Strategic Management

Meet your secret weapon for a better career. You can advance at work only as far as clients and stakeholders are willing to act on your knowledge and recommendations. If you want decision makers to give you the green light, make the decisions you want, hire, or champion the success of your projects, you must learn the art of talking with your stakeholders. Alexandra Mack understands the impact you want to make and the challenges standing in your way. In Talking to Stakeholders, she presents actionable, proven strategies to communicate and connect with anyone wielding the power to help or ...

Introducing Guardrailing, a nontraditional method for creatively and authentically guiding your vision, team, and company from concept to successful exit. Author Michael Bush draws from his experience as a consultant, strategic planning expert, and former CEO of Ganeden, a prominent player in the probiotics industry, to share his simple strategy for aligning your business with the values and spirit of the wellness revolution— to help you reach your ultimate destination while fostering a new era of conscious leadership.

This book provides a detailed, step-by-step account of how fraud can be committed in the construction industry, narrated through the experiences of Robert, a former project manager who orchestrated a sophisticated scheme to siphon funds using a fake vendor. Combining his personal story with actionable insights, Robert reveals the vulnerabilities that allow fraud to thrive, the devastating consequences of unethical behavior, and the strategies businesses can adopt to protect themselves.

Digital transformation is much more than building a digital infrastructure to gather and process data. It is about understanding how digital technologies enable the creation of innovative services and products. It is about identifying new competitive positions and business models and thinking critically about how to both create and capture value. Strategy in the Digital Age directly engages these concerns and provides a comprehensive roadmap for planning a successful digital strategy and executing a digital transformation in organizations.

The tumultuous changes of the past decade, including China's economic rise and the financial meltdown, were just the beginning. The next cataclysmic wave is surging relentlessly ahead, demanding leaders who can steer their companies through complexity and change. Leadership 2030 uncovers six megatrends that will dramatically impact organizations' markets, cultures, systems, and processes.

In Design Any Disaster, certified emergency manager and master business continuity practitioner Patrick Hardy reveals the secrets of disaster preparedness that helped him build the largest and most successful small business and family disaster planning company in the world. He explains why: You should never, ever "remain calm" during a disaster, 99% of all disaster plans are a complete waste of time, and fancy disaster equipment and supplies actually leave you less prepared.

We are living in a world in which cows send texts to farmers when they're in heat, where the most valuable real estate in New York City houses computers, not people, and some of humanity's greatest works are created by crowds, not individuals. We are in the midst of a networking revolution - set to transform the way we access the world's information and the way we connect with one another. Studying biological systems is perhaps the best way to understand such networks, and nature has a lesson for us if we care to listen: Bigger is rarely better in the long run.

"Strategic Negotiation: Master the Art of Negotiating in Any Context" is a comprehensive guide that provides listeners with an in-depth understanding of the world of negotiation. This book covers everything from the basics to advanced strategies, offering valuable insights and proven techniques to enhance your negotiation skills.

In an era of constant disruption and organisational transformation, building meaningful partnerships that last requires more than just good intentions. In "The WAV Model," executive and thought leader Dominic Levesque introduces an innovative framework for creating powerful business relationships that can weather any storm.

This book provides the road map business owners need to build massive value and start moving toward a successful transition.

In The Strategic Leader's Roadmap, Updated and Revised Edition: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy, Wharton management professors Harbir Singh and Michael Useem offer a six-point checklist for today's leaders to follow. They explain how leading strategically will help managers strengthen their capacity to develop strategy and to lead its execution.

In 1798, the influential cleric, scholar, and economist Thomas Malthus predicted that the world would soon run out of food, as linear food production growth would be unable to feed the exponentially growing population. Fast forward 200 years, and the world's population has grown almost 10 times, and we are closer to colonizing Mars than we ever will be of running out of food. The reason? Innovation. In From Malthus to Mars, Nicolai Chen Nielsen and Lars Tvede outline the wild future that we are speeding into.

Running a small business is both exciting and challenging. While the rewards of entrepreneurship are great, the risks are equally significant. From financial instability and operational missteps to cybersecurity threats and reputational damage, small business owners must navigate a landscape filled with potential pitfalls. Without the right strategies in place, even a promising business can face unexpected setbacks. This book is designed to help you take control of the risks that threaten your business.

A powerful new approach to strategy setting from a worldwide leader in strategic thinking. Written by a leading consultant at Kepner-Tregoe, one of the world's most respected strategy consulting groups, The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership goes far beyond most other strategy books to offer business strategists an integrated five-phase model for setting and implementing strategy.

Strategic Leaders Are Made, Not Born provides an important foundation for every leader who is seeking to be more strategic in how they live and work. Each day, all of us face an overwhelming wave of daily tasks that can keep us from focusing on what we care about most. This audiobook provides leaders with critical tools for this journey.

Strategic leadership is essential to business success: Strong leaders are those who successfully navigate a great shift: from tactical doer to strategic leader. Regardless of your industry, line of business, or sector, your organization desperately needs strategic leaders. A strategic leader is tuned in to the needs of the business, understands how his or her actions impact corporate objectives, and uses data to make smart decisions. Whether you're leading a department team or running your own company, a strategic leader clearly propels business performance.

Vor einigen Jahren begann Ray Dalio beunruhigende politische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen zu bemerken, denen er in seiner 50-jährigen Karriere noch nie zuvor begegnet war. Auf der Suche nach einer Erklärung entdeckte er, dass solche Kombinationen von Bedingungen charakteristisch für Perioden des Übergangs sind, in denen sich Reichtum und Macht in einer Weise verschoben, die die Weltordnung neu gestaltete.

In the long run, economies grow. Over the shorter-term business cycle, economic activity contracts and expands. From Main Street to Wall Street examines both the long-run relation between economic growth and stock returns and the shorter-term business-cycle relation. It examines the complex relationship between the economy and the stock market, and guides listeners through the fascinating interaction between economic activity and financial markets.

A team of expert innovation strategists delivers an exciting and insightful collection of strategies, techniques, and frameworks for scaling your next big, audacious idea into a concrete product or service. Each proven and tested strategy contained in the book has been categorized to make it easy to find and implement when you need it most. You’ll learn how and where to start, when to bet big, how to invest, when to play the long game, what to communicate, and much more.

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Investing Mastery is a book primarily written to help you navigate your way through NFT investing. The book explores the basics of NFTs and how to make, buy, sell, trade, and invest in NFT crypto. Because of the complexity of crypto and qn NFT investment, this guide to Non-Fungible Token has been specifically designed to serve the investment needs of both beginners and pros. So, whichever category you fall into, you don’t have to sweat over it, as this book is well-simplified to lead you through your NFT investment journey.