Forecasting & Strategic Planning

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 more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals. Both...

In every industry, there are companies that take off. They effortlessly hire talented people, attract loyal customers, create cool products...

Playing to Win outlines a proven method that has worked for some of today’s most celebrated brands and products. Let this book serve as your new guide to winning, as well....

The runaway best seller The Millionaire Next Door told us who America's wealthy really are. The Millionaire Mind tells how they got there, and how to become one of them...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result in “the ultimate guide to thinking about risk” (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit). “A big favorite among...

From Harnish's famous One-Page Strategic Plan to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the planet....

Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into 19 languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world.

Zone to Win is a high-powered tool for driving your company above and beyond its limitations, its definitions of success, and ultimately, its competitors....

In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success....

From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions....

The Art of War dates back to the fifth century BC, and is an ancient Chinese military handbook. Attributed to the intelligent military strategist Sun Tzu it is still one of the most influential strategy texts....

Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.

Das unverzichtbare Handbuch für den Manager. Viele Managementbücher handeln davon, andere zu führen. Thema dieses Hörbuches ist dagegen...

As Harvard Business School's Linda Hill and manager and executive Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It requires trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight....

Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you....

What’s the difference between your competitor and your enemy? You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses. But your enemies are a whole other matter. They’re the haters and the doubters who said...

The first prescriptive, innovative guide to seeing inflection points before they happen—and how to harness these disruptive influences to give your company a strategic advantage. Paradigmatic shifts in the business landscape, known as inflection points, can either create new, entrepreneurial...

Software as a Science is the definitive guide to engineering growth in a recurring revenue business—in the simplest way possible.

Michael Porter’s groundbreaking ideas on competition and strategy have unfolded over three decades and are spread across a dauntingly long list of publications....

Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of “sell it—do it, sell it—do it” that leaves...

If you had the opportunity to work where, when, and with whom you wanted, would you take it? Self-made multimillionaire and best-selling author Michael Masterson did....

रॉबर्ट टी. किओसाकी एक अब्जाधीश गुंतवणूकदार, व्यवसाय मालक, शिक्षक, स्पीकर आणि रिच डॅड पुअर डॅड मालिकेचे लोकप्रिय...

Large-scale organizational transformations usually don't work. What originally starts as a way of improving an organization becomes an all-consuming distraction, a value-destroying set of activities that, even as it becomes clear they will fail, must be completed at any cost.

This groundbreaking theory of organizational advantage details three components: simplification, slowification, and amplification. These create coherence across large, complex organizations, empowering them to architect enviable success in the market....

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)....

If you listen to nothing else on innovation, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you invest in your best innovation bets, learn from setbacks, and bring bold new offerings to market. This book will inspire you to know your customers' "jobs to be done;" harness the benefits of design thinking; bring AI into the innovation process; keep bureaucracy and structure from stifling creativity; build a culture of experimentation; and become the disrupter in your industry.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on leading digital transformation, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you set ambitious milestones for your transformation, anticipate and avoid common mistakes, and...

Vivek Mashrani's bestselling You Can Compound is your companion to learn, implement and refine the investing process. It opens a window to secrets, strategies and frameworks to compound money by investing in the stock market. Mashrani integrates principles of personal finance, building blocks to...

What’s Keeping Your Company from Reaching the Next Level? You’ve mastered the basics of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). Your leadership team is aligned, the vision is clear, and you’re gaining traction. Now comes the real challenge: rolling out your vision and EOS company-wide. To get what you want from your business, you must take EOS beyond the leadership team and equip everyone in the organization with the tools they need to help you achieve the vision.

Too many of today’s colleges and universities are defined by their silos and separations: teaching and research, student affairs and academic affairs, courses and careers, academia and industry, online and on-campus. The list goes on. But demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, economic upheaval, and new ways of learning and working mean that higher education must change.

The Business Transition and Succession Blueprint is a business book that aims to help business owners gain the awareness and direction to realize how to build a business with transferable value! This is strategic business planning.

Like pilots navigating turbulence, CEOs must handle the invisible forces that want to drag their companies down and learn to take advantage of the ones that keep them soaring. Drawing from three decades as a growth advisor to CEOs around the world, Kevin Lawrence explains how even exceptional leaders can become victims of their own success and reveals what it takes to keep a company on course. Filled with examples from real CEOs, The 4 Forces of Growth offers a clear path to achieving real, consistent, and scalable growth by harnessing a few simple tools and avoiding common pitfalls.

In 1944, the OSS created a field manual teaching ordinary citizens how to disrupt enemy operations through simple, untraceable acts. When declassified in 2008, business consultants made a startling discovery: these "sabotage" techniques perfectly described toxic workplace behaviors.

In today's hyper-competitive, growth-obsessed market, good isn't good enough. "How to Hire Elite Salespeople" is your blueprint for building a best-in-class sales team that doesn't just meet targets but redefines them. This book delivers cutting-edge strategies for attracting, evaluating, and retaining top-tier sales talent—your ultimate competitive advantage. For sales leaders and executives who refuse to settle, it provides actionable insights and proven methods to transform your sales force into an unstoppable revenue-generating machine.

If growth feels like it’s breaking your business, you’re not alone. That struggle shows up in the data, too. Nearly 82 percent of small businesses that fail blame cash flow issues. What most don’t realize is that cash flow problems are usually systems problems in disguise. Stop Growing Broke, Start Growing Profits is the systems-first playbook for overwhelmed CEOs and business owners who want growth that’s profitable, sustainable, and doesn’t depend on duct-tape fixes or 80-hour work weeks.