Career Strategy

This book takes an entertaining approach to teaching practical strategies for success in everyday decision-making. Its 101 lessons can change your life by teaching you to see competition from a completely new perspective. The book is full of stories, jokes, and quotes based on strategic principles that go back 2,500 years to Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

We all use strategy in our everyday lives—whether in business, sports, games, pursuing a potential partner, politics, arms races, peace negotiations, or even personal disagreements. This book distills twelve years of research, interviews, and analysis into a comprehensive guide on the essence of strategy. It concisely outlines the most critical elements of strategy and presents over 300 real-world examples of strategic and tactical applications.

Companies are fighting the wrong battle. The consensus has been to learn the best practices from Big Tech and imitate them. But new paths for growth aren't created by imitation; they're forged by radical differentiation. In Smart Rivals, Harvard Business School professor Feng Zhu and former Bloomberg journalist Bonnie Cao show business leaders how to create new competitive advantages by offering product features and benefits that tech giants and other competitors cannot match.

The Divine SelfQare Strategy: A Wellness Guide to Total Body Alignment creates a paradigm shift in ways that present and future generations of youth can pursue health and wellness. By looking beyond surface beauty such as facials, manicures, and pedicures, they can refocus on ancient wellness traditions that naturally beautify the body, balance the spirit, and rejuvenate the mind.

How smart companies are opening up strategic initiatives to involve front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors.

This is the book every business owner should have readily available. If you're a business owner, the truth is that at some point you will exit the business. Don t take that step lightly. Being prepared is key, and Jerry L. Mills takes you through a step-by-step process to help you get the most out of your business. With the impending Baby Boomer Tsunami in the next few years, there will be more businesses for sale than at any other point in history. This buyers market will cause great competition. Are you prepared to get out? Make sure you have an in with The Exit Strategy Handbook.

Balancing the short term and the long term is a perennial struggle, but new developments put boards squarely at the center of this dilemma and in need of guidance. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors. These so-called passive investors (unlike activist investors, passive investors don't have power to exit the fund) own almost 60 percent of the Fortune 500 - and they have found their voice.

The purpose of strategic planning is to set the overall long-term aim of a firm in a direction that allows it to compete and grow. Strategic planning is an old concept, with many variations of models and processes. Leaders have used many of these models and processes for years, and still, some leaders fail to effectively apply them. This is often due to the difficulty in applying the models and the lack of explanation for the significant relevance of the processes, including the tools used in each phase.

We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world that calls for a paradigm shift in the style of leadership. The new world needs leaders who are purposeful, agile, flexible, cooperative, humble and helpful. Leadership, therefore, is as much about soft skills as hard skills...

Some say business strategy is 50 percent art and 50 percent science. The truth is probably closer to 65 percent art and 35 percent science, but the science of strategy remains critical. While art must be developed from within, science can be taught - and it forms the foundation of any business strategy. In The Strategy Mindset, strategy consultant, author, and internationally renowned speaker, Dr. Chuck Bamford, provides a simple yet practical guide to creating corporate strategy using well researched and battle-tested approaches.

This audiobook is a comprehensive guide to navigating leadership in the real world, blending traditional theories with practical, real-life experiences. Written from the perspective of someone who learned leadership on the job rather than in classrooms, it highlights the importance of emotional intelligence, adaptability, and continuous learning in effective leadership.

Every leader and team can use Building Strategic Organizations to deepen their understanding of essential strategy topics. You can also use these five tools to quickly develop a robust strategic plan that aligns your on-the-ground work with your strategy, priorities, and vision. Build the strategic capacity and employee engagement of your entire workforce by making sure they know why they come to work, what is most important, and what progress is being made.

Are you a leader, entrepreneur, or professional ready to elevate your impact in high-stakes environments? Do you want to understand what truly makes people tick in business—and use that insight to inspire action and trust? Charisma Unlocked is your gateway to mastering business psychology and becoming a magnetic presence in every room.

An award-winning author and Stanford writing instructor demystifies the business of writing with this practical, procedural guide to creating successful pitches, impressing editors and agents, negotiating compensation, and more. Published multi-genre writer Laura Goode had an epiphany after...

The Strategy Book will help you rethink this digital planet and the process of strategy creation. It contains 20 quick-to-listen notes on how to create a strategic mind-set by applying six steps. Following each step are activities designed to future-proof your business.

Cybersecurity is one of the world’s fastest growing, most exciting fields—but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to enter the industry and succeed. Now there’s a complete guide to creating a great cybersecurity career, whether you’re migrating to cybersecurity from another field or already a cybersecurity professional.

As award-winning club consultants working with clubs and communities across the country, we noticed themes and patterns of excellence and struggles. One of the common denominators was a lack of understanding about human behavior. The industry focuses on the what, but misses the opportunity to explain the why or how.

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the fifth century BCE). The work, attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (Sunzi), comprises 13 chapters, each devoted to an aspect of warfare and its application to military tactics and strategy. It contains a detailed analysis of the Chinese military, from weapons and strategy to rank and discipline as well as the importance of intelligence and espionage in war.

Every year, managers at companies large and small are finding it harder to compete with the likes of Google and Amazon, who are stealing their customers and cornering every conceivable market and service. There is, however, a way for companies to survive - and win - in this era of digital behemoths. Choose Your Customer is a powerful customer-targeted guide that can help managers level the playing field against their biggest competitors.

The Strategy Implementation Gap is a guide for executives on how to have a sustainable approach to the right people doing the right things in the right way to achieve the right results.