Business Strategy

Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on Objectives and Key Results, a critical-thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focus, alignment, and better communication. Written by two leading OKRs consultants and researchers, this audiobook provides a one-stop resource for organizations looking to quantify qualitative goals. You'll learn how OKRs came to be and how leading companies use them every day to help teams and employees stretch their thinking about what's possible.

The most common complaint Bill Stinnett hears from his corporate clients is that would-be vendors and suppliers "just don't understand our business." In Think Like Your Customer, Stinnett explains why the key to landing corporate customers is to learn to think about the things executives and business owners think about and understand how they make complex buying decisions.

What if you could scale your business in just 30 days? Not with vague promises, but with an actionable, step-by-step plan that delivers real results. Revenue Roadmap: Scale Your Business in 30 Days is the bold blueprint for business owners serious about sustainable growth. This isn’t a get-rich-quick guide. It’s about putting in the work, building the right systems, and developing the habits that will propel your business forward—whether you’re a solo entrepreneur or leading a small team ready to dominate. In 30 days, you’ll: Clarify your growth goals and set targets you can ...

With advice and tools for improving a wide array of communication skills - from delivering an effective presentation to drafting proposals to the effective use of e-mail - Business Communication helps managers deliver information effectively.

Author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse data landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications.

Achieve the Impossible in 100 Days!Are you ready to turn your vision into reality and achieve massive success in just 100 days? In this groundbreaking Second Edition of Vision to Reality, master coach and multi-bestselling author Honorée Corder shares the proven STMA™ (Short-Term Massive Action) system that has helped countless individuals transform their lives and businesses. Through a powerful combination of clear goal setting, unshakeable self-belief, smart strategy, and relentless accountability, the STMA™ 100-Day Program gives you the tools and motivation you need to achieve more ...

More than 20 years ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the balanced scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management system that put the balanced scorecard into action.

Las claves estratégicas de uno de los grupos empresariales más exitosos y emblemáticos de México. Establecida en 1945, Bimbo surgió a partir de la experiencia de sus fundadores en la panadería El Molino para producir y vender pan de caja en el territorio de la República Mexicana. Ahora, con presencia en más de treinta países, es un emblema del crecimiento empresarial mexicano en un mundo globalizado y competitivo.

Are you tired of slogging through your 9-to-5 job and are looking for a better, more lucrative source of income? You’re about to discover powerful insight into the CDL business that has been buried deep within the hearts of the millionaire truck drivers. Truckers are the lifeline of any country. Food, fuel, fashion – you name it! Everything depends on the trucking industry to move cargo from point A to point B. The CDL business is one of the biggest cash cows in the world, eyeing a market worth of over $730 billion in the U.S. alone.

Peter Senge's groundbreaking ideas on building organizations have made him a household name among corporate managers. His theories help businesses to clarify their goals, to defy the odds, to more clearly understand threats, and to recognize new opportunities. He introduces managers to a new source of competitive advantage, and offers a marvelously empowering approach to work.

Consider this book your strategic toolbox, full of Bethenny’s smartest and most practical no-nonsense business principles and tactics, illustrated through her own compelling stories and lessons from the entrepreneurial front and experience building the successful Skinnygirl and Bethenny brands, becoming a successful television and podcast producer, and managing her philanthropic foundation.

#1 NEW RELEASE ON AMAZON in Green Business, Comparative Economics and Sustainable Development. How to Build Sustainability into Your Business Strategy is not just another book about why sustainability matters it’s a step-by-step guide for business leaders to make sustainability a core business strategy. Written by sustainability expert Lee Stewart, this practical guide distills over two decades of real-world experience into actionable strategies that businesses of all sizes from solo entrepreneurs to global corporations can use to build resilience and unlock new opportunities. Stewart’s...

This is the book every business owner should have readily available. If you're a business owner, the truth is that at some point you will exit the business. Don t take that step lightly. Being prepared is key, and Jerry L. Mills takes you through a step-by-step process to help you get the most out of your business. With the impending Baby Boomer Tsunami in the next few years, there will be more businesses for sale than at any other point in history. This buyers market will cause great competition. Are you prepared to get out? Make sure you have an in with The Exit Strategy Handbook.

The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used to strengthen their companies—total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds—routinely fall short. In Leading Change, Kotter identifies an eight-step process that every company must go through to achieve its goal, and shows where and how people—good people—often derail.

The "Step Up, Step Back" approach suggests leaders need to step up and do more than they typically do in the early stages of the change - in specific ways and at specific times; and then step back and do less than they typically do in the later stages of the change - again, in specific ways, at specific times. The result is not only change that sticks, but empowered, motivated managers who can get on with delivering change, without needing ongoing input or cover from leaders.

The Power of And offers a new narrative about the nature of business, revealing the focus on responsibility and ethics that unites today's most influential ideas and companies. R. Edward Freeman, Kirsten E. Martin, and Bidhan L. Parmar detail an emerging business model built on five key concepts: prioritizing purpose as well as profits; creating value for stakeholders as well as shareholders; seeing business as embedded in society as well as markets; recognizing people's full humanity as well as their economic interests.

In Ruthless Consistency, Michael Canic identifies the three surprising reasons most strategic change initiatives fail: Leaders unwittingly send mixed messages that demotivate their people and undermine those initiatives; leaders focus on what they do instead of what their people experience; and leaders are not as committed as they think they are or need to be. The book then introduces an intuitive yet comprehensive model for success.

In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.

A guide for management and boards of Credit Unions. This book is recommended reading for individuals at all levels of understanding of value proposition, change management, design thinking, what strategy is and is not, decision making, culture and what should be in your strategy toolbox. Given that Strategy is a hot topic with Credit Unions across the globe, it is preferable than as many key people in your Credit Union are on the same page in understanding Strategy. This is not a 'how to' write a Strategic plan type of book, although there is a reference in the book to the type of content ...

The Real Business of Blockchain is one of the first audiobooks on this transformative technology written for business leaders. Authors David Furlonger and Christophe Uzureau - both of Gartner, the world-renowned research and advisory company - will help you: assess how blockchain will impact your business by cutting through the hype and finding the real story; explore the value proposition that blockchain technologies offer; make smart near- and mid-term investments in your blockchain strategy; and position you and your organization in a new competitive landscape in the future.