The Breakthrough Company: How Everyda...
Keith McFarlandThe vast majority of small businesses stay small—and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent—a tiny one tenth of one percent—break through to annual sales above $250 million. In The Breakthrough Company, Ke...
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achie...
Chris McChesneyBy the time it finally disappeared, it's likely no one even noticed.What happened? The "whirlwind" of urgent activity required to keep things running day-to-day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest in execut...
The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways t...
Jay AbrahamBusinesses can plateau, stall, or stagnate…without the owners or key executives even realizing it. A business might be achieving incremental year-on-year growth and yet still be in a situation of stagnation or stall. Why? Because ...
Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can ...
Paul CarrollIn the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, "Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure...
Three Moves Ahead: What Chess Can Tea...
Bob RiceIn today's fast-moving Information Age, traditional business-planning tools are rapidly becoming obsolete. Yet the competitive, ever-changing marketplace demands that executives move quickly or risk becoming relics. In Three Moves Ahe...
Mastermind Group Blueprint: How to St...
Tobe BrocknerWhat did Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, and other giants in the business world have in common? They all used the power of Mastermind Groups to explosively grow their businesses. "Mastermind Group Blueprint" show...
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing ...
Erik BrynjolfssonFrom the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age, a leader's guide to success in a rapidly changing economy.We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Googl...
A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do? In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impr...
Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind ...
Mark PennMark Penn argues that the biggest trends in America are the Microtrends, the smaller trends that go unnoticed or ignored. One million people can create new market for a business, spark a social movement, or effect political change. In...
Three Moves Ahead: What Chess Can Tea...
Bob RiceIn today's fast-moving Information Age, traditional business-planning tools are rapidly becoming obsolete. Yet the competitive, ever-changing marketplace demands that executives move quickly or risk becoming relics. In Three Moves Ahe...
Why Plans Fail: Why Business Decision...
Jim BensonBusiness runs on decisions. Business relies on estimates, plans, and projections - and we all know how accurate they tend to be. Careers are made, careers are broken based on perceived accuracy in estimation and planning. But what if ...
Winning the Week: How To Plan A Succe...
Demir BentleyHow can we be working harder yet still be falling behind? It doesn't have to be that way. Productivity power couple Demir and Carey Bentley have shown more than 50,000 busy people how to take charge of the chaos with a groundbreaki...
Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art ...
Patrick Bet-DavidFrom the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles) in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking ...
Trust Agents (Revised and Updated): U...
Chris BroganThere's no question that the Internet has changed the way we do business-especially when it comes to marketing. Consumer environments are short on trust and populated by consumers who are cynical, savvy, and informed. Though it's easi...
Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build ...
Chris BroganThe New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller-now in a new, updated paperback editionToday's online influencers are Web natives who trade in trust, reputation, and relationships, using social media to accrue the influence that...
3HAG WAY: The Strategic Execution Sys...
Shannon Byrne SuskoEvery company needs a 3HAG—a 3 Year Highly Achievable Goal! The 3HAG WAY is a prescriptive framework that takes the guessing out of your strategy and ensures that you and your whole team are confident in where you are going. It brea...
Future Smart: Managing the Game-Chang...
James CantonGame-changing trends are coming in business, technology, workforce, economy, security, and environment. Climate change, energy demand, and population growth will redefine global risk and power. Exponential new technologies will emerge...
Your Creative Mind: How to Disrupt Yo...
Scott CochraneToo many companies limit their strategic thinking by focusing on what they already know how to do. Executives are expected to set concrete objectives and create detailed, step-by-step plans to reach them. This approach may satisfy sho...
Turning Goals Into Results: The Power...
Jim CollinsMost executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. But they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy that prevent them from realizing it. In this article, Jim Collins introduces the catalytic mechanism, a simple yet powerful manageri...
Building a Better Business: The Key t...
Patrick DixonHow to build a better business by one of today's most influential business thinkers.
No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Glob...
Richard DobbsOur intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find their defenses easily breached, or vast new markets are conjured ...
The Art of Ideas: Creative Thinking f...
William DugganGreat ideas don't just happen. Innovation springs from creative thinking―a method of the human mind that we can study and learn. In The Art of Ideas, William Duggan and Amy Murphy bring together business concepts with stories of cre...
Success Unwrapped Direct Sellers' A-Z...
Shannon FerrabyShannon is commonly asked: "Where do you find all the shows?", "What should I bring?", "Can I actually make money and build a business doing this?" She unwraps the answers to these questions and many more, in this much needed resource...
Strategic Intent (Harvard Business Re...
Gary HamelIn this article, renowned management experts Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad introduce their approach to strategic planning in the face of tough competition. With advice on tailoring your company's strategy and developing the will to wi...
Thinking Strategically: Expert Soluti...
Harvard Business PressTo be a successful manager, you need to master the skills that characterize strategic thinking--from examining situations to interpreting information--and know how to apply those skills on the job. In Thinking Strategically, you'll le...
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster F...
Joi ItoThis "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist. The wor...
What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engine...
Jeff Jarvis"Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening."—USA Today"An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era."—Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody"A stimulating exercise in think...
Think Big, ACT Small: How America's B...
Jason JenningsTradition says there are three ways to grow a company's profits: Fire up the sales team with empty promises, cut costs and downsize, or cook the books. But what if there's a better way—a way that nine amazingly profitable and well-r...
Kill the First Tiger a Common Sense B...
Michael F. JohnsonKill The First Tiger is a book about running your business more effectively. Author Michael Johnson uses a collection of entertaining stories to bring common sense back to business. It is an intellectual and interesting way to look at...
Creative Community Organizing: A Guid...
Si KahnWith a Little Creativity, Everyday People Can Change the World If you yearn to help make the world a better place but wonder how to do it, look no further. In this unique book, legendary organizer and musician Si Kahn regales us with...