23 Best Business Development, Business & Economics Books
Business Development, Business & Economics is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Business Development, Business & Economics audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 23 Business Development, Business & Economics audiobooks below.
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- By: Matt Hulett
- Narrator: Matt Hulett
- Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Page Two Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4.5(1 ratings)
4.5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDYou CAN change your business destiny. From a veteran technology executive comes an essential toolkit to reveal exactly where your company’s true value lies–and how to reap its rewards. Over his 30 years as an executive in the technologyYou CAN change your business destiny.
From a veteran technology executive comes an essential toolkit to reveal exactly where your company’s true value lies–and how to reap its rewards.
Over his 30 years as an executive in the technology sector, Matt Hulett has become the go-to company fixer. From RealNetworks to Rosetta Stone to Expedia, he has steered start-ups and large companies into renewed areas for growth and driven more than $2 billion in value creation. Now, he shares five key questions that will uncover new insight into your business’ potential–without the need for a lengthy and costly strategic planning process.
Through real-life examples, personal stories, and insights from thought leaders and CEOs, Hulett guides you through the steps of taking a deep dive into your company’s pivot potential. He shows you how to take stock of your business, from your company’s alignment to market trends and your supply chain position, to your value proposition for customers, to your ability to raise capital.
Along the way, you’ll begin to identify where your true potential lies, and map out a plan to capitalize on it. With expert advice on assessing industry shifts, valuable insights on leading teams, and tips for raising money and pitching investors, Hulett shows you exactly where to look, and what you need to find, in order to map out a new future for you and your company.
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The Growth Advantage
- By: Bob Lisser
- Narrator: Tim Dixon
- Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.33(2 ratings)
4.33(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDProvides a blueprint for your company’s sustained and profitable growth Let’s face it: sustained business growth doesn’t just happen. Growth must be planned for and executed, cultivated from a strategic standpoint and appliedProvides a blueprint for your company’s sustained and profitable growth
Let’s face it: sustained business growth doesn’t just happen. Growth must be planned for and executed, cultivated from a strategic standpoint and applied tactically at the frontline, led by the right people, and focused on the right objectives. The Growth Advantage provides a blueprint for sustained and profitable growth for any business. It is designed to help companies build the ultimate competitive edge. The audiobook is broken into three parts that outline the Planning Advantage, the Execution Advantage, and the Company Advantage, which will help you align your company with its goals.
The Growth Advantage cracks open the business secrets that teach companies how to achieve that dream of steady, predictable growth through effective planning and solid execution. Listeners learn how their company can develop and sustain a blueprint for growth that guides company actions on a daily and weekly basis.
Combining elements of culture, strategy, planning, execution, talent acquisition, training, motivation, accountability, and brand differentiation into one book with clear, actionable steps, Bob Lisser brings listeners along a journey that starts with a plan and ends with success.
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Sales Differentiation
- By: Lee B. Salz
- Narrator: Lee B. Salz
- Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publish date: September 18, 2018
- Language: English
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4.25(78 ratings)
4.25(78 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USD“If we don’t drop our price, we will lose the deal.” That’s the desperate cry from salespeople as they try to win deals in competitive marketplaces. While the easy answer is to lower the price, the company sacrifices“If we don’t drop our price, we will lose the deal.”
That’s the desperate cry from salespeople as they try to win deals in competitive marketplaces. While the easy answer is to lower the price, the company sacrifices margin–oftentimes unnecessarily.
To win deals at the prices you want, the strategy needed is differentiation. Most executives think marketing is the sole source of differentiation. But what about the sales function of the company? This commonly neglected differentiation opportunity provides a multitude of ways to stand out from the competition. This groundbreaking augiobook teaches you how to develop those strategies.
In Sales Differentiation, sales management strategist, Lee B. Salz presents nineteen easy-to-implement concepts to help salespeople win deals while protecting margins. These concepts apply to any salesperson in any industry and are based on the foundation that “how you sell, not just what you sell, differentiates you.”
The strategies are presented in easy-to-understand stories and can quickly be put into practice. Divided into two sections, the “what you sell” chapters help salespeople:
- Recognize that the expression “we are the best” causes differentiation to backfire.
- Avoid the introspective question that frustrates salespeople and ask the right question to fire them up.
- Understand what their true differentiators are and how to effectively position them with buyers.
