Discover the leadership strengths of world-class mountain guides and see how developing and applying these principles can help one reach for the highest summits in work — and in life. Maxwell teaches key leadership lessons gained from a decade spent traveling with world-class mountain guides and more than 200 top business school participants. He shares insights drawn from … [More]
5% More
5% More presents a painless route to change, with results that can last a lifetime. Whether the goal is to boost health, wealth or wisdom, this book reveals a key technique that makes it stick. Breaking big goals into small chunks makes them easier to achieve, but the trick is in making those chunks large enough to be productive yet small enough to be sustainable. This book … [More]
Scrappy
Paying one’s dues and plugging away may gain a person enough experience through “the school of hard knocks” to be successful. But for those who want to reach their goals faster, earn more, beat the odds — and do it with class and style — it’s time to get scrappy. Scrappy people see big problems and come up with big solutions. Or they see ordinary challenges and find a new path … [More]
Navigating the Talent Shift
By 2020, 40 percent of the workforce won’t want to be someone’s employee. That means managers and executives have to forget the old recruit-and-search-for-months methods to acquire talent and revise their perception that “talent” is only full-time employees. The good news is that this talent allows businesses to achieve the biggest impact on projects in the fastest time … [More]
Predictable Prospecting
If an organization’s success is driven by B2B sales, its sales force need to be expert prospectors to successfully target, qualify and close business opportunities. This game-changing guide provides the immediately implementable strategies needed to build a solid, sustainable pipeline — aimed at sales and marketing executives, team leaders, and sales representatives. It teaches … [More]
Reflections on Progress
This is a thought-provoking series of essays written for Project Syndicate from 2011 to 2015. The essays are organized into three sections: global economic interdependence, inequality and the political economy of reform, and the specific challenge of Europe. The common theme is the need for growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking in an interdependent world. These … [More]
Value as a Service
Across a host of industries, we will move to a model that Bernshteyn calls value as a service. It is already common knowledge that many traditional-products companies are converting the delivery of their offerings to the as-a-service model. With the completion of this transition assumed, the coming disruption will focus less on the delivery model and more on the value … [More]
Growing Jobs
This book provides concrete examples and practical guidelines for addressing the most serious economic challenge facing the United States and every community in the nation: growing good jobs and enabling people to function effectively in these occupations. It lays out a methodology that enables each community to find its unique path toward the common vision of an economy that … [More]
Empire of the Fund
This book is an exposé and examination of the way we save now. With the rise of the 401(k) and demise of the pension, the United States has embarked upon the richest and riskiest experiment in our financial history. Over the next 20 years, nearly 80 million baby boomers will retire at a pace of 10,000 per day. The hypothesis of our experiment is that millions of ordinary, … [More]
The Network Imperative
Digital networks are changing all the rules of business. New, scalable, digitally networked business models, like those of Amazon, Google, Uber and Airbnb, are affecting growth, scale and profit potential for companies in every industry. But this seismic shift isn’t unique to digital startups and tech superstars. Digital transformation is affecting every business sector, and, … [More]
