The 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...

By 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...

Businesses 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 ...

In 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...

In 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...

What 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...

From 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...

Mark 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...

In 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...

Business 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 ...

How 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...

From 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 ...

There'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...

The 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...

Every 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...

Game-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...

Too 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...

Most 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...

How to build a better business by one of today's most influential business thinkers.

Our 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 ...

Great 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...

Shannon 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...

In 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...

To 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...

This "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...

"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...

Tradition 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 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...

With 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...