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In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee provides executives with a simple tool to cut through technological complexity and market uncertainties. The Value Stick, based on proven economic mechanics, is an extraordinarily powerful tool that helps executives decide where to focus their attention and how to deepen their firm's competitive advantage.

As a manager you have to make decisions - from daily choices about team priorities to deciding which long-term innovation projects to pursue. But most decisions don't have a clear-cut answer, and assessing the alternatives and the risks involved can be overwhelming. You need a smarter approach to making the best choice possible. The HBR Guide to Making Better Decisions provides practical tips and advice to help you identify the problem, evaluate your alternatives, select the right path forward, and follow through successfully.

The chaos of everyday business forces people into an exhausting, ineffective, seemingly never-ending cycle of work-arounds, firefighting, and Whac-a-Mole. The irritatingly urgent crowds out the lastingly important. There has to be a better way. And there is: the game-changing discipline of dynamic work design improves productivity, reduces costs, and increases efficiency, ensuring that all parts of a company can work in concert. It has been used in organizations around the world to close the gap between results promised and results delivered.

How can you make smart decisions? Do more choices make you happier? What steps can you take to curtail stress when selecting from a sea of options? Barry Schwartz gives you practical and science-based answers to these questions in this audio series. The author of the seminal best seller The Paradox of Choice, Dr. Schwartz has spent five decades teaching decision science. Now, this 14-lecture audio course lets you experience the same panache that has wowed Swarthmore College undergraduates and business school students at UC Berkeley and NYU.

Entrepreneurship doesn’t break founders overnight. It breaks them quietly, under pressure. The Founder’s Compass is a podcast about what no one prepares you for: how building a business reshapes how founders think, decide, and show up. Hosted by serial entrepreneur Phil Neil, the show explores leadership when certainty disappears. Each week dives into real stories of success, breakdowns, and reinvention, with a focus on emotional mastery, decision-making under pressure, and inner resilience. This isn’t about building a better business. It’s about building a founder the world doesn’t ...

The Business of Better explores how the most compelling wellness brands are built by understanding human behavior. In a crowded wellness market, growth isn’t about doing more - it’s about understanding better. This podcast dives into the psychology of customer experience and the real challenges founders face as they build brands people actually stay loyal to.Your host, Leah Babroudi, is a lifelong enthusiast of consumable wellness and the science behind it. She studies functional compounds, holds a bachelor's degree in plant biology, and previously hosted an alternative wellness podcast. ...

Better Together: A Southern Orthodontic Partners Podcast shares the stories behind thriving orthodontic practices and the people who run them. Hosts John Nelson and Dr. Scott Blackman talk with doctors and industry professionals about the experiences, challenges, and lessons that have shaped their journeys. From community engagement to clinical excellence, each conversation highlights what sets these orthodontic practices apart. Tune in for practical insights, real stories, and inspiration to help you grow your own practice with purpose.

Hi, I’m Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar - a neurodivergent trauma and relationship therapist, and what some call The Situationship Expert. But at heart, I’m a storyteller.Welcome to Build Better Bonds with the Creative Reset - a space for honest conversations about how we connect, disconnect, and find our way back to each other.I started this podcast because so many of us are living in a kind of emotional static - protecting ourselves while longing to be seen, struggling to hold both love and fear in the same breath.And I wanted to explore what happens when we bring creativity into that space - when...

The Build Better Business Podcast, hosted by Chuck Crumpton, is a podcast by business leaders for business leaders. We have great guests every week discussing all areas of business from growth to possible exits. Entertaining and packed with great value. Enjoy the show!StrategicAdvisoryForum.com

Each week, I sit down with the people behind real business growth from operations leaders and revenue experts to coaches, strategists, and founders.We talk about what happens behind the scenes: the systems, decisions, and conversations that shape healthy teams, steady growth, and values that show up in the work.

This podcast series provides actionable strategies for construction professionals to elevate their business by prioritizing strong relationships. Emphasizing trust, transparency, and genuine connection as the foundation for success, the book introduces the "Relationship Bank Account," a framework for understanding how interactions build or erode goodwill. Based on the book: Building Better Relationships, a Guide to Enhancing the Customer Experience for Home Builders, Remodelers, and Construction Managers by Paul Schwinghammer

Decades before the business world discovered the power of authentic staff engagement, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters cofounder Bob Stiller was busy creating a company with a mission to build an engaged workforce focused on innovation. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters went public, moved to selling wholesale exclusively, invested in Keurig, and became one of the few coffee companies to ever reach $1 billion in sales. In Better and Better, Stiller explains how he did it.

Virtue is more than a word: it's a way for us all to live, a way to flourish as human beings. And when applied to organizational life, virtue serves to enhance engagement, strengthen relationships, and foster success in business. Picking up where the acclaimed Exception to the Rule left off, Better Humans, Better Performance connects the classical Greek virtues—Trust, Compassion, Courage, Justice, Temperance, Wisdom, and Hope—with authoritative science that can help you achieve the highest performance.

A former Senior Partner and Global Managing Director at the legendary design firm IDEO shows how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful. Conversations are one of the most fundamental means of communicating we have as humans. At their best, conversations are...

Whether you're rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key idea in mind: ensure that every failure is maximally useful. In Fail Better, Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn show how to create the conditions, culture, and habits to systematically, ruthlessly, and quickly figure out what works in three steps.

The Better Your Business podcast is designed for realtors who want to build a business that actually feels good. Hosted by Cheryl Goetz, this show blends professional insights with an approachable, real-world perspective. Cheryl speaks with humour and conviction on creating sustainable systems, building community, and defining success on your own terms. Whether you’re looking to streamline your business, gain more work-life harmony, or overcome burnout or mindset blocks, this podcast is your go-to resource.Tune in for conversations with inspiring fellow realtors and helpful industry experts,...

Providing managers, employees, CEOs, and board members a guide to build a sustainable, robust, female workforce at all levels, Better Together gives powerful and implementable solutions to fostering gender equality in your business. As a result, your business will be more successful, your customers will be happier with better products/services, and your employees will be much more fulfilled.

Our modern workforce is suffering. For too long, organizations and leaders have sought success through a focus on efficiency and productivity, and it’s costing us dearly. Workplaces have become toxic, and getting work done is a lot harder than it needs to be. Bullying and abuse has reached epidemic levels - along with high rates of burnout, turnover, and fatigue. Clearly, something needs to change. Leadership experts Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer chart a new path forward: one that brings humanity to the workplace through awareness, choice, and courage.

For years, companies have been implementing programs that promote social responsibility and improve employee health, both of which benefit the financial bottom line. Now it's time to focus on positive social interactions and relationships in the workplace. Why? Research shows that authentic, trust-based relationships increase job satisfaction, engagement, productivity, and retention - and even decreased healthcare costs.

We’ve moved on from antiquated tools like typewriters or checkbooks, but bosses still rely on the same annual performance review process to manage employees the same way they did 70 years ago. It fails our modern hybrid workplaces and it doesn’t improve performance, especially for today’s millennial and Gen-Z workforce. It succeeds only in lowering employee engagement, undermining trust in management, decreasing transparency, and increasing turnover. There must be a way to make work better for all of us. There is.