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...

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...

If you had the opportunity to work where, when, and with whom you wanted - all while getting paid very well - would you take it? Self-made multimillionaire and best-selling author Michael Masterson did, and with Ready, Fire, Aim he'll show you how to do the same. Whether you're thinking about...

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 bestselling classic on disruptive innovation by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller-one of the most influential business books of all time-innovation expert...

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....

In The Outsiders, you'll learn the traits and methods striking for their consistency and relentless rationality that helped these unique leaders achieve such exceptional performance....

Scaling People is a practical and empathetic guide to being an effective leader and manager in a high-growth environment....

In Build a Business You Love, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Ramsey Solutions Founder and CEO, Dave Ramsey breaks down the system that took his business from a card table in his living room to a $250 million operation.

Do you sometimes feel like your business is an adult daycare center? Are you constantly repeating yourself, fixing errors, and trying to hold things together? What if it were possible to create a business that runs itself? Listen to find out more....

International expert and consultant David Maister offers a brilliant and accessible guide to every management issue at play in professional firms. Professional firms differ from other business enterprises in two distinct ways: first, they provide highly customized services and thus cannot apply...

7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you to learn, communicate, and quickly apply. Drawing on his decades of experience as a business strategy adviser, active equity investor and Stanford University teacher Hamilton Helmer develops from...

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. Electrifying in its simplicity—like all great breakthroughs—Porter’s analysis of...

The 10th Anniversary Edition of the Leadership Classic The surprisingly common sense approach to leading a global company, based on a theoretical framework first used by the nineteenth-century Prussian Army. For over a decade the approach known as 'mission command' has been taught at the leading...

Through a series of cult commandments, Jody reveals how you can change how people feel about you and your brand, and why some brands effortlessly attract a devoted following while others struggle on the sidelines....

In the newly revised second edition of Rewired, five experienced McKinsey leaders deliver an essential and incisive update to their widely read guide to planning and implementing AI transformations. The book walks you through the AI transformation from start to finish. You'll learn how to create...

Transform your business with one pivotal role that changes everything. Most business owners think they must document every process themselves. But systems expert David Jenyns has discovered another way. Real transformation comes from empowering the right person to champion this mission.

Over a stellar career, Roger Martin has advised the CEOs of some of the world's most successful companies. From the beginning, he noted that almost every executive he talked to had a "model"—a framework or way of thinking that guided their strategy and activities. But these models tended to...

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....

The lifeblood of your business is a constant flow of new accounts. . .no matter how much repeat business you get from loyal customers. Packed with tested strategies and anecdotes, New Sales. Simplified. offers a proven formula for prospecting, developing, and closing deals. With refreshing...

Read by the author. The First Time Manager Series has sold over 500,000 copies and is a go-to guide for new and aspiring sales managers on what to expect and how to succeed. The jump from sales superstar to sales manager has made or broken many a sales career. As a top-performing sales...

2018 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem—in your workplace, community, or home life—just by changing the question? Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different...

Million Dollar Builder 2.0 delivers a proven system to break through the chaos—and build a seven-figure net profit business with clarity and control.

A New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends...

With the increasing complexity of modern cloud-based systems, an effective enterprise architecture program is more critical than ever. In this practical book, author Tanu McCabe from Capital One provides proven frameworks and practices to define an effective enterprise architecture...

From the former dean of Harvard Business School comes a deeply researched and practical exploration of the CEO role—and what it truly takes to succeed in it. Millions of ambitious professionals aspire to become CEO, drawn not only by the prestige of the title but by the opportunity to shape...

What the world is craving isn’t more. What the world is craving is what’s real. The first thing you reach for each morning is your phone. From there, your days are spent in your head, in your inbox, in meetings. You’re successful. And underneath it all is a nagging sense that something...

Reinvent the future of finance leadership: An imperative to lead in the Digital Age Reimagine Finance: A CFO’s Playbook to Leading in the Age of Data and AI by Tariq Munir empowers today's finance leaders to navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape with confidence and clarity. As the...

Groundbreaking investor and global enterprise builder Alec Litowitz shows how to move from “making the right decision” to “making decisions right” in The Adaptability Quotient, a guide to thinking and acting under uncertainty. Over decades of success across volatile markets, creating...

Gen AI is changing the way you work. So why is your team stuck in neutral? The adoption of generative AI is now widespread, yet it is still typically used on an individual basis: one person, one screen, one task. Meanwhile, the most important work in organizations happens in teams. The...

Do you feel like there are never enough hours in the day? Are endless emails, to-do lists, and responsibilities leaving you overwhelmed? AI can help—but knowing where to start is often the hardest part. AI Productivity Made Easy is a beginner-friendly, step-by-step guide to using AI tools like ChatGPT to save time, reduce stress, simplify daily tasks, and boost productivity without working longer hours.

