The acclaimed authors of Winning show how to galvanize performance, unleash growth, build “wow” teams and create a fulfilling career — and have fun at the same time. In an economy that is changing so rapidly it can feel impossible to keep up, questions abound. Experts espouse theories and concepts, but when it gets right down to it, winning in business is all about mastering … [More]
Changing Your Company from the Inside Out
You’re ambitious. You’re not afraid to take risks. You want to bring about positive social change. And while your peers have left a trail of failed startups in their wake, you want to initiate change from within an established company, where you can have a more far-reaching, even global impact. Welcome to the club — you’re a social intrapreneur. But how do you get started and … [More]
The High-Speed Company
Bestselling author Jason Jennings believes that urgency and speed are keys to the growth of any business. Jennings draws on years of research and 11,000+ in-depth interviews with executives, business owners and CEOs across the country to uncover how successful leaders build a culture that supports constant innovation and growth. Writing in his trademark down-to-earth style, and … [More]
Data-ism
New York Times reporter Steve Lohr explores revolutionary changes being ushered in by big-data technology as vast Internet-scale data sets are used for discovery and prediction in virtually every field. Focusing on young entrepreneurs at the forefront of data science as well as on giant companies such as IBM that are making big bets on data science for the future of their … [More]
New Rules of the Game
The co-founder of HGTV shows how women can achieve their career goals using techniques of gamesmanship. New Rules of the Game provides insights, tips and direction to women in business, based on experiences from author and HGTV co-founder Susan Packard’s own 30-year career, along with that of a dozen other prominent executives. Packard advocates for a revolutionary new … [More]
The Objective Leader
We are all subjective — it’s human nature. We overreact to situations; we judge people too quickly and unfairly; we take something personally when it was not really meant that way. As a result, we lose relationships, reputation, money and peace of mind. And in our ever-more-complex world, leaders must make decisions faster and with more conflicting information; widespread … [More]
Design to Grow
In today’s world, every company is at risk of having a “Kodak Moment” — watching its industry and the competitive advantages it has developed over years, even decades, vanish overnight. The reason? An inability to adapt quickly to new business realities. Established companies are at risk, but it’s no easier being an agile startup because most of those fail due to their … [More]
The Ultimate Competitive Advantage
People are what sustain — or ruin — your brand. If your people are not excited about the company, indifferent or even alienated from it, your competitive advantage will disappear. When you promote a company of proactive and engaged employees who create a winning culture, sustain it, leverage it, and make it work no matter what comes your way, your business rises above the rest. … [More]
Fairness Is Overrated
During the 20 years Tim Stevens served as executive pastor at Granger Community Church near South Bend, Indiana, the ministry grew from a congregation of 300 to more than 5,000; from a staff of five to more than 130; with a preschool, restaurant, three campuses and more than 1,800 new churches planted in southern India. Stevens, now an executive with the Vanderbloemen Search … [More]
The Reputation Economy
Your reputation defines how people see you and what they will do for you. And today, thanks to rapid advances in digital technology, anyone can access huge troves of information about you at any time. In a world where technology allows companies and individuals alike to not only gather all this data but also aggregate it and analyze it with frightening speed, accuracy and … [More]
Bringing Strategy Back
In Bringing Strategy Back, strategy expert Jeffrey Sampler cuts through the clutter to reveal exactly why the usual tools of strategy are so sorely out of sync with our needs: windows of opportunity close far faster than they once did, many of these opportunities are smaller than they once were, growth rates are uneven across markets, and today’s competition is more … [More]
Strategize to Win
Wall Street veteran Carla Harris gives readers the tools they need to get started, get “unstuck” from bad situations, redirect momentum and position themselves to manage their careers no matter the environment. With her trademark galvanizing advice, Harris identifies and clarifies issues that are often murky, offering lessons on identifying and making the most of one’s work … [More]
The 5 Choices
The time management experts at FranklinCovey share their five critical techniques for avoiding distractions and paying focused attention to our most important goals and tasks in our daily lives. Every day brings businesspeople a crushing wave of demands — not to mention the high-pressure demands of our jobs — that can be overwhelming and exhausting. The sheer number of … [More]
Think Agile
Funding falls apart. A similar product is unveiled by a more established company. A key employee jumps ship to work for a competitor. These are the unexpected obstacles that derail even the most promising new ventures. Entrepreneurs determined to keep up with today’s constantly changing business environment need to stay nimble enough to shift their strategies, products and … [More]
Critical Knowledge Transfer
When highly skilled subject matter experts, engineers and managers leave their organizations, they take with them years of hard-earned, experience-based knowledge — much of it undocumented and irreplaceable. Organizations can thereby lose a good part of their competitive advantage. The tsunami of “Boomer” retirements has created the most visible, urgent need to transfer such … [More]
Succession
Tichy draws on decades of hands-on experience working with CEOs and boards to provide a framework for building a smart, effective transition pipeline, whether for a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate, a family business, a small startup or a nonprofit. Through revealing case studies like Hewlett Packard, IBM, Yahoo, P&G, Intel and J.C. Penney, he examines why some companies … [More]
Millennials & Management
As management ages and prepares to work longer than previous generations and Millennials join companies at steady rate, companies are suffering through tension and dissonance between Millennials and Boomers, and realizing that they can’t just wait for management to age out to fix it. This book addresses a very real concern of large and small businesses nationwide: how to … [More]
Millennial Money
The Millennial Generation will not be able to rely on pensions and social security in retirement. Instead, they will have to save and invest in the global stock market to meet their goals. To build wealth, young people must start investing early and buck conventional market wisdom. Millennial Money will explain the most common mistakes that hurt investors’ long-term returns and … [More]
