Business Strategy

Even the best competitive strategies mean nothing if they can't be executed. Yet many organizations struggle when they move from defining a strategy to implementing it. Somehow, all the careful planning falls to the side, and leaders are left wondering how to pick up the pieces. The HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy is here to help. This book offers leaders and managers tips and advice for how to take even the most detailed strategy and apply it throughout their organizations.

The world's most successful businesses leaders understand that creating a shared social identity around their products and services is the most efficient path to scaling revenue, differentiating products, promoting customer success and retention, and seizing category ownership. The Business of Belonging is the playbook for doing just that. CMX founder David Spinks offers advice for creating community strategy, aligning it with your business objectives, and launching and managing a community of end users.

Almost one in four American working adults has a job that pays less than a living wage. Conventional wisdom says that’s how the world has to work. Bad jobs with low wages, minimal benefits, little training, and chaotic schedules are the only way companies can keep costs down and prices low. If companies were to offer better jobs, customers would have to pay more or companies would have to make less. But in The Good Jobs Strategy, Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, makes the compelling case that even in low-cost settings, leaving employees behind - with bad jobs - is a choice, not a necessity.

Expectations Investing offers a unique and powerful alternative for identifying value-price gaps. Rappaport and Mauboussin provide everything the listener needs to utilize the discounted cash flow model successfully. And they add an important twist: They suggest that rather than forecasting cash flows, investors should begin by estimating the expectations embedded in a company's stock price.

This brilliant adaptation of the ancient masterpiece The Art of War shows women how to use Sun Tzu's philosophy to win in every aspect of life. In the West, when we think of war, we imagine battle, casualties, brutality. But Sun Tsu, who wrote The Art of War 2,500 years ago, was Chinese, and their view of war is not about fighting. It is about determining the most efficient way of gaining victory with the least amount of conflict.

Red teaming. It is a practice as old as the Devil's Advocate, the 11th-century Vatican official charged with discrediting candidates for sainthood. Today, red teams - comprised primarily of fearless skeptics and those assuming the role of saboteurs who seek to better understand the interests, intentions, and capabilities of institutions or potential competitors - are used widely in both the public and private sector.

Once, the job of leaders was to identify problems and fix them, while leaving nonproblems alone. Today, the notion that the new way is always better than the old way—and that if you aren’t disrupting everything, you are losing—has come to constitute a new orthodoxy of business thinking. Whether it’s a merger or re-org or a new office layout, change has become the ultimate easy button for leaders, who pursue it with abandon, unleashing a torrent of disruption on employees. The result is life in the blender: a perpetual state of upheaval, uncertainty, and unease.

From early on, we are taught that getting a certain job is the only to get ahead, that we have to do well at school, that failure is embarrassing and to be avoided. We're so busy trying to follow these rules that we never stop and ask ourselves: What's my purpose? What do I really want? Simon Squibb is on a mission to change stranger's lives for the better. Here, he shares the hard-won life lessons from his years in the business world, plus his own personal life, and empowers listeners to identify their own meaningful goals.

Do you want to know how to find an insight for your brand, product or advertising campaign? This brief book unveils three simple steps to uncover the human insights and unlock universal truths that will give you a springboard for greater ideas. Leaders, strategists, consultants, comms planners, creatives and designers in any field can with this book have the advantage of having better insights to have better ideas. CONTENTS • Prologue • Introduction • A Brief History of Insights in Advertising • What is a TRUE Insight, Anyway? • The Insight Optic • Step One: Identify Your ...

In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student - and how he went on to found and run Mint Investment Management Company, one of the most profitable and largest quantitative hedge funds in the world.

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.

Recruiting Is Easy!: If You Approach It Like Sales And Marketing: By Kyle Patrick Smith has achieved a remarkable feat by being as Top #500 best seller in one of Amazon's categories. #154 Best Seller ★ in Internships (May 16, 2025). "Recruiting is Easy" explores HR's pivotal role in talent attraction and brand building, guiding professionals through strategic approaches to employee experience, community engagement, and partnerships. From crafting compelling employment propositions to fostering lasting relationships, this book empowers HR to elevate organizational success. With insights ...

Success in business is difficult. It takes an amazing amount of work to set up a new business and keep it alive in the long run. According to the US Small Business Administration, only half of all new businesses with employees survive five years. Long before thinking about startup financing or even what products to stock, you need to decide what your business name will be. Choosing your business’s name is not an easy task. Adopting the improper business name means doing all the hard work of starting a new business with a handicap. Before considering goods, prices, or promotions, you must ...

The New Factory Thinker • 2021 EditionYour Five-Step BIG Idea Blueprint For True Success In The New EconomyDo you want to grow your business in the new economy? Are you worried about the impact of technology on your company and your industry? Are you concerned that new tech-driven competitors will up-end your business model and steal away customers? Are you trying to figure out how to prosper in a marketplace being taken over by computers, artificial intelligence, robots, 3-D printing and other disruptive technology? Then read this book. Since the first edition was published in 2017, ...

Frameworks For Business Success provides guidance on how to build a foundational structure that will help entrepreneurs succeed and maximize their return on investment. The author delves deeply into topics such as systems and processes, key performance indicators, project and change management, and utilizing business resources. He also includes sections about executive retreats, strategic workshops, and wellness. The ultimate aim of the book is for entrepreneurs to be able to identify what they need in order to create an increasingly profitable business that can take them from where they ...

Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business-one that is still thriving-while dramatically reinventing it?

Digital marketers tap into an unprecedented ability to discover and reach motivated customers at scale. Now more than ever digital marketing strategies are the key for emerging brands, new and veteran entrepreneurs, and businesses of all sizes to convert customers in digital spaces. Author and veteran marketer Benjamin Sweeney distills a decade's worth of marketing experience into a crash course that covers everything from marketing fundamentals to sophisticated digital strategies.

Learn competitive business strategy from the best. According to strategic planning expert Dr. Chuck Bamford, business strategy is a mixture of instinct and instruction. You already have the instinct - let Bamford provide the instruction you need to hone your business and leadership traits, and lead your organization into a bright future. Bamford’s work stands out from other business leadership audiobooks by providing in-depth processes in a practical format that allows the listener to use the material immediately.

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY ESSENTIALS: A CONCISE GUIDE AND PRIMER An indispensable guide for individuals seeking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of technology strategy. The goal of this book is to provide a clear and concise overview of key frameworks and models that are essential for developing effective technology strategies, making it an ideal resource for students, entrepreneurs, and managers. Written in a crisp and easy-to-read format, the book covers a wide range of topics including the technology life cycle, innovation diffusion, disruptive innovation, open ...

Connie Ragen Green is a former classroom teacher and real estate appraiser who left it all behind to come online in 2006. As a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, independent publisher, international speaker, podcaster, and online entrepreneur, she serves others on six continents by helping new authors, speakers, and entrepreneurs build their own lucrative online businesses. Here, Connie shares her strategies for reaching peak productivity and a lifestyle you love by following through with everything you do.