- Find differentiators in every nook and cranny of the company using the six components of the “Sales Differentiation Universe.”
- Create strategies to position differentiators so buyers see value in them.
The “how you sell” section teaches salespeople how to provide meaningful value to buyers and differentiate themselves in every stage of the sales process. This section helps salespeople:
- Develop strategies to engage buyers and turn buyer objections into sales differentiation opportunities.
- Shape buyer decision criteria around differentiators.
- Turn a commoditized Request for Proposal (RFP) process into a differentiation opportunity.
- Use a buyer request for references as a way to stand out from the competition.
- Leverage the irrefutable, most powerful differentiator…themselves.
Whether you’ve been selling for twenty years or are new to sales, the tools you learn in Sales Differentiation will help you knock-out the competition, build profitable new relationships, and win deals at the prices you want.
Accompanying charts are available in the audio book companion PDF download.
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The Emigrant Edge
- By: Brian Buffini
- Narrator: Fred Sanders
- Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.2(198 ratings)
4.2(198 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDBrian Buffini, an Irish immigrant who went from rags to riches, shares his strategies for anyone who wants to achieve the American dream in this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Brian Buffini embodies the classic rags to richesBrian Buffini, an Irish immigrant who went from rags to riches, shares his strategies for anyone who wants to achieve the American dream in this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
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Brian Buffini embodies the classic rags to riches tale: born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, he arrived in San Diego, California at nineteen years old with just ninety-two dollars in his pocket. Since then he has become one of his new nation’s top real estate moguls and a founder of the largest business training company, Buffini & Co., in North America. And Brian isn’t alone in his circle of success: while immigrants compose thirteen percent of the American population, they are responsible for creating a quarter of all new businesses.
So, what’s their secret? In The Emigrant Edge, Brian shares seven key characteristics that he and other successful immigrants have in common that can help produce a high level of achievement for anyone–no matter their vocation. He then challenges us to leave the comfort of our current work conditions to apply these secrets and achieve the success of our dreams.
With a timely message sure to resonate with anyone who wants to prosper in the business world, The Emigrant Edge is a passionate, deeply personal story bound to inspire.
So what are the secrets? In The Emigrant Edge, Brian shares seven characteristics that he and other successful immigrants have in common that can help anyone reach a higher level of achievement, no matter their vocation. He then challenges readers to leave the comfort of their current work conditions to apply these secrets and achieve the success of their dreams. -
Sprint
- By: Jake Knapp
- Narrator: Dan Bittner
- Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.2(16798 ratings)
4.2(16798 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom inside Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at thousands of companies in mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, and more.Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the mostFrom inside Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at thousands of companies in mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, and more.
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Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?
Now there’s a surefire way to answer these important questions: the Design Sprint, created at Google by Jake Knapp. This method is like fast-forwarding into the future, so you can see how customers react before you invest all the time and expense of creating your new product, service, or campaign.
In a Design Sprint, you take a small team, clear your schedules for a week, and rapidly progress from problem, to prototype, to tested solution using the step-by-step five-day process in this book.
A practical guide to answering critical business questions, Sprint is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It can replace the old office defaults with a smarter, more respectful, and more effective way of solving problems that brings out the best contributions of everyone on the team–and helps you spend your time on work that really matters. -
The Innovator’s Method
- By: Nathan Furr
- Narrator: Nathan Furr
- Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 14, 2016
- Language: English
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4.14(539 ratings)
4.14(539 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDHave you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company-perhaps changing the way youHave you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company-perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide customer service, or hire and train your employees? If you have, but you haven’t known how to take the next step, you need to understand what the authors call the innovator’s method-a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development that are revolutionizing how new ideas are created, refined, and brought to market. To date these tools have helped entrepreneurs, designers, and software developers manage uncertainty-through cheap and rapid experiments that systematically lower failure rates and risk. But many managers and leaders struggle to apply these powerful tools within their organizations, as they often run counter to traditional managerial thinking and practice. Authors Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer wrote this book to address that very problem. Following the breakout success of The Innovator’s DNA-which Dyer wrote with Hal Gregersen and bestselling author Clay Christensen to provide a framework for generating ideas-this book shows how to make those ideas actually happen, to commercialize them for success. Based on their research inside corporations and successful start-ups, Furr and Dyer developed the innovator’s method, an end-to-end process for creating, refining, and bringing ideas to market. They show when and how to apply the tools of their method, how to adapt them to your business, and how to answer commonly asked questions about the method itself, including: How do we know if this idea is worth pursuing? Have we found the right solution? What is the best business model for this new offering? This book focuses on the “how”-how to test, how to validate, and how to commercialize ideas with the lean, design, and agile techniques successful start-ups use. Whether you’re launching a start-up, leading an established one, or simply working to get a new product off the ground in an existing company, this book is for you.
