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Good to Great by Jim Collins | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review Preview: What does it take to make something-an activity, a work of art, a company-great? What are the factors that distinguish the merely good from the truly great? In Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't, Jim Collins offers insight into what makes a business truly great…
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Every day, legacy business models and traditional best practices are transforming around us, driven by technologies like AI, blockchain, 5G, and quantum computing that are radically altering our future vision. As a leader and innovator, you're facing an accelerating pace of change that makes it more difficult than ever to navigate the murky future ahead. You need to cut through the noise and hype, but without a playbook to guide you, it's difficult...
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Using the simple visual analogy of "moving rocks" and "pushing sand" the author creates a model that helps business owners, executives, and entrepreneurs understand the connection between strategy and execution while giving guidance on what to do about it. It's easy to follow, compelling, and very practical. Better yet, readers won't get caught up in case studies or examples that are interesting but not applicable to their situation. Rock & Sand takes...
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The airline industry is in freefall with COVID-19 restrictions closing international borders. Experts predict that half of the world's airlines could face bankruptcy. What should the airlines do? International consultant and author Ron Bartsch applies 20-20 Thinking and comes up with the solution-start a new domestic airline.
So much about our world has changed beyond recognition in 2020 as the coronavirus upends our lives. We are now faced with...
66) 1+1=7
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Los directivos deben saber que hay una riqueza oculta dentro de sus organizaciones y que la pueden encontrar en tres elementos: en su gente, en su creatividad y en la interacción optimizada que se da entre su gente. En 1+1=7, los directivos de las empresas son orientados para descubrir recursos ocultos y aprovechar mejor las inversiones que les permitan obtener un mayor valor y retorno de la inversión (RSI).
Según el autor Baldwin Tom, muchos ejecutivos...
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Complément idéal aux manuels de base des premiers cours de gestion, cet ouvrage présente les concepts et les outils principaux nécessaires pour concevoir et réaliser les analyses sur lesquelles repose la stratégie d'une entreprise en quête d'avantage concurrentiel.
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Planning today is plagued by a lack of imagination. It's often difficult, when working with a business, organization, or any group of people, to upend traditional thinking and unlock new ideas and new possibilities. If you are a strategic planner, or anyone charged with managing growth or facilitating change, it is important to add to your arsenal tools that will allow you to break unhealthy groupthink, avoid old patterns, and escape narrow safe...
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Future Search is among the best-established and most effective methods for enabling people to make and implement ambitious plans. It has been used to redesign IKEA's product pipeline in Sweden, develop an integrated economic development plan in Northern Ireland, and demobilize child soldiers in Southern Sudan. Written by the originators, this book is the most up-to-date account of this powerful change method. This third edition is completely revised,...
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Think tanks and research organizations set out to influence policy ideas and decisions-a goal that is key to the very fabric of these organizations. And yet, the ways that they actually achieve impact or measure progress along these lines remains fuzzy and underexplored. What Should Think Tanks Do? A Strategic Guide for Policy Impact is the first practical guide that is specifically tailored to think tanks, policy research, and advocacy organizations....
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Application of Lean principles to office processes is now established as an improvement method. However, it is tempting to take the approach that has been successful in the factory and apply it to the office without considering the nuances of this different setting. This book provides solutions to challenges such as:
• Lack alignment of strategy
• Understanding customer value as it applies to office processes
• Recognising personal benefit to...
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Strategy essentially involves competing to be unique. It is the key to achieving goals through proper planning, resourcing, implementation and evaluation of various strategy management tactics. The strategy is essentially the choices an organization makes, that defines what markets to be served and how to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The strategy involves taking basic directional decisions for organizational purposes and missions....
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Over the last fifteen years, every major aspect of our lives has changed because of Facebook. You may not like Facebook, but you can't deny its success. And, to a large degree, that success stems from the "move fast" ethos. The entire culture of Facebook is, built for speed.
Move Fast is an exploration of modern software strategies and tactics through the lens of Facebook. Relying on in-depth interviews with more than two dozen Facebook engineers,...
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Strategy is only as brilliant as its execution. Strategy execution is the last competitive advantage, and strength, speed and agility in execution are more important than a perfectly mapped-out strategy based on feasibility and predictability.
80% how-to with 50 innovation methods and new business models.
Strategy = Execution is for leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs who view strategy execution as their principal job instead of strategy definition....
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The author attended his first big investment conference and heard a prominent hedge fund manager predict that low-cost, systematic investment strategies would become available to the public. This would lead to a sea change in the investment management industry.
#2 The author was a finance rookie, and could not understand why experienced investors would not be excited...
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Rob McMaster poured his heart and soul into his father's business for 38 years, but at 54 was concerned that he lacked a successor. Intent on early succession planning, Rob established a formal Employee Share Ownership Plan to transfer ownership of his company to his employees. Then the unthinkable happened: Rob was struck with severe and debilitating health challenges just as the economy faltered and manufacturing industries were struggling.
When...
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Scenario planning helps organization leaders, executives and decision-makers envision and develop strategies for multiple possible futures instead of just one. It enables organizations to become resilient and agile, carefully calibrating their responses and adapting quickly to new circumstances in a fast-changing environment. This book is the most comprehensive treatment to date of the scenario planning process. Unlike existing books it offers a thorough...
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Since early 2013, we have been helping companies understand how digital has a potentially disruptive impact on their future. We advise CEO's from news media, radio and TV, banks, HR, automotive, retailers and many other industries on digital transformation. As international economists, consulting companies and opinion makers are increasingly talking about the importance of digital disruption, we are starting to feel the acceleration in interest in...
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It's getting tougher to develop a winning formula in today's business world. Competition is fierce. Customers are demanding, fickle and unpredictable and employees are looking for insightful and caring leadership. In response, extreme energy in most organizations is spent on trying to develop the "perfect" strategy or Plan that, due to its superb strategic essence, is viewed by all as a "slam dunk" to succeed. Unfortunately, the Plan, regardless of...
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In Inclusion: STILL the Competitive Business Advantage, Shirley Engelmeier continues her contributions to thought leadership on the importance of inclusion in an environment that has been roiled with new discussion–and new dissent–amid rapidly changing demographics, continually emerging technology and a global economy that is continually shifting to favor newly emerging market powerhouses. Within this framework one thing remains a constant–the...
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