Strategic Management

What will the world look like in 2020? Paul Cornish and Kingsley Donaldson guide us through a maze of global uncertainty in this fascinating look at the future. With the world already struggling to contain conflicts on several continents, with security and defence expenditure under huge pressure, it's time to think the unthinkable and explore what might happen

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.

From the bestselling author of The Roaring 2000s and The Great Depression Ahead comes a work that looks forward, showing listeners how to weather the storm in this new economy that is going to get much worse in the years ahead.

In his most recent New York Times best-selling work, The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent predicted the debt crisis that would ensue in the wake of the government’s failed stimulus plan. Dent’s investment advice sees no place to hide....

What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured the relationships they have built with you. Most important...is your company capable of setting aside a bit of its own self-interest to become part of dramatically more rewarding collaborative effort?

You don’t have to have an MBA to understand the basics of accounting and finance, although it helps. This short book is a primer that will give you and those in your organization some basic tools for making smarter business decisions. Like many of my senior team colleagues at the time, many people believe that finance is the responsibility of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and perhaps a few staff accountants. Over the years, I have learned that we all need to understand some of the principles of accounting and finance, as well as some best practices.

Leading corporate strategist Mark Faust provides his proven turnaround tactics to grow your business. His game-changing secrets have enabled countless companies to obtain long-term and systematic growth and prosperity....

How can we think about the future? What do we need to do - and who do we need to be? We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life won’t provide that; experts in forecasting are reluctant to look more than 400 days out. History doesn’t repeat itself and even genetics won’t tell you everything you want to know. Ineradicable uncertainty is now a fact of life.

ആശയ രൂപീകരണം മുതൽ പ്രാരംഭ ഓഹരി വിൽപ്പന വരെയുള്ള സംരഭകത്വയാത്രയിൽ ഒരു വ്യവ സായിക്ക് അഭിമുഖീകരിക്കേണ്ടി വരുന്ന പ്രശ്‌നങ്ങളെയും വെല്ലുവിളികളെയും പ്രയാസങ്ങളെയും ലളിതമായ രീതിയിൽ അഭിസംബോധന ചെയ്യുന്ന പുസ്തകം. വ്യവസായ സംരംഭങ്ങൾ നടത്തുന്നവർക്കും വ്യവസായ മേഖലയിലേക്ക് കാലൂന്നാൻ ശ്രമിക്കുന്നവർക്കും സഹായകമായ രീതിയിൽ രചിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന ഈ പ്രായോഗിക കൈപ്പുസ്തകം നിങ്ങളുടെ സംരംഭകയാത്രയുടെ ഓരോ ഘട്ടങ്ങ ളിലും നിങ്ങളെ സഹായിക്കുന്നതാണ്.

How do we stay safe? Should we? What if our attempts are exposing us even more to the very risks we are avoiding? Would acceptance of danger make us more secure? Is there such a thing as foolproof? In Foolproof, Greg Ip presents a macro theory of human nature and disaster that explains how we can keep ourselves safe in our increasingly dangerous world.

This is an audiobook for people with ideas. Do you make plans that never get implemented? Are they overly complicated and fail because you simply can't stop planning until it's perfect? Or do you refuse to plan because you care only about getting things done, but end up failing and causing chaos for those closest to you (spouse, partners, teammates, etc.)? Do you end up reworking projects instead of accomplishing your goals?

Ready to transform your financial health? This book reveals surprising and realistic ways to improve your financial situation, utilizing real estate, strategic relocation and sound financial strategies. It offers a unique fresh perspective on building wealth and improving your financial well-being, using what you have or what to look for. This isn’t just another book on property investment—it’s a comprehensive guide to maximizing your financial potential through strategic moves and smart financial management.

In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, best-selling author of Big Data, and Thomas Ramge, who writes for The Economist, show, data is replacing money as the driver of market behavior. Big finance and big companies will be replaced by small groups and individual actors who make markets instead of making things: think Uber instead of Ford, or Airbnb instead of Hyatt. Will this be an age of prosperity or of calamity?

In his most practical book to date, financial expert and investment advisor James Rickards shows how and why our financial markets are being artificially inflated and what smart investors can do to protect their assets. What goes up must come down. As any student of financial history knows, the dizzying heights of the stock market can't continue indefinitely. In turbulent times, the elites are prepared but what should the average investor do? James Rickards lays out the true risks to our financial system and offers invaluable advice on how best to weather the storm.

Author Michael Berman shows listeners why risk management and strategic planning are inseparable. Building off research, historical examples, and the most current enterprise risk management framework, he shows why good risk management isn’t about risk avoidance. It’s about risk awareness, which empowers financial institutions to be prepared, protected, and positioned for opportunities. The Upside of Risk weaves together risk management theory and practical advice to deliver actionable takeaways for transforming risk management into a strategic advantage.

Imagine que está a navegar em alto mar, que o horizonte é vasto e incerto, que as ondas são imprevisíveis? bem-vindo ao oceano da agilidade. Neste mundo, a agilidade é mais do que um conceito: é a arte de sobreviver e prosperar.

It's very likely that best practices - ideas, processes, and strategies that are commonplace in your industry - are actually hurting your business. Although best practices can help businesses operate more competitively and efficiently, they are often outdated, harmful, and a hindrance to innovation. In Breaking Bad Habits, Freek Vermeulen, a strategy professor at London Business School, offers the tools to identify bad practices, eliminate them from your organization, and then move on to create new sources of innovation and growth by outthinking your competitors.

In the increasingly competitive business ecosystem, adopting a narrow strategy will render a business obsolete. As external pressures increase, it is vital to build intrinsic value to strengthen a company from its core. Steve Coughran employs over a decade of business research and international business expertise to provide listeners with a comprehensive framework that demonstrates the six authentic drivers of firm value.

Wir sind inmitten einer historischen Zeitenwende - weltweit! Wirtschaft, Politik, Gesellschaft. Nichts wird so bleiben, wie es war. Wir stehen vor großen Verwerfungen und dem größten Vermögenstransfer in der Geschichte der Menschheit. Krisen sind aber auch Chancen: Jetzt werden Vermögen auf Generationen gemacht oder vernichtet. Der fünffache Spiegel-Bestsellerautor Marc Friedrich zeigt mit seinem Hörbuch, wie jeder für sich und wir als Menschheit die Krise als einmalige Chance nutzen können.

All the War They Want presents counterintuitive problem-solving techniques, using as its case in point one of the most existential threats to our national security and American way of life: cyber warfare. Informed by Jeffrey Engle’s experience as a member of the U.S. military’s elite special ops community, his Brazilian jiujitsu training, and his leadership of a premier cyber defense company, All the War They Want offers an alternative perspective on overcoming tough leadership challenges—a perspective previously available only to those bearing the scars of a lifetime at war.

For over 15 years, New York Times best-selling author Harry S. Dent, Jr. has been uncannily accurate in predicting the financial future. In his three previous works, Dent predicted the financial recession of the early 90s, the economic expansion of the mid-90s, and the financial free-for-all of 1998-2000.