Business Strategy

David Portney teaches you how to ace difficult job interviews.

Bestselling author and futurist Mark Schaefer explains why community is a vastly overlooked marketing opportunity for most organizations. He explains how three major trends are colliding in a way that makes brand communities the future of marketing strategy.

Dialogue provides practical guidelines for one of the essential elements of true partnership - learning how to talk together in honest and effective ways. It reveals how problems between managers and employees, and between companies or divisions within a larger corporation, stem from an inability to conduct a successful dialogue.

Compiled more than 2,000 years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on every level from the interpersonal to the international.

LinkedIn is Packed with Ideal Franchise Owner Candidates. But 99% of Franchise Consultants Can't Reach Them. Over 1 billion professionals use LinkedIn - including hundreds of thousands of qualified franchise candidates with the financial resources and entrepreneurial mindset you're looking for. The problem? Most franchise consultants are using outdated, ineffective strategies that get their messages ignored. This book reveals the proven system that helped one franchise consultant generate $765,000 USD in commissions from LinkedIn leads in just 16 months. Another closed a $96,000 USD multi-...

The ultimate toolkit to build your online business empire. Two manuscripts in one: The 8 Pillars of Social Media Marketing and The 12 Best Ways to Make Money Online.

A Stage 2 business has between 11-19 employees. As the Ramp-Up Stage, a Stage 2 company is at a place where it has gained enough employees that more organizational structure needs to be put into place. The owner or CEO needs to focus on developing up to three supervisors/managers who can begin to help oversee some of the team. Growth must continue to come through the increase of profitable revenue, which typically requires increasing the structure and consistency of business development initiatives. Failure to create stable revenue streams will lead to the company stalling, or potentially ...

This audiobook was created based on Michael Porter's landmark book Competitive Strategy. This was Mr. Porter's synopsis of his book for the Harvard Business Review.

No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned over the course of his fascinating, exhilarating life. Special forces training is no walk in the park. The rules are strict, and they make sure you learn the hard way, pushing you beyond the limits of what is physically possible. There is no mercy. Even when you are bleeding and broken, to admit defeat is failure.

What do top sales reps from around the globe, spanning diverse cultures, have in common? The answer may surprise you. In Authentic SALES, Travis takes you on a journey to uncover the universal traits of the most successful sellers. If you’re desiring to excel in sales, It’s your ticket to transforming your sales approach from rote scripts to genuine purposeful connections. Drawing from years as a top-performing rep and observations from countless international sales reps, Travis McCoy challenges the conventional sales playbook that restricts and confines.

Fred Joyal, the expert in dental consumer marketing, reveals how every single thing you say and do in your practice communicates a message to your patients. Everything is Marketing takes you step by step through your business, showing how little changes can have a big impact. Want to attract new patients? Convert more calls into appointments? Increase your case acceptance? Marketing can make it happen.

Are you contemplating the ultimate move for your business – the grand exit? Whether it's the fruit of years of dedication or the crescendo of a thriving enterprise, "Exit Wise" is the comprehensive, enlightened guide you've been seeking to navigate the complex process of selling your business. Embark on a profound and essential journey through the emotional landscape that accompanies the decision to sell. With the first steps laid out with clarity, "Exit Wise" prepares you mentally and strategically, helping you establish a support system that will prove indispensable throughout the ...

2025 Edition! This practical and concise guide provides senior decision-makers with a clear, accessible roadmap for harnessing the power of generative AI, enhancing innovation, and boosting business outcomes. Drawing on insights from AI-enabled business transformations in diverse sectors, it presents a validated strategic approach. This blueprint not only outlines best practices but also showcases pioneering use cases, integrating them into a cohesive framework for practical business transformation. This scenario-based approach helps leaders understand where and how to apply the practices ...

In this formative period, from 1941-78, Buffett developed and honed the investment philosophy that would lead him to become so successful as his career progressed. But it was not all plain sailing - Buffett made mistakes along the way - and Arnold shows how Buffett learned through success and failure how to select companies worth backing. Arnold also includes insightful "learning points" at the end of each chapter, which reveal how investors can learn from the craft of Warren Buffett to improve their own investing.

Would you like to learn proven tactics to make a blog profitable using the best practices in affiliate marketing and leveraging your content on social media? How blogging, affiliate marketing, and social media can work together to provide an income is the topic of this audiobook. Blogging a 6 Figure Business Strategy in 2020 offers clear and simple methods for creating, designing, and optimizing your blog for the greatest profit.

In their new book, Paul Leinwand and Mahadeva Matt Mani, both members of the PwC US partnership and the Strategy & Global team, help leaders navigate these profound and historical shifts and provide a road map for reshaping their companies. Building on major new body of research, along with case studies of companies on the vanguard of this major shift, the authors identify the seven imperatives that leaders must follow as the digital age continues to evolve

Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies.

This guide will walk you step by step through all the essential phases of developing a results driven marketing plan. The marketing plan is a problem-solving document. Skilled problem solvers recognize that a big problem is usually the combination of several smaller problems. The best approach is to solve each of the smaller problems first, thereby dividing the big problem into manageable pieces. Your marketing plan should take the same approach. It should be a guide on which to base decisions and should ensure that everyone in your organization is working together to achieve the same goals...

Richard H. Lawrence, Jr. founded Overlook Investments in Hong Kong in 1991. Since inception, Overlook has grown at 14.3% per year for three decades a remarkable record of growth that is testament to a consistent ability to find and invest in Asia's best companies. This raises two important questions: How did Overlook achieve its success; and how can Overlook best ensure future success? Now, in a level of detail never before disclosed, Richard and the Overlook executive team turn the lens inward to analyze The Overlook Model.

The Financial Times Guide to Strategy is your unbeatable reference on strategy. It offers an incisive overview of both corporate level and business unit level strategy, an A to Z of the world's leading strategic thinkers, and introduces the key strategic tools and techniques you need to develop your own strategy. Based on long experience and on conversations with leading strategists around the world, Richard Koch helps you discover each critical step in creating, delivering, and understanding successful strategy.