29 Best Strategic Planning, Business & Economics Books
Strategic Planning, Business & Economics is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Strategic Planning, Business & Economics audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Strategic Planning, Business & Economics audiobooks below.
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Change on the Run
- By: Phil Buckley
- Narrator: Phil Buckley
- Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Page Two Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.45(20 ratings)
4.45(20 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDChange is the norm in business. Here’s how you navigate it. The only thing you can rely on in today’s workplace is uncertainty. Between mergers and acquisitions, layoffs and team shuffles, pandemics and recessions, only the nimbleChange is the norm in business. Here’s how you navigate it.
The only thing you can rely on in today’s workplace is uncertainty. Between mergers and acquisitions, layoffs and team shuffles, pandemics and recessions, only the nimble survive. Change on the Run is your secret weapon to navigating it all.
Written for the time-strapped manager, Change on the Run provides a laser-focused guide to navigating your way through disruption, without any time-consuming fluff or theory. Change management expert Phil Buckley gives you 44 tried-and-true survival strategies for responding to transitions and disruptions as quickly as possible. For each, Buckley applies his 80/20 rule–honing in on one action that will deliver 80 percent results in 20 percent of the time.
Each of the 44 actions includes three steps for achieving it, data and facts on why it works, and pro tips to maximize your results in the shortest amount of time. Fully interactive, each audiobook comes with a companion fillable PDF to download so you can complete the exercises Phil describes.
Being successful in change is not about being perfect; it’s about being fast and effective so you can move onto the next task or challenge. Change on the Run will help you line them up and knock them down.
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Conscious Capitalism Field Guide
- By: Raj Sisodia
- Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 10, 2018
- Language: English
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4.37(23 ratings)
4.37(23 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDYou subscribe to the basic idea that business can do more than make money, but you’re not sure how to act on that conviction or how to share it with the rest of your organization. The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide–the authoritativeYou subscribe to the basic idea that business can do more than make money, but you’re not sure how to act on that conviction or how to share it with the rest of your organization. The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide–the authoritative follow-up to the bestselling book Conscious Capitalism, by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, and leadership expert Raj Sisodia–gives you the tools for sharing and implementing the principles of higher purpose and conscious business throughout your organization. This practical guide provides hands-on materials–the same tools used in companies such as Whole Foods Market, Southwest Airlines, Life is Good, The Container Store, Barry-Wehmiller, Zappos, and many others–that you can use on your own, with your team, or with others throughout your organization to build conscious leadership and practices into your business. Organized according to the four core principles (higher purpose, stakeholder orientation, conscious leadership, and conscious culture) of Conscious Capitalism, the book provides exercises, worksheets, checklists, and instructions–for use both individually and with teams–as well as advice, examples, and real-life stories to help you apply these ideas and make them come alive in your organization. You and your team will: write a purpose statement learn how to create win-win-win relationships with all your stakeholders create a “culture playbook” for your company develop a leadership checklist for your organization build a personal leadership development plan set priorities for the coming year and beyond
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New Sales. Simplified.
- By: Mike Weinberg
- Narrator: Mike Weinberg
- Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publish date: August 25, 2020
- Language: English
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4.33(1320 ratings)
4.33(1320 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDNo matter how much repeat business you get from loyal customers, the lifeblood of your business is a constant flow of new accounts. Packed with tested strategies and anecdotes, New Sales. Simplified. offers a proven formula for prospecting,No matter how much repeat business you get from loyal customers, the lifeblood of your business is a constant flow of new accounts. Packed with tested strategies and anecdotes, New Sales. Simplified. offers a proven formula for prospecting, developing, and closing deals.
With refreshing honesty and some much-needed humor, sales expert Mike Weinberg examines the critical mistakes made by most salespeople and executives, then provides tips to help you achieve the opposite results.
In New Sales. Simplified., you will learn how to:
- Identify a strategic list of genuine prospects
- Draft a compelling, customer focused “sales story”
- Perfect the proactive telephone call to get face to face with more prospects
- Use email, voicemail, and social media to your advantage
- Prepare for and structure a winning sales call
- Make time in your calendar for business development activities
New Sales. Simplified. is about overcoming and even preventing buyers’ anti salesperson reflex by establishing trust. This book will help you choose the right targets and build a winning plan to pursue them.
Named by Hubpot as a Top 20 Sales Book of All Time, this easy-to-follow guide will remove the mystery surrounding prospecting and have you ramping up for new business.
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People Powered
- By: Jono Bacon
- Narrator: Jono Bacon
- Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: November 12, 2019
- Language: English
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4.24(121 ratings)
4.24(121 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDWhat if you discovered a blueprint that could grow your brand’s reputation and loyalty, dramatically reduce customer service issues, produce content and technology, and cement a powerful, lasting relationship between you and yourWhat if you discovered a blueprint that could grow your brand’s reputation and loyalty, dramatically reduce customer service issues, produce content and technology, and cement a powerful, lasting relationship between you and your customers?
