Strategic Management

How you compensate people is one of the most important strategic decisions your company will make—but few “get it right and out of sight.” Nail it and you can add hundreds of percentage points to the bottom line while driving up the energy in the organization. Make the wrong call (or piecemeal the decision together), and the results will create needless drama throughout the organization.

Who in your organization is focused on next year and the one after, the next product, the next market? Product management should play a strategic role in a tech-enabled products company ensuring products are created not just because they can be, or because someone thinks it is a good idea but rather because someone in the company has listened to the market, identified an urgent and pervasive problem, and determined that people are willing to pay to solve it. The original version of Strategic Role of Product Management was published in 2008 and over 100,000 people have downloaded the ebook. ...

The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the "new normal," where ordering a ride or food on a smartphone or trading in bitcoins is as good as it's going to get. Another foresees a dystopian era of widespread, digitally driven job—and business—destruction. A third believes that the only technological revolution that matters will be found with renewable energy and electric cars. But according to Mills, a convergence of technologies will instead drive an economic boom over the coming decade, one that historians will characterize as the "Roaring 2020s."

A System-Driven LitRPG of Expansion, Espionage, and the Awakening World The observatory awakens. The world begins to watch. Greenreach’s rise from ruins continues—but as construction expands to the mysterious Watchtower Ridge, Edwin uncovers a relic of ancient power: a dormant observatory that once linked Strongholds across the realm. Activating it could reshape the region. Or draw the wrong eyes. 🛰️ Reconnect the system. Reawaken the map. Redefine the rules. 👁️ Unknown factions emerge—including a shadowy power called Bastion and a saboteur working in secret. ⚔️ ...

Conquer the CNML Exam: Your Concise Guide to the Certified Nurse Manager and Leader Credential provides a focused overview of essential nurse leadership topics for professionals preparing to take the CNML exam. This book is designed as a supplemental study aid, offering a high-level summary of the core domains without attempting to cover every exam detail. Readers will gain insight into leadership principles, human resource practices, quality improvement strategies, budget management, staff development, and emergency preparedness—all in a format that emphasizes clarity and relevance to ...

How do you tell a real trend from the merely trendy? How, for example, will a technology—like artificial intelligence, machine learning, self-driving cars, biohacking, bots, and the Internet of Things—affect us, our businesses, and workplaces? How will it eventually change the way we live, work, play, and think—and how should we prepare for it now? In The Signals Are Talking, noted futurist Amy Webb shows us how to analyze the "true signals" and land on the right side of disruption.

Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and learning about - and solving - an extraordinary range of problems, from the mundane to the most daunting. Today it is machine learning programs that enable Amazon and Netflix to predict what users will like, Apple to power Siri's ability to understand voices, and Google to pilot cars.

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.

Here’s how to make purposeful system change happen! The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.

Managing Priorities is your guide to prioritizing anything-anytime and anywhere. Harry Max digs into the best practices for prioritization at Apple, DreamWorks, NASA, Adobe, Google, Microsoft, and beyond, and brings them together in a single, practical method that you can apply step by step.

Based on research from over 1,200 companies, including WalMart, Google, and JPMorgan Chase, this book follows real-world cases from companies where employees evolved from silent contributors to masterminds steering corporate strategies. These cases are the vanguard of a vibrant era in which workers will be the architects of their destinies, shaping not just their own careers but the entire trajectories of their organizations.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on risk management, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Risk management is an appealing concept due to the uncertainty that exists in many organizations. It is more important today than it ever was in the past, and that importance appears to be growing. Based on its popularity, risk management is taking center stage in the thought processes of leaders all over the world. This book focuses on risk management in organizations. It introduces six basic steps for development and ...

In this expanded second edition, The Zig Zag Principle continues to offer a proven strategy for achieving business goals through strategic flexibility and resourceful planning. Building on the original's foundational concepts—assessing resources, adapting to change, and leveraging multiple opportunities—this edition integrates contemporary insights and real-world examples, including a fresh look at the impact of artificial intelligence.

The statistics are sobering: 50% of new leaders are deemed ineffective, and 40% fail within the first 18 months of their role. Fortunately, the path to becoming a successful leader is paved with opportunities for growth and learning. This is a guide that offers a new way forward. Centered around the ICE Method, this book provides practical, actionable strategies for Intention, Collaboration, and Execution that will elevate your skills and maximize your impact as a leader.

The Escalator Effect™ details four essential steps to lead and inspire your organization to rising success. The business model provides a strategy and system to help leaders build and grow meaningful focus and direction; energize and engage their teams; refine their customer (or member) experience; and create and deliver relevant distinction in the marketplace. If you are a seasoned executive seeking new insights, in a start-up just getting going, a CEO, senior or middle management, a non-profit, or even an aspiring leader or manager, the proven concepts in this book can give you tools ...

Discover the secrets behind business success. This comprehensive academic book delves deep into the world of business strategy, providing a detailed insight into essential practices for the growth and sustainability of organizations. From the fundamentals of strategic management to competitive analysis and strategic decision-making, this guide will equip you with the tools and knowledge necessary to face the challenges of today's corporate world.

Our companies, our communities, and our planet are facing unprecedented challenges - challenges that will not be solved by a small group of people from a single entity. Today's leaders need a set of tools specifically designed to harness the power of collaborative networks. Strategic Doing introduces you to the new disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. You'll learn how to design and guide complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules that you won't find anywhere else.

Even the best competitive strategies mean nothing if they can't be executed. Yet many organizations struggle when they move from defining a strategy to implementing it. Somehow, all the careful planning falls to the side, and leaders are left wondering how to pick up the pieces. The HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy is here to help. This book offers leaders and managers tips and advice for how to take even the most detailed strategy and apply it throughout their organizations.

Do you keep procrastinating? Do you struggle to stay focused long enough to achieve success? Or, do you feel overwhelmed and unable to find the most effective task to focus on? If so, this Productivity Series Boxset is for you! The Productivity Series Boxset guides you on a three-to-four-week journey to skyrocket your productivity. With tips, tools, and daily exercises, you will gain clarity on your goals and be fully equipped to complete your tasks.

Your projects, programs, and career turn on the difference between "no" and "yes". Yet selling ideas, especially the kinds of ideas that make organizations work, is a skill shrouded in mystery. Part emotional intelligence, part politics, part rhetoric, and part psychology, selling ideas is not like tricking someone out of his money. It's about helping others to see things your way: engaging their minds and imaginations.