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Find out how to see into your own blind spots, ruthlessly understand yourself and your decisions, and lay the foundation for tomorrow's successes today with Future-Proofing Your Business.

Art Thinking combines the mind-sets of art and the tools of business to protect space for open-ended exploration and manage risks on your way to success. Art Thinking takes you from "Wouldn't it be cool if...?" to realizing your highest aims, helping you build creative skills you can apply across all facets of business and life. Warm, honest, and unexpected, Art Thinking will help you reimagine your work and life-and even change the world-while enjoying the journey from point A.

Steve Jobs. Jeff Bezos. Larry Page. Sergey Brin. Zhang Ruimin. Marc Benioff. Millions of words have been written about the great entrepreneurs of the world. This book is not about describing their achievements. Nor is it about their charisma, personal trials, or their place in popular culture. We have all heard or read about them already. This book is about the entrepreneur, the thinker. It is about the grand ideas, the disruptive thoughts, the innovative underpinnings and business philosophies that gave rise to their achievements.

Entrepreneur Voices on Growth Hacking shares the inspirational stories of unconventional entrepreneurs who retooled companies and industries and were rewarded handsomely for it while giving you the tools you need to do the same.

The most dangerous move in business is the failure to make a move. Global business celebrity and primetime Bloomberg Television host Jeffrey W. Hayzlett empowers business leaders to tie their visions to actions, advancing themselves past competitors and closer to their business dreams.

What is your digital business model? While many leaders of companies recognize the threat from digital - and the potential opportunity - they lack a common language or a compelling framework to help them assess it and, more importantly, to direct them. They don't know how to think about their digital business model. In this probing and practical book, Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner provide much-needed tools, self-assessments, motivating examples, and key financial analyses of where the profits will likely be made.

"The PEND Principle" was created by marketing consultant Rudi Tartaglia. Rudi created this process after working with hundreds of clients in a consultancy capacity, who most times struggled with developing strategic process in their business. "The PEND Principle" covers four key strategic principles that businesses can use to grow over the short, medium, and long term. This process takes the guess work out of when and how to grow strategically, and this principle can be applied across any business type, large or small.

Too many companies limit their strategic thinking by focusing on what they already know how to do. Executives are expected to set concrete objectives and create detailed, step-by-step plans to reach them. This approach may satisfy short-term considerations like quarterly earnings reports, but it produces modest innovation and evolutionary development at best. As a result, the business can find itself in a performance plateau that it cannot seem to break out of.

In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today. Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change - a strategy comprised of a clear set of choices in two key areas: how our elections work and how we make our laws.

The second global downturn in a dozen years is upon us - but do lessons learned during the Great Recession still apply? What must you and your business do, now, to ensure you come out the other side intact? Global Recession: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand the smartest ways to cut costs intelligently, find opportunities amid upheaval, and reshape your business to seize advantage in the upswing.

Leadership is all about others - inspiring them to believe, then enabling that belief to become reality. That's the essence of Leadership U: it starts with U but it's not about U. Those timeless words are timelier than ever today, as leaders look to accelerate through the crisis curve. As author Gary Burnison observes, "There will likely be more change in the next two years than we have seen in the last 20." Now, in Leadership U, Burnison lays out a framework - his Six Degrees of Leadership - to show leaders how to create change.

Talent-not products, strategy, or technology-is what drives growth and makes running a business rewarding. The New Talent Playbook gives business owners a clear, proven framework to build high-performing teams.

Hoe bou jy ’n bank? Hoe moet jy maak om in die vroeë 2000’s vir die magtige Absa, Standard Bank, FNB en Nedbank die stryd aan te sê, en dan boonop te wen? Die topverkoperskrywer T J Strydom vertel die boeiende verhaal van ’n klompie entrepreneurs wat daarin slaag om ’n netwerk van mikrolenerye in ’n uitdagerbank te omskep.

En este volumen 4, el lector encontrará 300 nuevas reflexiones de 30 nuevos personajes de relevancia de ámbitos muy diversos, explicadas con profundidad y rigor por Francisco Alcaide para darles coherencia y significado. Además, por primera vez, se incluyen entre «los mejores» a personajes de ficción del mundo del cine, la literatura o el cómic que han trascendido a sus creadores y cuyas enseñanzas son reveladoras. Entre otros: El Principito, Forrest Gump, Eliot Ness o Guido Orefice desfilan por estas páginas.

Piensa estratégicamente ofrece consejos prácticos y sugerencias para ayudar a ver la perspectiva desde un panorama general en todos los aspectos del trabajo diario, desde la toma de decisiones hasta el establecimiento de las prioridades del equipo. Aprenderás a: entender la estrategia de tu organización; alinear al equipo en torno a los objetivos clave; centrarte en las prioridades más importantes; detectar tendencias en tu empresa y en tu sector; tener en cuenta los resultados futuros a la hora de tomar decisiones; gestionar las compensaciones; adoptar una mentalidad de liderazgo.

Have you ever felt lost in knowing how your business is actually doing? Were you surprised by events that you didn’t see coming? Did you spend sleepless nights wondering whether or not your company was going to make it? Then Data is for you. This data-driven handbook is the third installment of the Traction Library’s EOS Mastery Series that provides all the tools you need to build an environment of transparency and get better results through clarity and accountability.

Over the next decade, all leaders will be augmented with some form of generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI. For the best leaders, this will mean dramatic improvement. For mediocre leaders, this will mean persistent confusion, distraction, and pretense. With futureback thinking—looking ten years ahead, then planning backward from future to next to now—this third edition of Leaders Make the Future shows how people can improve their leadership skills while expanding their human perspective.

Elevate your problem-solving skills with the Mastering Systems Thinking Bundle, featuring two transformative audiobooks: Learn To Think in Systems and Systems Thinking Made Simple. Together, the Mastering Systems Thinking Bundle provides a comprehensive exploration of systems thinking, enabling you to develop a holistic perspective that enhances your analytical capabilities.

Brought to you by Penguin. What's the point of a business without a purpose? James Reed, Chairman and CEO of Reed and author of Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again, is on a mission to reform capitalism. Corporations, he argues, are largely ignoring their employees, customers...

Un director no será recordado por lo que planeó, sino por lo que logró. Mucho se ha escrito sobre planeación estratégica, pero no sobre la ejecución. Y es que para planear hay una metodología clara, pero la ejecución es fundamentalmente práctica y no existe una receta única; requiere de juicio y disciplina, de saber aplicar el saber prudencial.