Communities have been a popular topic since the rise of the Internet and social media, but few companies have consistently harnessed their power, driven tangible value, and effectively measured their return on investment (ROI) like Salesforce.com, Star Citizen via Kickstarter, and Red Hat. Companies such as PayPal, Facebook, Bosch, Microsoft, CapitalOne, and Google, have also built communities inside their organizations, which have fostered innovation, broken down silos, and helped their organizations to operate more efficiently and collaboratively.
People Powered helps C-suite leaders, founders, marketers, customer advocates, and community leaders gain a competitive advantage by answering the following questions:
- What is the key value proposition of building a community?
- What kind of community do we need and how do we build and integrate it into our organization?
- How do we incentivize and encourage people to get involved, build reliable growth, and keep community members engaged?
- How do we develop authentic, productive relationships with community members both online and in person?
- How do we get departmental buy-in, hire effectively, and create consistent, reliable community engagement skills in our organization?
- What are the strategic and tactical pitfalls and roadblocks we need to avoid?
- How do we make sure that our community continues to grow with us–and more importantly, how do we make sure that we continue to grow with them?
People Powered pulls together over 20 years of pragmatic experience into a clear, simple methodology and blueprint to not just answer these questions, but deliver results.
Don’t get left behind–become an industry trailblazer and ensure your company’s longevity by tapping into the most dynamic force both outside and inside your organization: the people.
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Restoring the Soul of Business
- By: Rishad Tobaccowala
- Narrator: Rishad Tobaccowala
- Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: January 28, 2020
- Language: English
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4.07(143 ratings)
4.07(143 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDFrom old-fashioned bricks-and-mortars to cutting-edge startups, businesses are moving into uncharted territory as they determine how to move from an analog past to a digital future effectively. How can you make sure not to leave human instinctFrom old-fashioned bricks-and-mortars to cutting-edge startups, businesses are moving into uncharted territory as they determine how to move from an analog past to a digital future effectively. How can you make sure not to leave human instinct behind?
Businesses are leaving behind traditional meetings in favor of virtual ones, transitioning from surveys and studies to analytics and algorithms. The startling and often unacknowledged truth is that?the promise of digital transformation can only be realized when we find a way to balance it with the promise of people.?In the end, it’s the people that matter, and companies must never forget the soul that drives them.
In Restoring the Soul of Business, business leader Rishad Tobaccowala?teaches you to:
- Understand how to unleash the significant benefit that can be realized by combining emotion and data, human and machine, analog and digital.
- Spot the warning signs of data-blinded companies: cold cultures with little human interaction, poor innovation stemming from discouraged employees who don’t contribute ideas, and poor customer service due to automated, robotic processes.
- Explore how organizations of various sizes and from different industries have successfully reoriented their thinking on how to fuse technology and humanity.
- Gain skills to become an expert in connections critical to growth and success, including the connection between being creative and using technology.
- Everyone working in an organization will find penetrating observations and guidance about how and why establishing the proper balance between human intuition and creativity and data-driven insights can lead to increased revenue, profitability, retention–and even joy–in their careers and business.
Restoring the Soul of Business provides practical tools and techniques that every organization can and should implement, and challenges you to move forward with the kind of balance that capitalizes transformation and produces one great success after another.
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Dual Transformation
- By: Scott D. Anthony
- Narrator: Scott D. Anthony
- Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 03, 2017
- Language: English
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4.05(174 ratings)
4.05(174 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDGame-changing disruptions will likely unfold on your watch. Be ready. In Dual Transformation, Scott Anthony, Clark Gilbert, and Mark Johnson propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today:Game-changing disruptions will likely unfold on your watch. Be ready. In Dual Transformation, Scott Anthony, Clark Gilbert, and Mark Johnson propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming your business in the face of imminent disruption. Dual Transformation shows you how your company can come out of a market shift stronger and more profitable, because the threat of disruption is also the greatest opportunity a leadership team will ever face. Disruptive change opens a window of opportunity to create massive new markets. It is the moment when a market also-ran can become a market leader. It is the moment when business legacies are created. That moment starts with the core dual transformation framework: – Transformation A: Repositioning today’s business to maximize its resilience, such as how Adobe boldly shifted from selling packaged software to providing software as a service. – Transformation B: Creating a new growth engine, such as how Amazon became the world’s largest provider of cloud computing services. – Capabilities link: Fighting unfairly by taking advantage of difficult-to-replicate assets without succumbing to the “sucking sound of the core.” Anthony, Gilbert, and Johnson also address the characteristics leaders must embrace: courage, clarity, curiosity, and conviction. Without them, dual transformation efforts can founder. Building on lessons from diverse companies, such as Adobe, Manila Water, and Netflix, and a case study from Gilbert’s firsthand experience transforming his own media and publishing company, Dual Transformation will guide executives through the journey of creating the next version of themselves, allowing them to own the future rather than be disrupted by it.