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Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules
- By: Napoleon Hill
- Narrator: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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4.1(1020 ratings)
4.1(1020 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.95 USDNapoleon Hill’s Golden Rules: The Lost Writings consists of a series of magazine articles Napoleon Hill wrote between 1919 and 1923 for Success Magazine. Hill’s obsession with achieving material success led him out of theNapoleon Hill’s Golden Rules: The Lost Writings consists of a series of magazine articles Napoleon Hill wrote between 1919 and 1923 for Success Magazine. Hill’s obsession with achieving material success led him out of the poverty-stricken Appalachian Mountains and filled him with the desire to study successful people. These articles focus on Hill’s philosophy of success, drawing on the thoughts and experiences of a multitude of rags-to-riches tycoons, showing listeners how these successful people achieved such status. Hill’s popularity continues to this day, as many of his writings, such as the chapter “Law of Attraction,” have recently become the basis of several bestselling books (including The Secret). Discover the principles that will ensure your success!
Chapters include:- Lesson #1: Your Social and Physical Heredity- Lesson #2: Auto Suggestion- Lesson #3: Suggestion (Applied Salesmanship)- Lesson #4: The Law of Retaliation- Lesson #5: The Power of Your Mind- Lesson #6: How to Build Self–Confidence- Lesson #7: Environment and Habit- Lesson #8: How to Remember- Lesson #9: How Marc Antony Used Suggestion in Winning the Roman Mob- Lesson #10: Persuasion vs. Force- Lesson #11: The Law of Compensation- Lesson #12: The Golden Rule as a Pass Key to All Achievement
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Good to Great
- By: Jim Collins
- Narrator: Jim Collins
- Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 13, 2010
- Language: English
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4.01(6058 ratings)
4.01(6058 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDBuilt To Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companiesBuilt To Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.
But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? Are there those that convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? If so, what are the distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don’t. The findings include:
- Level 5 Leadership: A surprising style, required for greatness.
- The Hedgehog Concept: Finding your three circles, to transcend the curse of competence.
- A Culture of Discipline: The alchemy of great results.
- Technology Accelerators: How good-to-great companies think differently about technology.
- The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Why those who do frequent restructuring fail to make the leap.
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The First Mile
- By: Scott D. Anthony
- Narrator: Scott D. Anthony
- Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 09, 2016
- Language: English
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4(80 ratings)
4(80 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.99 USDYou have a great idea, now what? That first mile-where an innovation moves from an idea on paper to the market-is often plagued by failure. In fact, less than one percent of ideas launched by big companies end up having real impact. The ideasYou have a great idea, now what? That first mile-where an innovation moves from an idea on paper to the market-is often plagued by failure. In fact, less than one percent of ideas launched by big companies end up having real impact. The ideas aren’t the problem. It’s the process. The First Mile focuses on the critical moment when an innovator moves from planning to reality. It is a perilous place where hidden traps snare entrepreneurs and roadblocks slow innovators inside large companies. In this practical and enlightening manual, strategic adviser Scott Anthony equips innovators with new tools, questions, and examples to speed through this crucial early stage of innovation. You’ll learn: – How to evaluate your idea’s strengths and weaknesses using the “DEFT” process-Document, Evaluate, Focus, and Test – Fourteen recipes from an “experiment cookbook” to gain confidence in your idea or business – Why “spinouts,” “wrong turns,” and other challenges commonly trip up innovation-and the practical strategies you can use to avoid them – Why innovators need to seek chaos in an age of constant change-and other essential leadership skills Drawing on his decade of experience as an innovation adviser and investor, Anthony describes hard-won lessons from disruptive start-ups and global giants alike. The First Mile will give you the knowledge and confidence to travel this perilous-but ultimately promising-terrain. The first mile can be a scary place, but you don’t have to traverse it alone. This book can help.
