Career Strategy

I can tell you that there are a plethora of strategy books out there. However, you’ll find many of them arcane, academic, and even confusing. Most were written a long time ago and use out-of-date examples from well before the tech age. Many are no longer relevant. For the past five years, I’ve been obsessed by the idea of creating a strategy operating system, and I’ve spent the past 12 months figuring out how to design one.

In today’s world of rapid, disruptive change, strategy can’t be separate from execution - it has to emerge from execution. You have to continually adjust your strategy to fit new realities. But if your organization isn’t set up to be fast on its feet, you could easily go the way of Blockbuster or Borders. Laura Stack shows you how to quickly drive strategic initiatives and get great results from your team. Stack will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and inspiration to help you hit the ground running!

People Strategy: How to Invest in People and Make Culture Your Competitive Advantage provides listeners with a powerful framework in which to develop high-performing teams, increase employee motivation, and use data to build an inviting and effective company culture. Author Jack Altman, cofounder and CEO of Lattice, an award-winning HR and performance management platform, shows you how to: establish the values that will form the bedrock of your organization; develop feedback processes that help employees feel heard, supported, and equipped to succeed; and more.

Written from the point of view of someone achieving business success in today's turbulent economy, Forget Strategy. Get Results offers you a fresh way of thinking about successfully managing any sort of business, under any conditions. Controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining, it delivers TelecityGroup founder and CEO Michael Tobin's OBE unconventional approach to management and shares the lessons he's learned on his path to building one of the world's largest data center provider companies.

For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War. Sun Tzu’s ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world forever at odds, his rules for anticipating the motivations and strategies of our competitors never cease to inspire leaders of all kinds.

How did Apple rebound from a decade-long slump? By creating a product, the iPod, that transformed not just the company, but the entire music industry. How did Whole Foods turn itself into a supermarket empire? By challenging the sacred cows of the food business. And how did Dove differentiate its line of beauty products? By creating the concept of "real beauty". In Big Think Strategy, Bernd Schmitt shows you how to "think big" by sourcing and implementing bold ideas that change markets.

To ascend the social hierarchies and achieve great power, you need to optimize and strategize rather than slogging and "working hard" every day of your life. This is counterproductive since it does not guarantee any beneficial results in the end. "Nobody can succeed by following rules in the first place. Rules were made by those the elites and those who have power to prevent the average masses below them and prevent them from succeed and gain power." Therefore, in order to do so and to make it among the top, you have to be ruthless and employ any tactic you know.

War of the Ecosystems is your essential guide to navigating and dominating today’s Ecosystem-driven marketplace. Dr. Alejandro Canonero is an industry expert with a proven track record in building business ecosystems across multiple continents who reveals the strategies executives and tech leaders need to gain the upper hand in an ever-evolving technology landscape.

Traditionally, human resources has focused on recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them. These functions remain essential. But to be successful in turbulent times like ours, human capital strategy needs to be broader and much more far reaching.

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.

Knowing how to negotiate and persuade your client or boss to say yes to what you want is no longer difficult, if you follow the step-by-step strategy in this guide to position yourself in a win-win situation. Unlike other guides, this one will provide key negotiation and persuasion techniques to start right away to strengthen your ability to influence people to achieve your desired outcome with greater success.

Farming’s number one mental barrier is entitlement. We inherit farms from our grandparents and just assume we’ll gift it to our grandchildren. Just because your family had a successful farm 10 years ago doesn’t mean you’ll still be farming in 10 years. In order to still be farming in 2040, you’ve got to assume that you are the underdog! Armed with this mindset and the three tools in this book, your family can implement radical changes that gives you the competitive edge that bulletproofs your farm against anything.

Stand out from other candidates and gain access to the hidden job market. With his no-nonsense style, recruitment expert Mike Adamo will teach you the skills to sell yourself and get the job you want. Regardless of whether you are employed yet, feeling unsatisfied, or actively seeking your next opportunity, Mike will give you the tools to build your network, hone your interview skills, and take control of your career.

Picture this: You wake up, grab your phone, and open Instagram, tap the plus icon at the bottom of the screen, select a photo, add a filter and a caption, tap "publish", and you call it a day. Thirty minutes later, you get a notification from PayPal: "Someone sent you $500". Would you like your average "workday" to look like this? See, contrary to what you believe, you don’t need to be an artist, a comedian, or a particularly attractive individual to get paid on Instagram.

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.

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.

Based on extensive primary research conducted over more than fifteen years, this book documents the differential contribution of HP's successive CEOs in sustaining the company's integral process of becoming. It uses a comprehensive strategic leadership framework to examine and explain the role of the CEO: (1) defining and executing the key tasks of strategic leadership, and (2) developing four key elements of the company's strategic leadership capability.

Company culture is what gets people excited to come to work each day - yes, excited! Healthy company culture is the key to transform your workplace from the mundane, boring, and average into the extraordinary and superbly productive place of your dreams. Once you understand company culture and how to implement it into your workplace, it’s simply a matter of consistency before every one of your coworkers begins beaming with joy.

Feeling stressed, anxious, or depressed? Worrying or procrastinating? Trying to help someone else who is? Maybe you have decided that things need to change. Looking for support in your quest to feel better? The huge number of self-help books offering to inspire and motivate you can be overwhelming. Take a look at what is offered here - your search may be over! With everyday language and plenty of humor, Andy offers a genuine opportunity to improve your outlook on life, helping you to feel empowered in your improving self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-belief.

Winners in business aren't the ones who do the most things; the winners are the ones who do the most important things. Be the Best at What Matters Most is about the one essential strategy for those who are or want to be business leaders, entrepreneurs, owners, or managers. Simplify, focus, and win by outperforming all your competition on those things that create real value for the customer. This is about substance, not flash, and the ultimate "wow" factors of high-quality performance, consistency, and relentless improvement.