Business Strategy
Business Strategy
Many problems can assail an organization or its employees, and in The Instant Survivor, Jim Moorhead outlines methods that major companies and leaders use to respond to crises. Crises can cause people...
What does it mean to consider yourself a brand? When Ralph Lifshitz wanted to become a famous fashion designer, he didn't start by working 24 hours a...
Over the last half century, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have played a defining role in shaping the corporate landscape. In Intelligent M&A, Scott Moeller and Chris Brady illustrate that by...
Until very recently, companies thought of accidents as natural or normal. Natural disasters such as fires and floods have always existed and most companies know how to use risk management to protect themselves. But...
In his now-classic study, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, Henry Mintzberg traces the origins of strategic planning, describes its demise, diagnoses why it failed, identifies important...
The word salesperson can have ugly connotations; it often reminds customers of disengaged product-pushers who sell without passion or purpose. If a salesperson can transcend that image, however, and help his customers...
In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. The idea itself is a simple thing. The process of generating the idea, however, is what can be both tough and circuitous. How...
The failure to execute is a common problem in healthcare. Faced with a rapidly changing business environment, many progressive healthcare delivery organizations are now striving to become “high performance” health...
Teams are only as strong as their weakest relationships. How well and how quickly they make decisions, inspire innovation, tackle performance problems, or learn from mistakes depends on the strength of the team. Since...
In Predictable Success, Les McKeown explains that any business, any organization—any group of any sort—that grows and reaches for success is going to go through certain steps and will have to endure...