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Market Mover
- By: Robert Greifeld
- Narrator: Jeff Bottoms
- Length: 9 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 08, 2019
- Language: English
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4(57 ratings)
4(57 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe former CEO and Chairman of Nasdaq shares insights and lessons learned from one of the world’s largest stock exchanges, detailing the company’s transformation from a fledgling U.S. equities market to a global financial technologyThe former CEO and Chairman of Nasdaq shares insights and lessons learned from one of the world’s largest stock exchanges, detailing the company’s transformation from a fledgling U.S. equities market to a global financial technology company.
... Read moreDuring 2003, the U.S. economy was described by one economist as “nervous, anxious, and waiting.” In December the Dow had topped 10,000 for the first time in a year and a half, and at year’s end the markets were up for the first time since 1999. But in the same year, American troops had moved into Iraq, and corporate boards were cutting CEOs at the slightest signs of trouble.Amidst this turmoil Robert Greifeld, a former tech entrepreneur from outside the Wall Street bubble, became CEO of Nasdaq, a position he would hold for the next thirteen years. He saw the company through one of the most mercurial economic periods in history: the Bernie Madoff mega-scandal; Facebook’s tumultuous and disastrous IPO; Hurricane Sandy’s disruption of the world’s financial hub; the implosion of America’s housing market and the global economic crash that followed, from which we have yet to fully recover. In Market Mover, Bob will write a first-hand account of the most critical moments of his career, with each chapter focusing on a headline-making event and ending with a prescriptive takeaway to impart to his readers.Now Bob, who stepped aside as Nasdaq’s CEO at the end of 2016, is eager to look back at more than a decade of transformational change that occurred on his watch in order to share his insights and lessons with business readers. -
Building Social Business
- By: Muhammad Yunus
- Narrator: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.97(1313 ratings)
3.97(1313 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDMuhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his world-changing efforts, here develops his revolutionary concept that promises to redeem the failed promise of free enterprise: socialMuhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his world-changing efforts, here develops his revolutionary concept that promises to redeem the failed promise of free enterprise: social business. Designed to fill the gap between profit-making and human needs, social business applies entrepreneurial thinking to problems like poverty, hunger, pollution, and disease, creating self-supporting enterprises that create jobs and generate economic growth even as they make the world a better place. Partnering with some of the world’s greatest corporations, Yunus and his Grameen Bank have already launched several social businesses that are addressing challenges like malnutrition, lack of potable water, and endemic illness in Yunus’ homeland of Bangladesh, while other organizations around the world are developing their own experiments in social business. In this book, Yunus traces the development of the social business idea and explains its lessons for entrepreneurs, social activists, and policy makers, and offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own.
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The Business of Design
- By: Keith Granet
- Narrator: Christine Marshall
- Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
- Publish date: June 15, 2021
- Language: English
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3.95(91 ratings)
3.95(91 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.99 USDThe Business of Design debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive, showing design professionals that they can pursue their passion and turn a profit. For nearly thirty years, consultant Keith Granet has helpedThe Business of Design debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive, showing design professionals that they can pursue their passion and turn a profit. For nearly thirty years, consultant Keith Granet has helped designers create successful businesses, from branding to billing and everything in between. Unlike other business books, The Business of Design is written and illustrated to speak to a visually thinking audience. The book covers all aspects of running a successful design business, including human resources, client management, product development, marketing, and licensing. This timely update on the tenth anniversary of the first edition includes new content on social media, working from home, and understanding and working with different generations, essential tools in today’s ultracompetitive marketplace.
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How the Mighty Fall
- By: Jim Collins
- Narrator: Jim Collins
- Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 19, 2009
- Language: English
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3.95(62 ratings)
3.95(62 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USD“Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.”–Jim Collins Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amid the desolate“Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.”–Jim Collins
Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed.
Amid the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course?
In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course.
By understanding the stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. As Collins’ research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover–in some cases, coming back even stronger. As long as you never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.
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Blue Ocean Shift
- By: W. Chan Kim
- Narrator: Christian Steiner
- Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 26, 2017
- Language: English
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3.91(1130 ratings)
3.91(1130 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDBlue Ocean Shift is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and 3.6 million copy global bestseller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne showBlue Ocean Shift is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and 3.6 million copy global bestseller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.
Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people’s confidence, and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. By combining the insights of human psychology with practical market-creating tools and real-world guidance, Kim and Mauborgne deliver the definitive guide to shift yourself, your team, or your organization to new heights of confidence, market creation, and growth. They show why nondisruptive creation is as important as disruption in seizing new growth.
Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. Whether you are a cash-strapped startup or a large, established company, nonprofit or national government, you will learn how to move from red to blue oceans in a way that builds your people’s confidence so that they own and drive the process.
With battle-tested lessons learned from successes and failures in the field, Blue Ocean Shift is critical reading for leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs alike. You’ll learn what works, what doesn’t, and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. This book will empower you to succeed as you embark on your own blue ocean journey. Blue Ocean Shift is indispensable for anyone committed to building a compelling future.
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Not to Scale
- By: Jamer Hunt
- Narrator: Jamie Renell
- Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 03, 2020
- Language: English
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3.84(23 ratings)
3.84(23 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDFrom research to practical application, Not To Scale explores an influential theory in an accessible way. The dictionary defines “scale” as a range of numbers, used as a system to measure or compare things. We use this concept in everyFrom research to practical application, Not To Scale explores an influential theory in an accessible way.
The dictionary defines “scale” as a range of numbers, used as a system to measure or compare things. We use this concept in every aspect of our lives-it is essential to innovation, helps us weigh options, and shapes our understanding of the impact of our actions.In Not to Scale, Jamer Hunt investigates the complications of scale in the digital age, highlighting an interesting paradox: We now have a world of information at our fingertips, yet ironically the more informed we have become, the more overwhelmed we feel. The global effects of our daily choices (Paper or plastic? Own or lease? Shop local or buy online?) remain difficult for us to comprehend, and solutions to large-scale national and international issues feel inconceivable.
Hunt explains how these challenges are intimately tied to a new logic of scale and provides readers with survival skills for the twenty-first century. By taking massive problems and shrinking them down to size, we can use scale to effect positive change and adapt to the modern era. Connecting our smallest decisions to the grand scheme of things, Not to Scale is a fascinating and empowering guide to comprehending and navigating the high stakes often obscured from our view.
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Capitalism Without Capital
- By: Jonathan Haskel
- Narrator: Jonathan Haskel
- Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 15, 2017
- Language: English
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3.8(1719 ratings)
3.8(1719 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, likeThe first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, or software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, from tech firms and pharma companies to coffee shops and gyms, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term success. But this is not just a familiar story of the so-called new economy. Capitalism without Capital shows that the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the big economic changes of the last decade. The rise of intangible investment is, Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue, an underappreciated cause of phenomena from economic inequality to stagnating productivity. Haskel and Westlake bring together a decade of research on how to measure intangible investment and its impact on national accounts, showing the amount different countries invest in intangibles, how this has changed over time, and the latest thinking on how to assess this. They explore the unusual economic characteristics of intangible investment, and discuss how these features make an intangible-rich economy fundamentally different from one based on tangibles. Capitalism without Capital concludes by presenting three possible scenarios for what the future of an intangible world might be like, and by outlining how managers, investors, and policymakers can exploit the characteristics of an intangible age to grow their businesses, portfolios, and economies. Author bio: Jonathan Haskel is professor of economics at Imperial College London. Stian Westlake is a senior fellow at Nesta, the UK’s national foundation for innovation.
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Think Big, Act Small
- By: Jason Jennings
- Narrator: Jason Jennings
- Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.76(232 ratings)
3.76(232 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.95 USDTradition says there are three ways to grow a company’s revenue: fire up the sales team with empty promises, cut costs and downsize, or cook the books. But what if there’s a better way — a way that nine amazingly profitable andTradition says there are three ways to grow a company’s revenue: fire up the sales team with empty promises, cut costs and downsize, or cook the books. But what if there’s a better way — a way that nine amazingly profitable and well-run companies are already embracing.
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Jason Jennings and his research team screened more than 100,000 American companies to find nine that rarely end up on magazine covers, yet have increased revenues and profits by 10 percent or more for ten consecutive years. Then they interviewed the leaders, workers and customers of these quiet superstars to find the secrets of their astoundingly consistent and profitable growth.
