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Whether you're a business beginner with big ideas or an established company looking to review you plans in a changing business environment this practical, user friendly guide gives you everything you need to get started. Complete with an interactive CD packed with planning templates including; planning documents, forms, financial worksheets, checklists, operation surveys and customer profiles in both Word and PDF formats you'll be armed with all you...
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The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. Many translations have been made, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than other martial artists and people across East Asia. For instance, some foreign business leaders find its discussion of conflict and taking the advantage to be relevant to their work in a business context....
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Get the Summary of Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Good Strategy Bad Strategy" by Richard Rumelt dissects the essence of true strategic thinking versus the pitfalls of bad strategy. The book illustrates effective strategy through historical and corporate examples, emphasizing the importance of a unified approach that aligns actions with clear objectives. Apple's resurgence...
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A new approach to designing simple and powerful strategy by harnessing organizational talent and creativity.
Strategy is important, but it's not easy to come up with fresh ideas needed for success, let alone bring them to life. Uncertainty about the future, the pressure of competition, risk aversion, and those boring planning meetings employees sit through sap confidence and enthusiasm and produce timid templates for maintaining status quo.
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Summary of The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling | Includes Analysis Preview: The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a guide for businesses to reliably commit to the goals and plans they set, authored by associates from FranklinCovey, a management consultancy. Rather than focusing on what a business must accomplish to be successful, the four disciplines establish how to accomplish those things. One reason commitments...
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When Yellow Tail wines launched in 2001, they battled 6,500 other wineries for a share of the American market. By 2007, Yellow Tail sales in the United States exceeded the sales of all French wineries combined. How did this new business enter such a crowded market and succeed? If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat! explains how businesses such as Yellow Tail survive and thrive in industries embroiled in "dogfights," intense competition among established...
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Ya eres directivo, '¡enhorabuena!', ¿sabes qué es ser directivo? ¿qué tienes que hacer cada día? ¿cómo se mide tu rendimiento? ¿y quién de dirige a ti? ¿y cómo se dirige a uno mismo? Es evidente: necesitas un método. Este es un libro para mejorar la productividad y la efectividad del directivo y que consiga mejorar la 'fabricación de beneficios' de su empresa. Un método para construir un sistema. El presente libro presenta un método...
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Good to Great by Jim Collins | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review Preview: What does it take to make something-an activity, a work of art, a company-great? What are the factors that distinguish the merely good from the truly great? In Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't, Jim Collins offers insight into what makes a business truly great…
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Every day, legacy business models and traditional best practices are transforming around us, driven by technologies like AI, blockchain, 5G, and quantum computing that are radically altering our future vision. As a leader and innovator, you're facing an accelerating pace of change that makes it more difficult than ever to navigate the murky future ahead. You need to cut through the noise and hype, but without a playbook to guide you, it's difficult...
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Application of Lean principles to office processes is now established as an improvement method. However, it is tempting to take the approach that has been successful in the factory and apply it to the office without considering the nuances of this different setting. This book provides solutions to challenges such as:
• Lack alignment of strategy
• Understanding customer value as it applies to office processes
• Recognising personal benefit to...
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Make money from your business idea, inventions, products and brands. By making the right decisions at the right times you can turn your ideas into gold. This is a business book about all aspects of trademarks, copyright, employee fraud, protecting your inventions and technology and why it is so important to understand intellectual property and what it can do for your business. You'll learn:1. How to Spot it2. What it's worth3. When to share it4. How...
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IS YOUR BUSINESS STAGNATING? DO YOU WANT TO KICKSTART GROWTH? HERE IS THE ANSWER!
Every company has growing pains. When you are the owner or senior management of a small to medium-sized business, just running your business can keep you from focusing on its growth potential and taking the steps to get there. In Size Does Matter: Grow Your Business, Thinking Big, Rony Pawar takes you on a step-by-step journey to set your business up for success and...
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Nothing has rocked the foundations of the world, including the business world, more than the COVID- 19 pandemic. As businesses struggle and often flounder to cope, many business leaders are wondering how to deal with the unpredictable. How do you plan for something you can't predict? Strategist Lance Mortlock says you can, and you should.
In this practical and accessible guide, Mortlock shows how scenario planning can identify risks and uncertainties,...
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A common pitfall for organisations is that they – albeit often unknowingly and with the best intentions – create barriers for a successful execution of their strategy by implementing Key Performance Indicators (or KPIs). This comes at the expense of customers and fixing the mistakes takes a lot of time, effort, and money. KPIs don't generate the desired performance improvement and the daily delusions continue to rule the organisation. But working...
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What kills great strategy? A lack of implementation planning. As the business adage states, successful companies work on processes versus projects. Otherwise, seemingly urgent work gets in the way of real work that is needed to move the strategy forward. Better Implementation Now! shares practical ideas for achieving an implementation plan that leads to better results in a shorter time frame, with more profit and more engagement.
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Is your company spending too much time on strategy development - with too little to show for it?
If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to:
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Future Search is among the best-established and most effective methods for enabling people to make and implement ambitious plans. It has been used to redesign IKEA's product pipeline in Sweden, develop an integrated economic development plan in Northern Ireland, and demobilize child soldiers in Southern Sudan. Written by the originators, this book is the most up-to-date account of this powerful change method. This third edition is completely revised,...
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