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Creating Great Choices
- By: Jennifer Riel
- Narrator: Jennifer Riel
- Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 19, 2017
- Language: English
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4.04(281 ratings)
4.04(281 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDA practical four-step methodology for any leader or manager facing a tough choice, and for creating integrative solutions to big, complex and pressing problems. Conventional wisdom-and business school curricula-teaches us that making trade-offs isA practical four-step methodology for any leader or manager facing a tough choice, and for creating integrative solutions to big, complex and pressing problems. Conventional wisdom-and business school curricula-teaches us that making trade-offs is inevitable when it comes to hard choices. But sometimes, accepting the obvious trade-off just isn’t good enough: the choices in front of us don’t get us what we need. In those cases, rather than choosing the least worst option, we can use the models in front of us to create a new and better answer. This is integrative thinking. First introduced by Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind, integrative thinking is an approach to problem solving that uses opposing ideas as the basis for innovation. Now, in Creating Great Choices, Martin and fellow Rotman expert Jennifer Riel vividly show how they have refined and enhanced the understanding and practice of integrative thinking through their work teaching the concept and its principles to business and nonprofit executives, MBA students, even kids. Integrative thinking has been embraced by organizations such as Procter & Gamble, Deloitte, Verizon, and the Toronto District School Board-all seeking a replicable, thoughtful approach to creating a “third and better way” to make important choices in the face of unacceptable trade-offs. The book includes new stories of successful integrative thinkers that will demystify the process of creative problem solving. It lays out the authors’ practical four-step methodology, which can be applied in virtually any context: – Articulating opposing models – Examining the models – Generating possibilities – Assessing prototypes Stimulating and practical, Creating Great Choices blends storytelling, theory, and hands-on advice to help any leader or manager facing a tough choice.
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Designed to Win
- By: Po Chung
- Narrator: Tanner De Bruyne
- Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4(2 ratings)
4(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDDesigned to Win, written by Po Chung–the co-founder of DHL–reveals the industry secrets they used to build a worldwide network that now operates in more than 200 countries and territories! Warning: Listening to this book and followingDesigned to Win, written by Po Chung–the co-founder of DHL–reveals the industry secrets they used to build a worldwide network that now operates in more than 200 countries and territories!
Warning: Listening to this book and following the advice within can result in designing an industry that doesn’t yet exist!
Start listening now to:
Discover how caring about things bigger than ourselves drives effective leadershipFind out how a unique marriage between Eastern and Western values inspired an inter-cultural leadership modelDiscover why you should address leadership needs rather than management needsLearn how to design, develop, and lead a global service networkUnderstand why superior leaders practice noble visions, competence, character and careLearn how to articulate human–and company–actualizationFigure out how better followers and leaders build more competitive networksDiscover how happy people led by happy leaders run like a well-oiled machine… and much more!
Designed to Win answers the question: How do I design a global company?
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Disruptive Leadership
- By: Christopher Catranis
- Narrator: Brian J. Callanan
- Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.96(24 ratings)
3.96(24 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDAre you ready to disrupt your industry? Disruptive Leadership, written by the founder of Babylon Telecommunications, reveals the 8 counterintuitive secrets that will skyrocket your business! Warning: reading this book and following the advice withinAre you ready to disrupt your industry?
Disruptive Leadership, written by the founder of Babylon Telecommunications, reveals the 8 counterintuitive secrets that will skyrocket your business!
Warning: reading this book and following the advice within can result in developing the key trait of disruptive leadership that has been integral to the success of leaders such as Melinda Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Sheryl Sandberg, and Jeff Weiner.
Start reading now to:
Discover how trusting your intuition lights your path toward wisdom;Find out why only giving others as much information as they can handle is a win-win;Discover how to build, sell, and rebuild a business;Learn the pitfalls of taking the power away from your partners;Understand the logical reason to get your ego out of the way;Learn how to improve yourself by embracing failure;Figure out how to guide others with humility and thoughtfulness;Discover how permitting others to manage their own decisions empowers your workforce; andMuch more.
Disruptive Leadership: 8 Counterintuitive Secrets to Running a Successful Business answers the question: How do I use my successes and my failures to lead others?
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Strategic Customer Service
- By: John Goodman
- Narrator: John Goodman
- Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publish date: February 05, 2019
- Language: English
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3.93(54 ratings)
3.93(54 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDAny organization can win more customers and increase sales if they learn to be more strategic with their customer service. When customers complain, employees respond. The typical service model is riddled with holes. What about people and businessesAny organization can win more customers and increase sales if they learn to be more strategic with their customer service.
When customers complain, employees respond. The typical service model is riddled with holes. What about people and businesses who never speak up, but never come back? Learn to actively reach out, prevent problems, and resolve issues in ways that boost loyalty.
Strategic Customer Service is a data-packed roadmap that shows you how. This invaluable resource distills decades of research on the impact of great versus mediocre service. Complete guidelines and case studies explain how to:
- Gather and analyze customer feedback
- Empower employees to fix problems
- Track your impact on revenue
- Generate sensational word of mouth
- Tap opportunities to cross-sell and up-sell
Strategic Customer Service draws on over 30 years of research from companies such as 3M, GE, and Chick-Fil-A to teach you how to transcend a good business into a profitable word-of-mouth machine that transforms the bottom line.
Why settle for passive service? Make a business case for ramping up operations–and get the tools for making it pay off. Transform customer service into a strategic function, and reap benefits far exceeding investments.
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Leading Digital
- By: George Westerman
- Narrator: George Westerman
- Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 17, 2017
- Language: English
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3.85(545 ratings)
3.85(545 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDBecome a Digital Master-No Matter What Business You’re In If you think the phrase “going digital” is only relevant for industries like tech, media, and entertainment-think again. In fact, mobile, analytics, social media, sensors,Become a Digital Master-No Matter What Business You’re In If you think the phrase “going digital” is only relevant for industries like tech, media, and entertainment-think again. In fact, mobile, analytics, social media, sensors, and cloud computing have already fundamentally changed the entire business landscape as we know it-including your industry. The problem is that most accounts of digital in business focus on Silicon Valley stars and tech start-ups. But what about the other 90-plus percent of the economy? In Leading Digital, authors George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee highlight how large companies in traditional industries-from finance to manufacturing to pharmaceuticals-are using digital to gain strategic advantage. They illuminate the principles and practices that lead to successful digital transformation. Based on a study of more than four hundred global firms, including Asian Paints, Burberry, Caesars Entertainment, Codelco, Lloyds Banking Group, Nike, and Pernod Ricard, the book shows what it takes to become a Digital Master. It explains successful transformation in a clear, two-part framework: where to invest in digital capabilities, and how to lead the transformation. Within these parts, you’ll learn: – How to engage better with your customers – How to digitally enhance operations – How to create a digital vision – How to govern your digital activities The book also includes an extensive step-by-step transformation playbook for leaders to follow. Leading Digital is the must-have guide to help your organization survive and thrive in the new, digitally powered, global economy.
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Change or Die
- By: Alan Deutschman
- Narrator: Brian Keeler
- Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 26, 2006
- Language: English
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3.85(651 ratings)
3.85(651 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USD“CHANGE OR DIE. What if you were given that choice? We’re talking actual life and death now. Your own life and death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you“CHANGE OR DIE. What if you were given that choice? We’re talking actual life and death now. Your own life and death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think, feel, and act? If you didn’t, your time would end soon–a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when change mattered most?”
This is the question Alan Deutschman poses in Change or Die, which began as a sensational cover story by the same title for Fast Company. Deutschman concludes that although we all have the ability to change our behavior, we rarely ever do. In fact, the odds are nine to one that, when faced with the dire need to change, we won’t. From patients suffering from heart disease to repeat offenders in the criminal justice system to companies trapped in the mold of unsuccessful business practices, many of us could prevent ominous outcomes by simply changing our mindset.
A powerful book with universal appeal, Change or Die deconstructs and debunks age-old myths about change and empowers us with three critical keys–relate, repeat, and reframe–to help us make important positive changes in our lives. Explaining breakthrough research and progressive ideas from a wide selection of leaders in medicine, science, and business (including Dr. Dean Ornish, Mimi Silbert of the Delancey Street Foundation, Bill Gates, Daniel Boulud, and many others), Deutschman demonstrates how anyone can achieve lasting, revolutionary change.
Change or Die is not about merely reorganizing or restructuring priorities; it’s about challenging, inspiring, and helping all of us to make the dramatic transformations necessary in any aspect of life–changes that are positive, attainable, and absolutely vital.
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The Customer of the Future
- By: Blake Morgan
- Narrator: Blake Morgan
- Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: October 29, 2019
- Language: English
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3.82(72 ratings)
3.82(72 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDWith emerging technology transforming customer expectations, it’s important to keep a laser focus on the experience companies provide their customers. Tomorrow’s customers need to be targeted today! Customer experience futurist BlakeWith emerging technology transforming customer expectations, it’s important to keep a laser focus on the experience companies provide their customers. Tomorrow’s customers need to be targeted today!
Customer experience futurist Blake Morgan outlines ten easy-to-follow customer experience guidelines that integrate emerging technologies with effective strategies to combat disconnected processes, silo mentalities, and a lack of buyer perspective.
The Customer of the Future explains how today’s customers are already demanding frictionless, personalized, on-demand experiences from their products and services, and companies that don’t adapt to these new expectations won’t last. This book prepares your organization for these increasing demands by helping you do the following:
- Learn the ten defining strategies for a customer experience-focused company.
- Implement new techniques to shift the entire company from being product-focused to being customer-focused.
- Gain insights through case studies and examples on how the world’s most innovative companies are offering new and compelling customer experiences.
Tomorrow’s customers will insist on experiences that make their lives significantly easier and better. Craft a leadership development and culture plan to create lasting change at your organization!
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- By: R “Ray” Wang
- Narrator: R "Ray" Wang
- Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: July 13, 2021
- Language: English
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3.79(30 ratings)
3.79(30 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDRead by the author. This audiobook includes exclusive thoughts and asides from the author expanding on the content included in the book. Which kinds of companies will thrive and which will get crushed by the powerful forces in the global businessRead by the author.
This audiobook includes exclusive thoughts and asides from the author expanding on the content included in the book.
Which kinds of companies will thrive and which will get crushed by the powerful forces in the global business landscape now at work? This groundbreaking new guide will help you adapt and change your business to thrive among digital giants, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
Drawing on considerable original research and case studies from Wang’s acclaimed firm, Constellation Research, this groundbreaking guide reveals which kinds of companies will thrive and which will get crushed by the powerful forces now at work.
Ultimately, you will understand how the business world is changing in the face of extreme competition and, most importantly, you will learn how to adapt now to stay relevant and in demand.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World will help you:
- Understand the power of Data-Driven Digital Networks and how they have driven the most successful companies of our time.
- Learn how extreme consolidation is changing the global business landscape and what this means for businesses of all types and sizes in terms of understanding where you fit in the value chain.
- Gain insights into what innovative companies are doing right now to position themselves in this new reality.
- Take your business from status quo to market leader.
Accompanying figures are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Engaged
- By: Amy Brann
- Narrator: Esther Wane
- Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.76(14 ratings)
3.76(14 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDNeuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of human psychology and behavior. By showing how to apply this new understanding to how you recruit, manage, and develop your people, Brann is enabling you to deliver a step change in organizationalNeuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of human psychology and behavior. By showing how to apply this new understanding to how you recruit, manage, and develop your people, Brann is enabling you to deliver a step change in organizational performance and individual achievement.
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Nincompoopery
- By: John R. Brandt
- Narrator: John R. Brandt
- Length: 4 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: July 16, 2019
- Language: English
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3.75(18 ratings)
3.75(18 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDCEO and award-winning business writer John R. Brandt offers concrete examples of how any organization can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. Nincompoopery–terrible customer service, idiotic businessCEO and award-winning business writer John R. Brandt offers concrete examples of how any organization can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent.
Nincompoopery–terrible customer service, idiotic business processes, and soul-crushing management practices–surrounds all of us. We lose time, patience, and profits as stuck-in-the-past organizations actively prevent us (and our customers) from getting the value we (and they) deserve.
In Nincompoopery, Brandt leverages research across thousands of companies to show leaders how to find and kill the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy.
It usually starts by asking simple questions, such as:
- Why should our customers have to rekey their data multiple times to make a single purchase?
- Why are there four levels of approval just to order basic supplies?
- Why can’t we get qualified candidates for open positions, or provide new employees with decent training?
- In short: How did we become such nincompoops? And when will we stop?
Brandt has worked with hundreds of companies to help them outwit competitors, and in this book, he shares his unique blueprint for success. Nincompoopery offers leaders the answers they need–and the profits they crave–with a scoop of humor on the side.
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Aesthetic Intelligence
- By: Pauline Brown
- Narrator: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 26, 2019
- Language: English
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3.75(318 ratings)
3.75(318 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDLongtime leader in the luxury goods sector and former Chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton North America reinvents the art and science of brand-building under the rubric of Aesthetic Intelligence. In a world in which people have cheap andLongtime leader in the luxury goods sector and former Chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton North America reinvents the art and science of brand-building under the rubric of Aesthetic Intelligence.
In a world in which people have cheap and easy access to most goods and services, yet crave richer and more meaningful experiences, aesthetics has become a key differentiator for most companies and a critical factor of their success and even their survival. In this groundbreaking book, Pauline Brown, a former leader of the world’s top luxury goods company and a pioneer in identifying the role of aesthetics in business, shows executives, entrepreneurs, and other professionals how to harness the power of the senses to create products, services, and experiences that stand out, resonate with their customers, and create long-term value for their businesses. The power is rooted in Aesthetic Intelligence–or “the other AI,” as Brown refers to it.
Aesthetic Intelligence can be learned. Indeed, people are born with far more capacity than they use, but even those that are naturally gifted must continue to refine their skills, lest their aesthetic advantage atrophy. Through a combination of storytelling and practical advice, the author shows how aesthetic intelligence creates business value and how executives, entrepreneurs and others can boost their own AI and successfully apply it to business. Brown offers research, strategies and practical exercises focused on four essential AI skills.
Aesthetic Intelligence provides a crucial roadmap to help business leaders build their businesses in their own authentic and distinctive way. Aesthetic Intelligence is about creating delight, lifting the human spirit, and rousing the imagination through sensorial experiences.
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The Power of Trust
- By: Sandra J. Sucher
- Narrator: Sandra J. Sucher
- Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 06, 2021
- Language: English
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3.74(31 ratings)
3.74(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA 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,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 market cap and reputation. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees, community members, and investors decide whether an organization can be trusted.... Read more
Based on two decades of research and illustrated through vivid storytelling, Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta examine the economic impact of trust and the science behind it, and conclusively prove that trust is built from the inside out. Trust emerges from a company being the “real deal”: creating products and services that work, having good intentions, treating people fairly, and taking responsibility for all the impacts an organization creates, whether intended or not.
When trust is in the room, great things can happen. Sucher and Gupta’s innovative foundation for executing the elements of trust–competence, motives, means, impact–explains how trust can be woven into the day-to-day and the long term. Most importantly, even when lost, trust can be regained, as illustrated through their accounts of companies across the globe that pull themselves out of scandal and corruption by rebuilding the vital elements of trust. -
The Marvel Studios Story
- By: Charlie Wetzel
- Narrator: Charlie Wetzel
- Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: May 26, 2020
- Language: English
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3.69(99 ratings)
3.69(99 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhat can you learn from the world’s most successful companies? Marvel characters have been shaping pop culture for decades and when comic books were no longer keeping the company afloat, Marvel Studios was born. Marvel Studios is theWhat can you learn from the world’s most successful companies? Marvel characters have been shaping pop culture for decades and when comic books were no longer keeping the company afloat, Marvel Studios was born.
Marvel Studios is the multibillion-dollar home to iconic franchises. They are known for creating brilliant multilayered worlds and storylines that allow their audiences to escape into a fantasy and inspire the creative side of every viewer. But, behind those visionaries is a well-oiled storytelling machine dedicated to getting the Hulk’s smash fists in the hands of every child and a sea of Spiderman costumes deployed every Halloween.
The Marvel Studios Story educates you on how one of the largest creative companies in the planetary universe runs their business and keeps their fans and their parent company, Disney, counting the profits. Through the story of Marvel Studios, you’ll learn:
- How to recognize and pursue additional revenue streams.
- How a company can successfully balance the creative with business to appease investors and fans alike.
- And how to keep a decades-old superhero franchise new and exciting without losing sight of its roots.
The Marvel Studios Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled a struggling comic book publisher to parlay the power of myth and storytelling to become one of history’s most successful movie studios.
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Big Data at Work
- By: Thomas H Davenport
- Narrator: Thomas H. Davenport
- Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 07, 2016
- Language: English
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3.59(62 ratings)
3.59(62 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDGo ahead, be skeptical about big data. The author was-at first. When the term “big data” first came on the scene, bestselling author Tom Davenport (Competing on Analytics, Analytics at Work) thought it was just another example ofGo ahead, be skeptical about big data. The author was-at first. When the term “big data” first came on the scene, bestselling author Tom Davenport (Competing on Analytics, Analytics at Work) thought it was just another example of technology hype. But his research in the years that followed changed his mind. Now, in clear, conversational language, Davenport explains what big data means-and why everyone in business needs to know about it. Big Data at Work covers all the bases: what big data means from a technical, consumer, and management perspective; what its opportunities and costs are; where it can have real business impact; and which aspects of this hot topic have been oversold. This book will help you understand: Why big data is important to you and your organization; What technology you need to manage it; How big data could change your job, your company, and your industry; How to hire, rent, or develop the kinds of people who make big data work; The key success factors in implementing any big data project; How big data is leading to a new approach to managing analytics. With dozens of company examples, including UPS, GE, Amazon, United Healthcare, Citigroup, and many others, this book will help you seize all opportunities-from improving decisions, products, and services to strengthening customer relationships. It will show you how to put big data to work in your own organization so that you too can harness the power of this ever-evolving new resource.
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Accelerate
- By: John P. Kotter
- Narrator: John P. Kotter
- Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 17, 2017
- Language: English
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3.58(628 ratings)
3.58(628 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.99 USDBased on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter. It’s a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategicBased on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter. It’s a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and appoint your best people to make change happen. And it does-but not fast enough. Or effectively enough. Real value gets lost and, ultimately, things drift back to the default status. Why is this scenario so frequently repeated in industries and organizations across the world? In the groundbreaking new book Accelerate (XLR8), leadership and change management expert, and best-selling author, John Kotter provides a fascinating answer-and a powerful new framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption. Kotter explains how traditional organizational hierarchies evolved to meet the daily demands of running an enterprise. For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Kotter advocates a new system-a second, more agile, network-like structure that operates in concert with the hierarchy to create what he calls a “dual operating system”-one that allows companies to capitalize on rapid-fire strategic challenges and still make their numbers. Accelerate (XLR8) vividly illustrates the five core principles underlying the new network system, the eight Accelerators that drive it, and how leaders must create urgency in others through role modeling. And perhaps most crucial, the book reveals how the best companies focus and align their people’s energy and urgency around what Kotter calls the big opportunity. If you’re a pioneer, a leader who knows that bold change is necessary to survive and thrive in an ever-changing world, this book will help you accelerate into a better, more profitable future.
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Dare to Prepare
- By: Ronald M. Shapiro
- Narrator: Ronald M. Shapiro
- Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.32(103 ratings)
3.32(103 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDDuring his forty-year career in the worlds of law, sports, business, and politics, Ron Shapiro has worked with a great variety of people. He’s found that the secret for getting into the winner’s circle is simply disciplinedDuring his forty-year career in the worlds of law, sports, business, and politics, Ron Shapiro has worked with a great variety of people. He’s found that the secret for getting into the winner’s circle is simply disciplined preparation.
In Dare to Prepare, successful people such as wine guru Robert Parker, investment legend Bill Miller, pianist Leon Fleisher, Goldman Sachs partner Lisa Fontenelli, broadcaster Bob Costas, firefighter Ann Marie Tierney, New York Mets manager Willie Randolph, and many others share the way they apply discipline in preparing for career-changing games, deals, meetings, and interviews.
Cal Ripken, Jr., played thousands of games in the major leagues but prepared for each like it was his first. Here are the steps necessary for you to prepare like a champion.
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Outsmarting Goliath
- By: Debra Koontz Traverso
- Narrator: Anna Fields
- Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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3.29(7 ratings)
3.29(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDOutsmarting Goliath confronts this paradox: Many of today’s consumers—potential customers—turn automatically to brand name products and services, forgetting that the well-advertised brontosauruses often deliverOutsmarting Goliath confronts this paradox: Many of today’s consumers—potential customers—turn automatically to brand name products and services, forgetting that the well-advertised brontosauruses often deliver one-of-our-sizes-fits-all service and impersonal sales help. Yet a single phone call, a cleverly crafted letter, a stunning catalog, winning ad, or a well-prepared face-to-face presentation can change a customer’s perception. In those crucial situations, the small up-starter can use the tips in this book to capture more clients and give Goliath a headache. Highlights include:
Choosing a name and location that bolster consumer confidence Projecting a big image without hiring more employees Capitalizing on the Internet as an equalizer
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Competing in the New World of Work
- By: Keith Ferrazzi
- Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 15, 2022
- Language: English
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3.26(94 ratings)
3.26(94 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe #1 New York Times bestselling author on how to win in a world of unprecedented change You’ve shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing things. But did yourThe #1 New York Times bestselling author on how to win in a world of unprecedented change
You’ve shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing things. But did your organization change enough to stay competitive in the post-pandemic world? Did
you fully leverage the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leap forward and grow stronger? Are you shaping the new environment to your advantage?If not, it’s not too late to learn from the best.
New York Times #1 bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, along with coauthors Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich, shows leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context. Based on an
ambitious global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and even their cultures, Competing in the New World of Work:
* Offers a bold new vision for the organization of the future
* Reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic
* Defines the new model of leadership–radical adaptability–for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and transformationCompeting in the New World of Work is both your inspiration and your road map to embracing new realities, motivating talent, and winning bold frontiers.
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The NBA Story
- By: Rich Mintzer
- Narrator: Rich Mintzer
- Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: May 26, 2020
- Language: English
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3.25(11 ratings)
3.25(11 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDThe NBA Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled the exciting basketball league to become the powerhouse it is today. Today’s NBA is filled withThe NBA Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled the exciting basketball league to become the powerhouse it is today.
Today’s NBA is filled with larger-than-life figures, like LeBron James, James Harden and Stephen Curry, who effortlessly dominate the courts. But it wasn’t always so glamorous.
The multi-billion-dollar league has grown from humble roots into a sports powerhouse that is loved around the world due to savvy digital marketing and a global focus. Thanks to the popularity of individual players and team rivalries, the NBA has survived league mergers and financial crisis. Teams have earned the respect of millions of loyal fans who are dedicated to the success of every organization within the league.
Through the story of the NBA, you’ll learn:
- How to keep a dream alive when it seems like no one wants to see it come true.
- How a company can find their way out of a financial crisis.
- How presentation is the secret sauce to the success of any show.
- And how a company can build a loyal fanbase who will do anything to keep them on top.
Discover how this iconic organization got it right and created a successful long-lasting business, and how you can do the same for your company.