Jennings discovered that consistent high performance takes more than locker-room speeches to the sales team. What these companies have in common is a culture based on a shockingly simple precept: Think big, but act small. It works for retailers like PETCO and Cabela’s, manufactures like Medline Industries, service companies like Sonic Drive-In, private educational companies like Strayer, and industrial giants like Koch Enterprises.
In Think Big, Act Small, Jennings reveals the unique power of combining the strengths of a big organization with the hunger of a start-up. Any company, no matter what its size or industry, can benefit from following these examples. -
Boom
- By: Craig Hall
- Narrator: Greg Lockett
- Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 16, 2019
- Language: English
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3.75(7 ratings)
3.75(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFor decades, the United States has been experiencing a shocking decline in the number of new business start-ups–and it has gotten worse since the Great Recession. While new business formation in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston is booming,For decades, the United States has been experiencing a shocking decline in the number of new business start-ups–and it has gotten worse since the Great Recession. While new business formation in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston is booming, entrepreneurship in most of the country–particularly rural regions–is declining. Things are even worse for women and people of color. This is of paramount importance to the United States because start-ups account for all new net-job growth, champion innovation, and strengthen our middle class. From the perspective of an entrepreneur with more than fifty years of experience in diverse industries–from software to real estate to winemaking–author Craig Hall provides his expert evaluation on the challenges facing entrepreneurs today. After careful analysis defining the current environment for startups, Hall optimistically concludes with specific strategies for go-getters to successfully bridge the opportunity gap. We can, and must, reverse these trends in order to level the playing field for entrepreneurs to safeguard the future of the American Dream.
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Breaking Bad Habits
- By: Freek Vermeulen
- Narrator: Freek Vermeulen
- Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 14, 2017
- Language: English
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3.72(54 ratings)
3.72(54 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.99 USDIt’s very likely that best practices-ideas, processes, and strategies that are commonplace in your industry-are actually hurting your business. Although best practices can help businesses operate more competitively and efficiently, they areIt’s very likely that best practices-ideas, processes, and strategies that are commonplace in your industry-are actually hurting your business. Although best practices can help businesses operate more competitively and efficiently, they are often outdated, harmful, and a hindrance to innovation. The problem is, managers and executives are usually blind to the negative effects of best practices, so they don’t question their purpose or measure their effectiveness. As a consequence, outdated or harmful practices spread and persist without their knowledge. In Breaking Bad Habits, Freek Vermeulen, a strategy professor at London Business School, offers the tools to identify bad practices eliminate them from your organization, and then move on to create new sources of innovation and growth by outthinking your competitors. Brimming with examples of norm-defying organizations in an eclectic range of industries, Breaking Bad Habits will make you rethink your long-held beliefs about industry norms while encouraging you to reinvigorate your business by breaking out of the status quo.
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The Profit Pattern
- By: John Mautner
- Narrator: John Mautner
- Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.47(45 ratings)
3.47(45 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDTap into solutions for the top ten challenges every business encounters and learn the keys to transform your business today. Learn the key solutions to solve the ten proven, repeatable, and beatable challenges that every business encounters. WhetherTap into solutions for the top ten challenges every business encounters and learn the keys to transform your business today.
Learn the key solutions to solve the ten proven, repeatable, and beatable challenges that every business encounters. Whether you are a startup, restructuring, or escalating to a higher level, you can grow your business, improve performance, and improve efficiency starting right now with the help of The Profit Pattern.
This is an insider’s look at the strategies behind authority business coach and serial entrepreneur John Mautner’s formula. The Profit Pattern will help you protect, restore, and grow your business, just as Mautner has personally done to help thousands of other businesses. Discover the challenges that every business faces and learn how to make a difference, transform your business, improve efficiency, and impact your company’s bottom line.
Whether you are facing financial challenges or are seeking greater heights, The Profit Pattern will guide you to improve performance, increase productivity, and manage your time through simple steps so you can accomplish all your goals.
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Frictionless
- By: Christiane Lemieux
- Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass
- Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 23, 2020
- Language: English
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3.44(19 ratings)
3.44(19 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDSerial entrepreneur Christiane Lemieux describes the new rules of entrepreneurship and business, arguing that visionary startups leverage the concept of “frictionless” to beat their competitors. Based on interviews with dozens ofSerial entrepreneur Christiane Lemieux describes the new rules of entrepreneurship and business, arguing that visionary startups leverage the concept of “frictionless” to beat their competitors.
