have, you are not alone. Interestingly, many such meetings roll on smoothly with impressive outcomes. That phenomenon is the ninth wonder of the world. Some participants probably spend many hours after the meeting engrossed in self-doubt or guilt, depending upon how loudly they spoke during the session. A cold or hot beverage...
13) Stealing Genius
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Improvement is not innovation…and innovation is essential if your aim is to survive in today's business environment.
Stealing Genius lays the foundation for a dramatic and long-overdue shift in 21st-century strategic marketing and branding. Most executives and decision-makers are now focused on improving what they already have. However, fixating on improvement in today's world is a dangerous path-one that ultimately leads to commoditization and...
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Lead change amid constant turbulence and disruption.
Get more of the ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you successfully transform your organization.
With insights from leading experts including John Kotter, Tim Brown, and Roger Martin, this book will inspire you to:
• Master...
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This book equips consultants with the knowledge they need to advance to more senior positions in their firms or build successful independent practices. Advanced consultants address applications and audiences that junior consultants cannot-they work with CEOs, boards, and senior executive teams on issues like strategy, organizational design, merger integration, digital disruption, culture change, and system-wide transformation. Bill Pasmore draws on...
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Former Procter & Gamble Vice President for IT and Shared Services, Tony Saldanha gives you the keys to a successful digital transformation: a proven five-stage model and a disciplined process for executing it. Digital transformation is more important than ever now that we're in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds are becoming ever more blurred. But fully 70 percent of digital transformations...
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Stop wasting your advertising money!
It's easy to feel frustrated and disheartened when you're trying to grow your small business, pouring precious cash into advertising channels and funnels with little or no return. But you can change your business's fortune with a marketing plan that places your customers at the very heart of your business. Marketing = Customers + Heart is more than a marketing book, it's your way of business. If you follow this...
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How did you decide on your career path? If you are stuck in a job that takes more than it gives, starting your career, or reentering the workforce recognize that close to 90% of the working population does not describe themselves as passionate about what they do for a living. The old way of career planning has not worked, but it does not have to be that way for you. This simple four-step career and life planning process uses accurate behavioral science...
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Do you need help to reap the benefits of digital capabilities? Are you seeking a sensible path to integrating new technology and ideas into your proven business processes?
In the digital age, steering your business to benefit from digital technologies is not only a differentiator but is increasingly becoming key to profitable growth. Smart, prudent implementation and deployment are necessary to pull off the change successfully.
This book reflects...
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Have you ever thought about how to plan in a way that truly enables you to accomplish your goals? Most people don't plan. We don't plan because we have never been taught HOW to plan. Without a plan it's difficult, and sometimes impossible, to achieve your goals.
The secret to accomplishing anything is to utilize bite-sized plans that move a person or organization through small steps that can be tracked on a daily and weekly basis. The smaller...
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