Career Planning

It's your responsibility as a manager to ensure that your work—and the work of your team—aligns with the overarching objectives of your organization. But when you're faced with competing projects and limited time, it's difficult to keep strategy front of mind. How do you keep your eye on the long term amid a sea of short-term demands? The HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically provides practical advice and tips to help you see the big-picture perspective in every aspect of your daily work, from making decisions to setting team priorities to attacking your own to-do list.

Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Why did Facebook succeed when other social networking sites failed? Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence? How much can CEO’s impact the performance of their companies? And does higher pay incentivize people to work hard? If you think the answers to these questions are a matter of common sense, think again.

With more than 1 million copies in circulation, it remains the best-selling family business book of all time. Much of its success is owed to the deeply original message about the dangers of gifting an operating business to family. It offers business owners and their family a proven process for building wealth and protecting family relationships by exploring whether the business should be sold inside or outside the family. Every Family's Business includes 12 questions to help guide this emotional transition.

A few rare leaders have learned to embrace a new organizational shape and mindset: Constellations. Organizations designed as constellations are dynamic and flexible networks of distinct yet interwoven individuals. Each member of the team feels like a singular star and is also connected to others to form something greater. That is how Visa reimagined how we pay for things, how Wikipedia beat the richest company in the world and how Barack Obama and his grassroots team revolutionized political campaigning. These leaders did what most leaders dread - they gave away power.

Can you succeed in business when your strength is more about sensitivity than swagger? If you’re moved by meaning, more than manipulation? In other words: Can you succeed while still being you? Christine Kane is living proof that the answer is yes. Far too many of us have swallowed the notion that business owners have to be a certain way to be successful - strategy-obsessed, data-driven, and relentlessly aggressive.

"The Corporate Mentor's Toolkit: Techniques and Strategies for Success" is the ultimate guide for managers and leaders who want to build a successful mentoring program within their organization. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the mentoring process, including identifying mentees, matching them with mentors, and establishing clear goals and expectations. It also provides various tools and techniques for fostering effective communication and building trust between mentors and mentees. With practical advice and real-world examples, this book equips readers with the knowledge and...

Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point, to his years in Afghanistan, to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, McChrystal has seen how individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed.

Charles J. Givens is famous for his powerful strategies that have helped millions of people along the road to success and financial freedom. He is the author of three number-one best-selling financial self-help books and now with Superself, Mr. Givens shows you how to achieve your fullest personal and business potential with a set of proven strategies that serve as an "operations manual" for your life.

Achieving Excellence in Fundraising is the go-to reference for fundraising principles, concepts, and techniques. With comprehensive guidance toward the fundraising role, this audiobook reflects the latest advances in fundraising knowledge. Coverage includes evolving technologies, the importance of high net-worth donors, global fundraising perspectives, results analysis and performance evaluation, accountability, and credentialing, with contributions from noted experts in the field. You'll gain essential insight into the practice of fundraising and the fundraising cycle.

Pharmaceutical companies launch new products for two fundamental reasons, new products drive growth and growth drives valuations. But consistent growth has never been harder to come by. The decreasing tenure of companies in the S&P 500 Index is an indication of this. The 33-year average tenure of companies in 1964 declined to 24 years by 2016 and is projected to shrink to just 12 years by 2027. More than ever, companies must understand the levers that accelerate growth and put their shoulders behind them.

An article which extols the virtues of being a writer, outlining some of the criteria necessary for recognizing the talents and needs and skills one must have to just plain 'go for it". It's not always a matter of how good you think you are, or how many rejection letters you have received. All that matters is that you want to put your thoughts down. Sometimes it is not whether or not the final goal may be achieved, it is the experience of the journey which is the satisfying portion of your life.

Are you a small-business owner, student, or a senior manager in another discipline who needs to brush up on financial concepts? If so, this audiobook will explain finance simply and with plenty of real-life examples that make it easy to see how to apply the concepts in practice. This audiobook is also concentrated on explaining what the financial figures mean and how to figure out the message they are sending, rather than on how to construct a balance sheet or do an audit.

Take your passion for event planning to the next level with in-the-trenches advice and tools you need to start, run, and grow a successful business. From writing a solid contract to finding reliable vendors, our experts help you identify your niche, teach you how to scout potential clients, evaluate the competition, market your business, and more.

Marcus Bridgewater has been compared to Bob Ross and Mister Rogers for his soothing TikTok videos that relate botany to humanity. A gardener “who shares tips about caring for one’s plants and oneself” (New York Times) and “is not only a trove of information if you’re looking to flex your green thumb, but a balm for the pandemic-induced chaos happening in the world” (Vogue), his soothing observations on plants and life have made him a social media star. In caring for over 600 plants, Marcus has gained invaluable wisdom.

No pre-pandemic strategy is effective anymore. Alan Weiss has developed an original, new approach to strategy which thus far has certified over 100 people globally, delivering this approach to scores of firms of all types in four countries.

A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up to date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Ginni Rometty to Robert I. Sutton and company examples from Maersk to Nvidia, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.

Stop Racing Against the Clock – Start Mastering Your Day. Do you feel overwhelmed by endless to-do lists and constant distractions? Does true work-life balance seem like an impossible goal? If you're tired of feeling stressed and unproductive, Time Management & Planning: Your Key to Workplace Productivity and Less Stress offers a lifeline. Written by clinical psychologist Dr. Carey Heller, an expert in ADHD and executive functioning, this concise, practical guide cuts through the noise of complex productivity systems. Forget dense manuals – this book delivers psychologically-sound, ...

La guía definitiva para cualquiera que desee iniciar una empresa de transportes. En este libro se cubrirá todo, desde la industria en sí misma y por qué es tan rentable en este momento, hasta la ampliación de su negocio y la contratación de personal. También se hablará de los precios, de la competencia y de lo que se necesita para empezar en esta apasionante industria.

An introduction for everyone. Rather than a "how to" for hands-on techies, this book - now in its revised and updated edition - serves lay listeners and experts alike by covering new case studies and the latest state-of-the-art techniques. In this rich, fascinating, and surprisingly accessible introduction, leading expert Eric Siegel reveals how predictive analytics works and how it affects everyone every day.

In The Sea We Swim In, Frank Rose leads us to a new understanding of stories and their role in our lives. For decades, experts from many fields - psychologists, economists, advertising and marketing executives - failed to register the power of narrative. Scientists thought stories were frivolous. Economists were knee-deep in theory. Marketers just wanted to cut to the sales pitch. Yet stories, not reasoning, are the key to persuasion.