Based on interviews with dozens of startup founders, experts and scholars on entrepreneurship, Frictionless provides readers with a wide-ranging education in starting companies that thrive in the world of frictionless commerce–made possible by new technologies, a new mindset, and new demands from Millennial consumers. Working with bestselling author and journalist Duff McDonald, Lemieux also shares her own story–lessons learned, failures absorbed–at the helm of DwellStudio (which was acquired by Wayfair) and her latest venture, The Inside.
Some founders profiled in the book are reducing friction in their own business models, others reduce friction through improved customer experiences, and still others are revolutionizing their operations to create frictionless organizations. Readers will glean lessons from the founders of well-known companies such as Instant Pot, Bonobos, Hims, and Halo Top–as well as upstarts Billie, Dame Products, and Convene.
Frictionless outlines the groundwork necessary for getting a company up-and-running and explains how companies make and market products and services while meeting the demands of their customers and employees today. Frictionless is the essential handbook for creating tomorrow’s mind set and competitive advantage.
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Leapfrogging
- By: Soren Kaplan
- Narrator: Richard Waterhouse
- Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.25(58 ratings)
3.25(58 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDToday’s business environment demands leapfroggers–those who create rapid, disruptive innovation, not small improvements. A leading innovation pioneer shows that businesses often ignore the very thing that could lead them to game-changingToday’s business environment demands leapfroggers–those who create rapid, disruptive innovation, not small improvements. A leading innovation pioneer shows that businesses often ignore the very thing that could lead them to game-changing products–the power of surprise. How did Gatorade revitalize itself in the wake of Red Bull and Starbucks? How did Etsy come to be? How did Four Seasons become the world’s leading luxury hotel brand? What makes one leader or company thrive while others languish in mediocrity? Kaplan gives business leaders the tools to do exactly what they’re taught to avoid: embrace uncertainty and invite surprises. Leapfrogging connects new research, unconventional strategies, and practical tools for navigating the seemingly “messy” process of achieving business breakthroughs. Listen in and leapfrog your way to success today!
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Beyond the Obvious
- By: Phil McKinney
- Narrator: Phil McKinney
- Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 07, 2012
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDThe Killer Questions Your Company Should Be Asking Generating and executing great ideas is the key to staying ahead in a rapidly changing world. It seems so basic. Why is it so hard to actually get right? According to innovation expert PhilThe Killer Questions Your Company Should Be Asking Generating and executing great ideas is the key to staying ahead in a rapidly changing world. It seems so basic. Why is it so hard to actually get right? According to innovation expert Phil McKinney, the real problem is that we’re teaching people to ask the wrong questions about their businesses–or none at all. There has to be a better way. In Beyond the Obvious, McKinney will help you use his proven FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Rank, Execution) Method to dig deeper and get back to asking the right questions–the ones all companies must ask to survive. Full of real-world examples, this book will change the way you operate, innovate, and create, and it all begins with battle-tested questions Phil has gathered on note cards throughout his career. Shared for the first time here, these “Killer Questions” include:
- What are the rules and assumptions my industry operates under? What if the opposite were true?
- What will be the buying criteria used by my customer in 5 years?
- What are my unshakable beliefs about what my customers want?
- Who uses my product in ways I never anticipated?
These questions will reframe the way you see your products, your customers, and the way the two interact. Whether you’re a company of thousands or a lean startup, Beyond the Obvious will give you the skills and easy-to-follow plan you need to make both the revolutionary changes and nuanced tweaks required for success. Praise for Beyond the Obvious “Human beings are creatures of habit, so getting ourselves and our teams to think beyond the obvious is a challenge we face all the time. Phil McKinney is an innovation expert, and his killer questions and hit-the-spot anecdotes provide a great way to get out in front of opportunities we otherwise won’t see.” — Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Escape Velocity “I’ve always believed that asking the right questions is the essence of design. Phil McKinney proves that point with this wonderful set of killer questions that will jumpstart-or greatly enhance- your innovation efforts.” — B. Joseph Pine II, co-author, The Experience Economy & Infinite Possibility. “Product Innovation is a prerequisite to building great brands. Phil’s questions are a prerequisite to building innovative products.” — Satjiv S. Chahil, former global marketing chief, Apple”
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