A better future is possible, and as a leader, you can amplify your vision and create energy for change by starting with hope. In The Hope Engineer’s Playbook, Nikolas Badminton brings more than thirty years of experience working with leaders at over six hundred world-defining organizations and governments to show how hope transforms organizations and provides a renewable energy for change.

What happens when a good decision survives the meeting—but not the months that follow? A process is created. Expectations are communicated. Training is completed. For a while, everything appears to work. Then leadership moves on. Months later, an incident, missed responsibility, or unexpected failure reveals the truth: the organization is no longer doing what leaders believed it was doing.

What do you do when the right decision isn’t the easy one? Every leader eventually faces a moment where policy, pressure, and personal values collide. A moment where the decision in front of you doesn’t just test your judgment—it reveals who you are. That moment is The Line. In this powerful and deeply human leadership narrative, Michael Letizia, SHRM-SCP, draws from more than four decades of real-world experience in human resources and executive leadership to explore the decisions that define careers, cultures, and character.

How Do You Lead Security So That It Truly Creates Value? Security is about enabling the organization to achieve its objectives without undesirable events undermining the conditions for success. Profitable Security is about doing this as economically as possible by reducing loss costs, using...

Who Owns Whom? shows contractors how to create systems that reduce daily stress, improve customer satisfaction, strengthen subcontractor relationships, reduce costly callbacks, and protect their reputation while building a more profitable company.

The Strategy Cycle is a practical field guide for product leaders who need to make a real strategy and put it to work. It takes you from your first rough sketch through the choices, conversations, and ongoing work that make strategy useful—a repeatable practice, not a one-off planning exercise. Listen to it in one sitting. Put it to work Monday. You'll learn how to get from a blank page to clear choices: sketch your current strategy in about an hour, identify the critical challenge, clarify how your product will win, and choose the bets worth making.

If you're responsible for founder-led marketing, trying to build a marketing system, or searching for a marketing strategy that can drive predictable revenue and sustainable business growth, you're exactly who this book was written for. YOU DIDN'T START YOUR COMPANY TO RUN MARKETING. And yet somehow, here you are; reviewing ad campaigns, debating agency reports, and spending Tuesday nights trying to figure out why growth feels harder than it should. The Accidental CMO is for founders at $1M-$30M companies who inherited marketing by default and are ready to stop winging it.

Artificial intelligence is already inside your business. It may be in your email, meeting tools, CRM, accounting software, customer service platform, browser extensions, or the hands of an employee who discovered that AI can turn a messy thought into a polished message in seconds. The problem is not AI. The problem is blind adoption. AI can help your business move faster, reduce busywork, improve communication, support decision-making, and give smaller teams capabilities that once required far more people.

Every leader has a dream. Few have a clear path. DREAM to Reality changes this almost immediately. Built around the DREAM framework—Define, Research, Experience, Apply, and Measure—leaders can call upon a proven system to turn their ambition into results. Drawing upon his years guiding Fortune 500 brands and landmark initiatives like ‘He Gets Us,’ author Jason Vanderground has experienced firsthand the questions leaders face: How can I move my team from inspiration to execution? How do I earn lasting loyalty from my customers?

For one hundred years, without realizing it, we’ve been building an organism. We gave the enterprise a body through global supply chains, logistics networks, and industrial systems that move goods across the globe. Then, we gave it a nervous system of cloud platforms, enterprise software, and data that flows through organizations like electricity through a wire.

Every leadership problem you're trying to solve — retention, trust, engagement, even your AI rollout — has a generational layer underneath it that nobody's naming. For the first time in history, six generations are working side by side, each running a different code: instincts written by a different world, for a different kind of survival. Traditionalists learned that structure holds the center. Baby Boomers learned that effort is identity. Gen X learned to trust competence over title. Millennials learned to ask if they matter. Gen Z is asking if they can be themselves here.

You know you’re capable of more—but something keeps getting in the way. Self-doubt. Old stories. Invisible ceilings you can’t quite name. The Irresistible Edge names them, dismantles them, and replaces them with the tools you need to step into the life you were meant to lead. Renwick Brutus has spent over three decades guiding professionals and entrepreneurs through high-stakes transformation. His premise is simple but powerful: what holds you back isn’t a lack of strategy—it’s an unexamined script.

What Are You Building—and Will It Last? Purpose is not a mission statement. It is not a brand. And it is not something you find—it is something you build deliberately for the benefit of others. In Built on Purpose, Ken Polk—founder of one of the nation’s leading family wealth management firms—draws on more than two decades of guiding families and organizations to offer a deeply human exploration of what it means to build something that truly endures.

When AI has commoditized ”good enough” marketing and every competitor uses the same tools, strategic clarity becomes the differentiator. In The Digital 15: Immutable Principles Every Marketer Must Know, Chris Aarons, Wall Street Journal bestselling author and UT Austin marketing professor, delivers fifteen battle-tested principles drawn from 25-plus years transforming brands like Amazon, Cisco, and Coca-Cola.