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With Expand: Stretching the Future By Design, authors Jens Martin Skibsted, a multiple-award-winning designer, entrepreneur, and design philosopher, and Christian Bason, political scientist and CEO of the Danish Design Centre, take listeners beyond "design thinking" to challenge current habits and carve out new space for more sustainable innovation. From transforming the ways we do business and reimagining health care, to creating planet-restoring housing and humanizing our digital lives in an age of AI, Expand explores how expansive thinking across six key areas.

Traditional customer feedback methods ignore two essential sources of insight: context and behavior. These reveal the why behind the what, eliminating the ambiguity of open-ended customer feedback—and this requires a different approach. In What to Ask, author Andrea Belk Olson, CEO of applied behavioral science consulting firm Pragmadik, and head of the University of Iowa JPEC startup incubator, delivers a unique, cognitive method for discovering hidden customer needs, converting them quickly into differentiators, and avoiding the pitfalls of traditional research.

Future Skills Farming ist von Karola Sakotnik, einer künstlerisch denkenden Frau mit Top Managementerfahrung, entwickelt worden. Zwei Ansätze, um Neues zu gestalten: den kognitiven und den kreativen. High Performance und das menschengerecht. MUTIG MenschSEIN als Haltung, um mit Zuversicht und Vertrauen Großes entstehen zu lassen. Ein Klimawandel zwischen uns Menschen.

Genug vom Hamsterrad? Unternehmenserfolg mit System! Gewinnorientierte Unternehmensführung mit Ziel und Plan. So setzen Sie die richtigen Prioritäten und steigern Ihren Profit. Umsetzung pur – dafür steht Philip Semmelroth. Die traurige Wahrheit ist: Viele Unternehmer verdienen weniger als Angestellte mit vergleichbarer Qualifikation. Die meisten Solo-Selbstständigen schuften für weniger als 3000 Euro im Monat. Philip Semmelroth sagt: Das darf nicht sein! Unternehmerisches Risiko muss sich auszahlen. Wie das funktioniert, zeigt er in diesem Hörbuch.

There is significant evidence that an effective organizational culture provides a major competitive edge—higher levels of employee and customer engagement and loyalty translate into higher growth and profits. Many business leaders know this, yet few are doing much to improve their organizations' cultures. James Heskett demonstrates that an effective culture supplies the trust that makes managing change of all kinds easier. Win from Within offers a playbook for developing and deploying culture that enables outsized results.

Esse livro está repleto de exemplos reais e inspiradores de como líderes em diversos setores e organizações deixaram oceanos vermelhos de competição acirrada e passaram para amplos oceanos azuis em novos mercados aplicando o processo e as ferramentas apresentados aqui. Os autores mostram, passo a passo, como construir a confiança em sua equipe para alcançar e aproveitar o novo crescimento.

Wie erreichen große und kleine Unternehmen weltweit trotz vielfältiger Hindernisse herausragende Leistungen? Wie wurde eine neuseeländische Stahlfirma innerhalb eines Jahres zum führenden Unternehmen in ihrem Bereich? Wie konnte ein japanischer Hausbauer während der Wirtschaftskrise dennoch florieren? Wie hat eine südafrikanische Platin-Mine seine Sicherheitsleistung auf 57 Prozent in einem Jahr verbessern können? All diese Leistungen waren nur möglich durch die konsequente Anwendung von drei Gesetzen.

Innovation used to be seen as a game best left to entrepreneurs, but now a new breed of corporate managers is flipping this logic on its head. These Corporate Explorers have the insight, resilience, and discipline to overcome the obstacles and build new ventures from inside even the largest organizations. Corporate Explorer is a guidebook to the practices that enable these managers to go from idea into action. This actionable and proven framework explains how managers can become successful corporate innovators.

