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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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Like many companies over the last few years, yours has probably done a great deal to reassess its physical, strategic, and financial vulnerabilities. But there is a huge difference between business continuity planning and true crisis management. Do your company and employees have the necessary ""IQ"" not only to withstand a crisis but also to come through it with strength and confidence? Ian Mitroff, recognized around the world as an authority in...
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As sure the sun will rise, the stock market will go up and down, housing prices will rise and fall, and jobs will come and go. Whether you are facing an uncertain economic future, affected by a downturn in the economy, or just seeking to supplement your existing income, Recession Proof Income-Cleaning Up in the Commercial Office Cleaning Business, is a must read for you.
You may ask yourself, why should I read this book? What makes the commercial...
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It's getting tougher to develop a winning formula in today's business world. Competition is fierce. Customers are demanding, fickle and unpredictable and employees are looking for insightful and caring leadership. In response, extreme energy in most organizations is spent on trying to develop the "perfect" strategy or Plan that, due to its superb strategic essence, is viewed by all as a "slam dunk" to succeed. Unfortunately, the Plan, regardless of...
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Planning Management provides readers with a concise and practical overview of planning management. Covering the fundamentals of planning, this book introduces the various aspects of planning management including plan analysis and evaluation, the steps involved in the planning process, strategic and tactical planning, long-term versus short-term planning, forecasting and trend analysis, SWOT analysis, contingency planning, and the effective use of...
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Summary of The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly | Includes Analysis Preview: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future is Kevin Kelly's in-depth exploration of the imminent changes on the technological horizon that will ultimately impact all of humanity. Inevitability, in this context, is defined as a pattern that is unquestionably trending forward due to the ways in which technological developments favor certain...
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Scenario planning helps organization leaders, executives and decision-makers envision and develop strategies for multiple possible futures instead of just one. It enables organizations to become resilient and agile, carefully calibrating their responses and adapting quickly to new circumstances in a fast-changing environment. This book is the most comprehensive treatment to date of the scenario planning process. Unlike existing books it offers a thorough...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The author attended his first big investment conference and heard a prominent hedge fund manager predict that low-cost, systematic investment strategies would become available to the public. This would lead to a sea change in the investment management industry.
#2 The author was a finance rookie, and could not understand why experienced investors would not be excited...
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Strategy is only as brilliant as its execution. Strategy execution is the last competitive advantage, and strength, speed and agility in execution are more important than a perfectly mapped-out strategy based on feasibility and predictability.
80% how-to with 50 innovation methods and new business models.
Strategy = Execution is for leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs who view strategy execution as their principal job instead of strategy definition....
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For the right people, family business is the best way to become wealthy, to cultivate human capacity, and to make an impact on the world. It can be incredibly satisfying, and at times, even fun to work with the ones whom you love the most. Rewarding, satisfying, and sometimes even fun. But not easy.
In Family Business Abundance you'll be introduced to successful multigenerational families, and a comprehensive management system you can employ to strengthen...
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Conventional wisdom on strategy is no longer a reliable guide. In Essential Advantage, Booz & Company's Cesare Mainardi and Paul Leinwand maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with coherence: a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.
Achieving this clarity takes a sharpness of focus that only exceptional companies have mastered. This book helps you identify your firm's blend of strategic...
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Everything happens for a reason, and the reason that everything that has happened to poor people, from their journey in Africa, to slavery in America, from the civil rights movement, to becoming the prisoners of poverty in the ghettos of America, is for all poor people to rise up, together, and claim their birthright, which is the birthright of every American. Just a tactful, judicious, carefully planned, intelligent, respectful, sophisticated, shrewd,...
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As we approach the twenty-first century, the requirement for
business planning has never been clearer. Organizations today
stood up to with expanding aggressive weights, perpetually
requesting clients, and quickening and intermittent change.
Given the new economic substances, planning can't be a
dynamic activity or a formal movement. Planning must shape
the establishment guaranteeing that the business will involve
those activities required to set...
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As a top executive, you've almost certainly forged strategic alliances with other companies. Some of these deals have worked -- but many others have likely failed. In fact, companies worldwide launch more than two thousand strategic alliances every year, and more than half never deliver as promised.
In Strategic Alliances, Steve Steinhilber proves that, despite the odds, alliances are critical to the business strategy for companies competing globally:...
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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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Imagine, if you can, the world of business - without corporate strategy.
Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scale engineering project without knowing the laws of physics.
But in the 1960s, four mavericks and their posses instigated a profound shift in thinking that turbocharged...
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In Inclusion: STILL the Competitive Business Advantage, Shirley Engelmeier continues her contributions to thought leadership on the importance of inclusion in an environment that has been roiled with new discussion–and new dissent–amid rapidly changing demographics, continually emerging technology and a global economy that is continually shifting to favor newly emerging market powerhouses. Within this framework one thing remains a constant–the...
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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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