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Berkshire Hathaway, the $300+ billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book challenges that assumption. In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire's subsidiaries, Lawrence Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's perpetual prosperity.

In his over twenty-year career leading crisis communications for governments and organizations across the globe, Dallas Lawrence has seen it all. His work has taken him from the communications headquarters for the Iraq War to Yemen in an effort to avert the Yemeni Civil War, from the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facilities in Cuba to the Horn of Africa's command center for anti-pirating activities. Communicating Under Fire provides the needed mindset, strategies, and communication moves that anyone with a reputation worth defending will need when—not if—their crisis moment arrives.

Six Sigma is today's most talked-about system for improving the quality of organizational processes. Written by best-selling author Peter Pande, What Is Six Sigma? is a concise summary of the core themes and processes of Six Sigma. Unlike almost all other books on Six Sigma, it is written for the employees of organizations rolling out Six Sigma­­not just managers. This helpful overview describes what Six Sigma is, why companies are implementing it, and how employees can make it a success in their own organizations.

Throughout history, the concept of command—as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority—has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts.

One day in November 1994, Lawrence Levy received a phone call out of the blue from Steve Jobs, whom he'd never met, offering him a job running Pixar, a little-known company that had already lost Jobs $50 million. With Pixar's prospects looking bleak, it was with some trepidation that Levy accepted the position. After a few weeks he discovered that the situation was even worse than he'd imagined.

**Powerful coaching questions to get the best out of any situation.** In coaching, questions are the route to progress. Questions enable the people being coached to arrive at their own solutions and, crucially, to 'own' them as well. The effectiveness of this tool applies to anyone in a coaching...

Thirty years ago, Roger Fisher and Bill Ury wrote the groundbreaking book Getting to Yes. It established the mutual gains approach to negotiation, or what the popular media likes to call "win-win negotiation." But there are few, if any, negotiating situations in which everyone can get everything...

Ken Blanchard transformed modern leadership theory through unlikely means—by catching people doing things right. Written with warmth and humor, this authorized biography reveals how a mediocre student who was told he "couldn't write" became a bestselling author and a globally renowned management expert.

Like pilots navigating turbulence, CEOs must handle the invisible forces that want to drag their companies down and learn to take advantage of the ones that keep them soaring. Drawing from three decades as a growth advisor to CEOs around the world, Kevin Lawrence explains how even exceptional leaders can become victims of their own success and reveals what it takes to keep a company on course. Filled with examples from real CEOs, The 4 Forces of Growth offers a clear path to achieving real, consistent, and scalable growth by harnessing a few simple tools and avoiding common pitfalls.

This helpful resource will show you what you’re doing wrong with hiring and how to fix it. It’s frustrating. You’re up to date on all the newest interview techniques. You know what to look for on candidates’ résumés. You inspect social media profiles for red flags and put them through...

Lawrence Armstrong’s vision for competitive excellence is animated by investing in and caring about the development of the whole person and their surrounding community. Under his creative, layer-based approach, Ware Malcomb has become a global leader in the industrial building sector—one of the world’s most successful and admired businesses of its kind.

Leading Change offers an alternative. It provides a framework for change that opens opportunities for people within the organization to play a significant role in the process. Supported by academic research, and grounded with a range of examples and cases, the book offers a valuable approach to successful change management.

This welcome new guide to the world of entrepreneurship offers invaluable lessons for the student and the practical entrepreneur alike. For the student it breathes fresh life into the standard curriculum topics, analyzing them in the context of a wide range of current real-world examples. For business practitioners it shows how practical success is influenced by factors such as industry dynamics, entry barriers, reconfiguration, and core competence. Enterprise in Action gives clear accounts of concepts and processes so that anyone can come on board.

Abundant Life podcast exists to inspire, capture, and enlighten hearts with practical tips on how to live the abundant life as stories of transformation and healing are shared. God is still in the business of taking a mess and turning it into a powerful message of hope and redemption for our good and His glory. May we surrender our lives to Him and experience the abundant life that He died for us to have. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly” (John 10:10).

What does the concept of a career mean for you right now? What does it mean to search for a fulfilling work life? How does work shape our identity and give us meaning? The pandemic afforded some of us the chance to reflect and new possibilities begin to reveal themselves. This seemed like a great time to ask some of my clients to reflect and talk about their working lives. To create a podcast series and book that focused on some of the themes that I work with frequently with my clients. Each episode will give you an insight into how these clients think about the reality of their work and ...

How do great organizations go from paper to profit? What are the secrets to sound, lucrative decision-making? And how can you analyze executive and company performance for smarter investing—as a leader or a shareholder? In The Founder Effect, Lawrence Lam identifies the intangible elements that drive the success behind outstanding global companies.

Using real life examples, Deal Maker reveals the behavioral and psychological dimensions of deal making and gives practical advice on planning a negotiating strategy to achieve the best possible results. This book, authored by a venture capitalist with experience structuring deals for entrepreneurial firms and Wall Street takeovers, tells you what skills are needed for successful deal making. It describes how to develop a negotiating strategy explaining the behavioral and psychological dimensions of deal making.

Hosted by Dr. Lawrence Chatters, Law of Lift is a powerful and uplifting podcast dedicated to inspiring others through meaningful conversation and real-life stories of impact. With a Ph.D. in counseling psychology and a career devoted to mental health, education, and service, Dr. Chatters brings deep insight and compassion to every episode.From his experience as a counselor, academic advisor, and nonprofit executive to his work supporting children with special medical needs, Dr. Chatters understands the challenges we face and the resilience it takes to rise above them. Each week, he invites ...

Bestselling author Ken Blanchard brings you the tie-in guide to accompany his TrustWorks! training program. Ken Blanchard is famous for his ability to make the seemingly complex simple. In Trust Works! he brings his talent to bear on the complicated and timely issue of trust. The book begins...

The UK's Premier Property, Business, Markets & Economics Podcast. With your hosts: Adam Lawrence and Jay Howard. Expert Resident Guests: - Helen Chorley - Piotr Rusinek