Reimagining Industry Growth offers listeners a blueprint to harnessing the power of leading industry associations as strategic partners. By utilizing those partnerships, business leaders will become able to leverage the collective strength of the supply chain to overcome challenges, address uncertainty, mitigate risks, and position their industries for growth. The book provides an overview of strategic partnerships, how they work, and how they can be applied to industry relationships with trade associations.

Dass an der digitalen Transformation kaum ein Unternehmen vorbeikommt, ist inzwischen allgemein bekannt. Trotzdem bleibt die Frage, wie eine Digitalstrategie konkret aussehen und umgesetzt werden kann. Andreas Holtschulte zieht als Vergleich die Sanierung seines Hauses heran und ermöglicht so einen einfachen Zugang zu dem sehr abstrakten Thema. "Großbaustelle digitale Transformation" zeigt praxisnah, welche Unternehmensbereiche von digitalen Innovationen wie künstlicher Intelligenz profitieren können, wie die Umsetzung gelingt, welche Fallstricke es zu vermeiden gilt und wie die neuen Systeme sicher werden.

Let’s face it: sustained business growth doesn’t just happen. Growth must be planned for and executed, cultivated from a strategic standpoint and applied tactically at the front line, led by the right people, and focused on the right objectives. The Growth Advantage provides a blueprint for sustained and profitable growth for any business. It is designed to help companies build the ultimate competitive edge.

Resilience by Design: How to Survive and Thrive in a Complex and Turbulent World delivers the world's most detailed and research-backed how-to manual to integrate advances from neuroscience and complexity theory with real world expertise, providing practical techniques that you'll want to use every day.

In The Great Lockdown: Lessons Learned During the Pandemic from Organizations Around the Globe, expert strategists Shivaji Das, Aroop Zutshi, and Janesh Janardhanan deliver an insightful exploration of this once-in-a-lifetime event to unearth invaluable learnings for the future. Told through the experiences of CXOs at billion-dollar companies, star start-ups, and nonprofits from around the world, the book chronicles the ups and downs of sophisticated organizations as they navigated the COVID-19 crisis through initiatives impacting people, processes, and technology.

Digital transformation and cyber insecurity are two global trends that converged in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated these global challenges into paradigm-changing realities that threaten to destroy every company, government, network, and individual. But what can be done to embrace the accelerating digital disruption and at the same time manage the explosion of vulnerabilities, cyber threats, and business risks?

New York Times #1 bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, along with coauthors Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich, shows leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context.

Las 4 Disciplinas de la Ejecución fue publicado originalmente en el 2012. Este audiolibro, segundo de nuestro proyecto conjunto con el Editorial Franklin Covey, está basado en un Resumen Exclusivo, de la 2ª edición revisada y actualizada.

Hiring for Diversity: The Guide to Building an Inclusive and Equitable Organization brings together the most cutting-edge practices for implementing a diversity hiring strategy that leaves your organization with a comprehensive view and an actionable plan.

At this moment, rogue waves are forming under your business. Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends are crashing into each other. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. If your competitor can’t ride out the next wave and you can, you win. Jonathan Brill - a renowned expert on resilient growth and decision-making under uncertainty - shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals.

Wie konnte es trotz aller frühzeitigen Warnungen zur Covid-19-Pandemie kommen? Und was sollten wir tun, um künftig noch Schlimmeres zu verhindern? Für den richtigen Umgang mit der Welt nach der Krise müssen wir zum einen verstehen, was an welchen Stellen falsch gelaufen ist. Zum anderen müssen wir uns neu orientieren und die großen Themen der Post-Corona-Welt identifizieren. Georg Vielmetters umfassende Analyse relevanter Trends und Megatrends hilft Entscheiderinnen und Entscheidern in Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft dabei, die Weichen richtig zu stellen. Ein Leitfaden für diejenigen, die unsere Zukunft aktiv gestalten: erhellend und oft überraschend.

As work and organizations have become more fluid - and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about sensing and seizing new opportunities and adapting to a constantly changing environment - companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive. Turning conventional views on their heads, talent and leadership experts Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey provide leaders with a new and different playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent.