STRATEGIC planning
STRATEGIC planning
America finds itself in a stagnant economy while the economies of China, India, Brazil, Germany, and other nations are growing. According to former American Express executive Steve Faktor, the reason for this...
Written with engaging insights and quotes from a variety of thinkers ranging from Machiavelli to Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, Deep Dive is a must-read for strategic CEOs. Author...
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...
Many leaders were taught to believe that an organization’s mission, vision, and values are the keys to its success. But too often, there is a substantial gap between abstract goals and on-the-ground accomplishments. In...
In Smart Growth, Edward D. Hess challenges commonly held business beliefs that businesses must grow or die, growth is always good, public companies should grow smoothly and continuously, and quarterly...
Management Reset by Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley presents a radical shift to the profit-driven business model that governs most companies. In the past, focusing solely on financial...
In Implementing Strategic Change, authors Tom Bevington and Danny Samson investigate why the most thorough business strategies can be disastrous upon implementation. They focus their attention on the...
In Beyond Performance, Scott Keller and Colin Price strive to offer an explanation for why so few companies that achieve excellence are able to maintain it. They make their case with extensive research...
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...
John Baldoni, author and leadership consultant, believes that “when organizations succeed, it is because they know what they do and why they do it. We say they have ‘purpose.’” In Lead with Purpose,...
