Forecasting & Strategic Planning

From the creator of Valuetainment, the number-one YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals....

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....

Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result....

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....

Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect....

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....

Challenging everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed by creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces....

From the cofounder of Square, an inspiring and entertaining account of what it means to be a true entrepreneur and what it takes to build a resilient, world-changing company....

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 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....

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....

Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers.

In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision....

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the next 30 years and transform our lives. Much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion....

What if strategy could instead be clear, simple, bold, and even actually useful? That’s what No Bullsh*t Strategy is all about. It sweeps away all the garbled corporate nonsense and dry academic theorising to leave you with pure strategic sauce, which can be actioned right away....

A ground-breaking exploration of the changing nature of trust and how to bridge the gap from where you are to where you need to be. Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s...

This critical guide provides listeners with the tools and information they need to keep their organizations as blissfully risk free as possible....

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

One of the greatest challenges facing business owners globally is that they simply don't charge enough for what they do. And this leads to all kinds of nasty problems. There has never been a better time to put an end to this self-destructive business practice once and for all....

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.

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

Artificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible - driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI will bring can be paralyzing....

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate listeners on one of the hottest trends in business development: "design thinking", or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications....

A Fast Company Best Book of the Year An expert in trend forecasting shows how to anticipate what’s next and prepare your business, your market, and your products for the future “Amy Webb, with insight and a big dose of pragmatism, shows how to clearly see the next big disruption and then...

In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm....

In this highly-anticipated sequel to Monetizing Innovation, Madhavan Ramanujam and Eddie Hartman unveil a battle-tested playbook for architecting profitable growth. Drawing from their experience advising over 400 companies―including 50+ unicorns―the authors dissect both legendary successes and costly failures. Packed with real-world case studies, hard-hitting insights, and nine breakthrough strategies, Scaling Innovation reveals how founders, executives, and investors need to navigate the critical transition from product-market fit to building an enduring, high-value business.

The world we once described as volatile and uncertain has shifted into something far more chaotic: BANI, or brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible. In Navigating the Age of Chaos, Jamais Cascio, the originator of the visionary BANI framework, unpacks the tools and perspectives needed to navigate our increasingly turbulent era.

In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for uninstalling bureaucracy and reinventing management as we know it. In this extensively updated and expanded edition, listeners will find new and compelling case studies, the latest research findings, and a wealth of fresh and provocative insights.

Tom Howard’s book is a step-by-step explanation of how you close the deal. Tell people how great your company is, not how big your ego is, about making the tough decisions. He chose going into the blue collar trades as a way to make his millions. You have everything to gain by learning from a master. He explains his mistakes as well as his successes, the critical importance of sales plans, empowering your employees, branding

The Year in Tech, 2026: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment.