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When Yellow Tail wines launched in 2001, they battled 6,500 other wineries for a share of the American market. By 2007, Yellow Tail sales in the United States exceeded the sales of all French wineries combined. How did this new business enter such a crowded market and succeed? If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat! explains how businesses such as Yellow Tail survive and thrive in industries embroiled in "dogfights," intense competition among established...
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The Upside of Turbulence is an enlightening look at the inherent paradox of how to strategize and plan in a turbulent business world where the only thing that doesn't change is change itself. In this book, based on a decade of research, historical case studies, and intensive work with established enterprises and start-ups, Donald Sull, named an "up and coming thinker" by the Financial Times, lays out the fundamental logic of opportunity and provides...
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Good to Great by Jim Collins | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review Preview: What does it take to make something-an activity, a work of art, a company-great? What are the factors that distinguish the merely good from the truly great? In Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't, Jim Collins offers insight into what makes a business truly great…
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Every day, legacy business models and traditional best practices are transforming around us, driven by technologies like AI, blockchain, 5G, and quantum computing that are radically altering our future vision. As a leader and innovator, you're facing an accelerating pace of change that makes it more difficult than ever to navigate the murky future ahead. You need to cut through the noise and hype, but without a playbook to guide you, it's difficult...
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Summary of The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling | Includes Analysis Preview: The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a guide for businesses to reliably commit to the goals and plans they set, authored by associates from FranklinCovey, a management consultancy. Rather than focusing on what a business must accomplish to be successful, the four disciplines establish how to accomplish those things. One reason commitments...
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Los directivos deben saber que hay una riqueza oculta dentro de sus organizaciones y que la pueden encontrar en tres elementos: en su gente, en su creatividad y en la interacción optimizada que se da entre su gente. En 1+1=7, los directivos de las empresas son orientados para descubrir recursos ocultos y aprovechar mejor las inversiones que les permitan obtener un mayor valor y retorno de la inversión (RSI).
Según el autor Baldwin Tom, muchos ejecutivos...
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Complément idéal aux manuels de base des premiers cours de gestion, cet ouvrage présente les concepts et les outils principaux nécessaires pour concevoir et réaliser les analyses sur lesquelles repose la stratégie d'une entreprise en quête d'avantage concurrentiel.
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Planning today is plagued by a lack of imagination. It's often difficult, when working with a business, organization, or any group of people, to upend traditional thinking and unlock new ideas and new possibilities. If you are a strategic planner, or anyone charged with managing growth or facilitating change, it is important to add to your arsenal tools that will allow you to break unhealthy groupthink, avoid old patterns, and escape narrow safe...
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The airline industry is in freefall with COVID-19 restrictions closing international borders. Experts predict that half of the world's airlines could face bankruptcy. What should the airlines do? International consultant and author Ron Bartsch applies 20-20 Thinking and comes up with the solution-start a new domestic airline.
So much about our world has changed beyond recognition in 2020 as the coronavirus upends our lives. We are now faced with...
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Using the simple visual analogy of "moving rocks" and "pushing sand" the author creates a model that helps business owners, executives, and entrepreneurs understand the connection between strategy and execution while giving guidance on what to do about it. It's easy to follow, compelling, and very practical. Better yet, readers won't get caught up in case studies or examples that are interesting but not applicable to their situation. Rock & Sand takes...
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Is your company spending too much time on strategy development - with too little to show for it?
If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to:
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Future Search is among the best-established and most effective methods for enabling people to make and implement ambitious plans. It has been used to redesign IKEA's product pipeline in Sweden, develop an integrated economic development plan in Northern Ireland, and demobilize child soldiers in Southern Sudan. Written by the originators, this book is the most up-to-date account of this powerful change method. This third edition is completely revised,...
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The attention strategic planning has attracted in the recent years is the proof that it is evidently used by successful businesses. Executives and managers alike plan their business objectives and the goals in a strategic manner. Various factors such as competitors, market capture, consumer expectations, etc. have to be studied in depth to take better decisions. Thus, strategic planning has gained importance. A strategic plan helps the business to...
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Summary of Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne | Includes Analysis Preview: Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant is the 2015 update to the classic business strategy text of the same name originally published in 2005. The text offers a practical handbook to business students and entrepreneurs who wish to rise above the fray of the competition, become...
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What kills great strategy? A lack of implementation planning. As the business adage states, successful companies work on processes versus projects. Otherwise, seemingly urgent work gets in the way of real work that is needed to move the strategy forward. Better Implementation Now! shares practical ideas for achieving an implementation plan that leads to better results in a shorter time frame, with more profit and more engagement.
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A common pitfall for organisations is that they – albeit often unknowingly and with the best intentions – create barriers for a successful execution of their strategy by implementing Key Performance Indicators (or KPIs). This comes at the expense of customers and fixing the mistakes takes a lot of time, effort, and money. KPIs don't generate the desired performance improvement and the daily delusions continue to rule the organisation. But working...
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Un negocio, entendido como una lógica de creación de valor, está expuesto tanto a la incertidumbre del entorno, como a la vulnerabilidad humana, independientemente de su naturaleza jurídica, tamaño o sector en el que opera. La tarea de los administradores no puede reducirse a la idea de generar más ingresos o reducir los costos. En ambos casos es necesario tomar consciencia de la importancia que tiene la relación riesgo-estrategia en el modo...
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