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The Centerless Corporation
- By: Bruce A. Pasternack
- Narrator: Scott Byce
- Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1998
- Language: English
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3.14(12 ratings)
3.14(12 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.95 USDIn today’s fast-paced global business environment, the conventional model of the corporation and its management principles no longer deliver results. Economic upheaval, changing demographics, and technological revolution have forever alteredIn today’s fast-paced global business environment, the conventional model of the corporation and its management principles no longer deliver results. Economic upheaval, changing demographics, and technological revolution have forever altered the requirements for running a business today. Now, in response, The Centerless Corporation presents a radical new corporate model — designed for your organization’s survival, growth, and prosperity.
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Drawing on groundbreaking research they conducted at Booz • Allen & Hamilton, Bruce A. Pasternack and Albert J. Viscio offer a comprehensive strategy for managing in turbulent times. To deal with increasing complexity, they contend, leaders must abandon their command-and-control mentality and establish a model in which responsibility and accountability are distributed throughout the organization, employees are regarded as valued resources, and knowledge flows freely. Illustrating their ideas with invaluable real-life examples, Pasternack and Viscio explain how to attract and develop leaders, build coherence to unite all parts of an organization, and restructure business units and corporate roles to add value rather than overhead. -
The Sephora Story
- By: Mary Curran Hackett
- Narrator: Mary Curran Hackett
- Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: May 26, 2020
- Language: English
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3(1 ratings)
3(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDWhat can you learn from the most successful companies in the world? The Sephora Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that turned the makeup retailer into a paradise forWhat can you learn from the most successful companies in the world? The Sephora Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that turned the makeup retailer into a paradise for makeup enthusiasts everywhere.
Sephora is a playground for women, chock full of lipstick, eyeshadows, foundations, blushes, and so much more, just waiting to be experienced. It’s where teens learn to apply foundation and adults learn how to create the perfect smoky eye. It’s the cosmetic birthplace for the iconic Kardashian contour. And it’s a dominant brand, taking home a large portion of the $48.3 billion-dollar makeup industry.
The Sephora Story teaches listeners how Sephora was born in Paris in 1970 and has exploded since it opened its first North American store in 1997. Now, with at least one store in almost every mall, you may find yourself fighting to navigate the store.
But it’s just makeup, right? Wrong. It’s an experience, and this audiobook will teach entrepreneurs, innovators, marketers, and executives everything they need to know about creating an iconic experience for their customers. Through Sephora’s story, you will learn:
- How to lead the evolution of a decades old brand and how to relaunch it in a new market.
- How to create a customer experience that revolutionizes an industry.
- How to bring together multiple brands under one roof without compromising their identities.
- And how to reach a younger audience and ignite a passion for your product.
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The Capital One Story
- By: Mary Curran Hackett
- Narrator: Mary Curran Hackett
- Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: May 26, 2020
- Language: English
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2.33(3 ratings)
2.33(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDWhat can you learn from the most successful companies in the world? The Capital One Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled an unlikely credit card startup toWhat can you learn from the most successful companies in the world? The Capital One Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled an unlikely credit card startup to revolutionize the credit industry.
After twenty-five years in the credit card business, Capital One has earned its place in wallets across the world. When the company’s two young founders set out to individualize credit, the financial world thought they were crazy… until it was clear that they weren’t.
Working in the banking industry, Richard Fairbank and Nigel Morris saw that the one-size-fits all standard that the credit card companies employed was leaving big money on the table. They cracked the code and figured out how to customize the credit card experience by offering personalized designs, credit limits, and rewards, revolutionizing the way the credit card industry operated.
Known for their ubiquitous advertising campaigns with A-list talent such as Jennifer Garner and Samuel L. Jackson, the youngest bank in the business was once turned down by every one of their competitors but has since grown to dominate the industry.
Through the story of Capital One, you’ll learn:
- How to recognize underserved sections of a market.
- How rejection by every company in the business doesn’t mean it’s time to quit.
- How to determine what people want and how to get it to them.
- And how to employ marketing campaigns that will change the way people live.
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Strategic Thinking and Thinking Big
- By: Jeremi Suri
- Narrator: Jeremi Suri
- Length: 59 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 04, 2021
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDOne Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds ofOne Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Leaders frequently suffer from tactical overload. They confront a barrage of daily crises, meetings, and other demands on their time. They rarely have time to think beyond their inbox. They rarely have the freedom for creativity. This lecture will provide an explanation for why leaders must break out of this tactical straight-jacket, and it will offer a system for doing just that. Drawing on insights from historical thinking, this lecture will provide a series of concepts and tools for leaders to implement as they strive to think strategically, rather than tactically. The lecture will offer concrete methods and examples of how successful leaders have looked beyond the crises of the moment to push their organizations toward bigger and more important goals. Historical perspective offers the dynamic impetus for long-term success and creativity that all leaders require. This audio lecture includes a supplemental PDF.
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