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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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The first prescriptive, innovative guide to seeing inflection points before they happen—and how to harness these disruptive influences to give your company a strategic advantage.
Paradigmatic shifts in the business landscape, known as inflection points, can either create new, entrepreneurial opportunities (see Amazon and Netflix) or they can lead to devastating consequences (e.g., Blockbuster and Toys R Us). Only those...
Paradigmatic shifts in the business landscape, known as inflection points, can either create new, entrepreneurial opportunities (see Amazon and Netflix) or they can lead to devastating consequences (e.g., Blockbuster and Toys R Us). Only those...
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Meet John Downs. He's a new MBA graduate who's landed a job with a strategy consultancy. His engagement team is on a mission: help HGS Inc., a specialty chemicals firm, define and execute a strategy for exploiting a textile technology the company developed.
John and his team deploy state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze the attractiveness of potential markets for the technology. But they soon realize the tools don't help them grapple with the...
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Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors
A Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. An innovation classic. From Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, Clay Christensen's work continues to underpin today's most innovative leaders and organizations.
The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned...
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In this comprehensive playbook, Strategy in the Digital Age: How to Disrupt or Respond to Disruptors, boards, CEOs, business leaders, executives, MBAs, consultants, incumbents, and startups will master the game-changing strategies for winning through rare insights, practical strategy and disruption frameworks -- such as "The Disruption Barometer for Strategic Responses" and "The Strategy Equation."
· Incumbents will discover the powerful tools for...
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If your business is stalled and you find you're spending more time solving problems than executing growth strategies, it's time to answer the 20 High Performance Questions. Honest answers will map your business' route to your new destination of high profit and durable value while leaving your company in the dust.
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Sightline spells out the why and the how of collaborative strategy building.
This is a book about strategic sightlines. It's about establishing a line of sight between where you are now and where your organization wants to be. And, it's about mapping a route to get there with a group. It's a book about collaborative strategic planning. After all, strategy is perhaps the most important sightline of all, and it's only as strong as your ability to execute...
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You want your business to grow. But don't confuse growth with expansion. To be sure, increased size can be an important component (or fortuitous by-product) of business success, but companies that expand too much, too quickly, or too myopically may soon find themselves too big for their britches. What, then, is real growth? Simply put, it's progress, and it is based on moving the business beyond the self-imposed limits that have come to define and...
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The Blueprint to Conquer Complexity and Accelerate Results: Don't wait for your SOS moment before you attack the Complexity Monster. This book shows how you can build the organizational capability to perceive, plan, align around, and (amidst complexity) implement the highest-priority changes that will keep your business at the edge of its competitive max. With the advice in this book you can not only make your business system better today, but also...
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Esta publicación es resultado de un trabajo colectivo entre diversos investigado-res nacionales e internacionales, articulados por el interés de reflexionar sobre el valor de los procesos relacionados con lo humano como elementos esenciales para el desarrollo organizacional y la calidad de vida laboral. El valor que repre-sentan las personas en cualquier tipo de organización las vuelve epicentro funda-mental para la competitividad y el fortalecimiento...
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This is the sixth consecutive year publishing the Shaman's Journal. It is a compilation of best-read blog posts from the prior twelve-month period. The Supply Chain Shaman blog, now in its tenth year, has over 19,000 readers. The focus is to help business leaders drive improvements in supply chain excellence.
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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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Summary of Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne | Includes Analysis Preview: Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant is the 2015 update to the classic business strategy text of the same name originally published in 2005. The text offers a practical handbook to business students and entrepreneurs who wish to rise above the fray of the competition, become...
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The attention strategic planning has attracted in the recent years is the proof that it is evidently used by successful businesses. Executives and managers alike plan their business objectives and the goals in a strategic manner. Various factors such as competitors, market capture, consumer expectations, etc. have to be studied in depth to take better decisions. Thus, strategic planning has gained importance. A strategic plan helps the business to...
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Un negocio, entendido como una lógica de creación de valor, está expuesto tanto a la incertidumbre del entorno, como a la vulnerabilidad humana, independientemente de su naturaleza jurídica, tamaño o sector en el que opera. La tarea de los administradores no puede reducirse a la idea de generar más ingresos o reducir los costos. En ambos casos es necesario tomar consciencia de la importancia que tiene la relación riesgo-estrategia en el modo...
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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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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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