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"How did Ron Shaich, the visionary founder of Panera Bread, build a little bakery in St. Louis into 2,400 restaurants with 6 billion dollars in revenue and annual returns of 25 percent, outperforming Starbucks, Chipotle, and all others? By seeing the future and clearing a path to it, leading and innovating from the future back. Now, Shaich shares his story, starting with its humble entrepreneurial beginnings: the college-campus convenience store he...
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Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? This book aims to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team.
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"A name can be a business's first impression, a product's calling card, and a brand's defining characteristic, and choosing a name out of thin air could cause devastating results. In The Naming Book, Brad Flowers, partner at branding agency Bullhorn Creative, presents a clear and actionable five-step framework to naming anything"--
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The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design.
Winning today isn't about beating the competition at the old game. It's about inventing a whole new game—defining a new market category, developing it, and dominating it over time. You can't build a legendary company without building a legendary category. If you think that
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Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are society's main source of innovation. Young founders leave college with a big idea, get to work in a garage, and build something that changes the world. Typical corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, are blocked from making transformative discoveries. In Driving Innovation from Within, strategist and advisor Kaihan Krippendorff disproves one of today's biggest business...
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Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving...
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The Brass Tacks Guide to Writing a Winning Business Plan is a complete guide to creating a world class business plan package. It will walk you step by step through the process of researching, synthesizing, and writing a compelling, fundable VC-caliber business plan. You'll get a real-world look at the process of writing a plan for the author's entrepreneurial adventure travel business, Neur Tours, while learning the ins and outs of industry, market,...
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Wake up and take control of your life and business! Darren Stephens and Spike Humer, two of the world's most Brilliant Business minds, reveal the secrets to how to transform your business and make it survive and thrive in any economic climate. What separates companies in any economy, any market or any industry is your ability to adapt, adjust and execute. Business owners who know where they are, where they want to go, and then take effective action...
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A buy-sell agreement (BSA) must set the rules of transition for a closely-held business. Author L. Paul Hood, Jr. shares 30+ years of experience writing BSAs to help business owners avoid the ugly consequences of a poorly drafted BSA. You'll learn about:
• Types of BSA agreements
• BSA trigger events
• Tax consequences of BSAs
• Best practices for best outcomes
Filled with expert information, handy checklists, and useful templates, “Buy-Sell...
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Too many companies limit their strategic thinking by focusing on what they already know how to do. Executives are expected to set concrete objectives and create detailed, step-by-step plans to reach them. This approach may satisfy short-term considerations like quarterly earnings reports, but it produces modest innovation and evolutionary development at best. As a result, the business can find itself in a performance plateau that it cannot seem to...
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Este libro cuenta la historia y delimita los emprendimientos sociales en México. Cubre el marco legal desde una perspectiva estratégica. Explica la teoría y la práctica del liderazgo en las empresas sociales. Asimismo diagrama el ecosistema del emprendimiento social en México incluyendo estrategias, fortalezas y debilidades, desafíos e impacto. También realiza un mapeo de los emprendimientos sociales con fines de lucro. Hacia la parte final...
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How do Success Heroes succeed in all of life all at once? They live from Vision. Vision inspires you right through your fears and opens the door to pain-free success. But you need the right contemplative and action skills to make your vision real. Want visionary success for yourself, your company, career or cause? THE VISIONBUILDERS' MANUAL is your skill-building guidebook. You'll gain these skills: How to discover the right vision for right now,...
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Learn to think like a billionaire. If you have ever dreamed of a better life, Millionaires & Billionaires Secrets Revealed will show you how to achieve the extraordinary lifestyle you desire and deserve. Learn how to master your own personal & professional financial future. You will learn: Wealth creation strategies of the ultra-rich. How to quadruple your speed to financial freedom. 5 key financial habits of the wealthy. The lifestyles of the rich...
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Fast Company blogger, NYU Professor and former McKinsey consultant, Kaihan Krippendorff, profiles the next generation business strategists: the "Outthinkers" and reveals the secrets to how they drive innovation and create competitive advantages in business.
Every domain - war, science, business - evolves through periods of radical change, revolutions. Such times divide us into "Thinkers" and "Outthinkers." Outthinkers step outside of the accepted...
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El lector está próximo a conocer la experiencia del Banco Colpatria en el avance directivo y gerencial para la implementación de la "Estrategia CERO", a través de la narración de los aspectos más relevantes de las actividades de innovación "en sus cuatro ámbitos: producto, proceso, mercadotecnia y organización" (OECD, 2006), descritas a partir del método de caso de negocios.
Dicha narración provee al lector las principales lecciones de...
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Der dramatische Wandel der Geschäftswelt und die stetig steigenden Herausforderungen für Führungskräfte hinterlassen deutliche Bremsspuren in der Geschäftsentwicklung deutscher Unternehmen. Warum finden viele trotz ausreichender Kapazitäten und Ressourcen nicht in die Erfolgsspur?
Der Wandel kann nur durch Führungskräfte mit den nötigen Kompetenzen und Fähigkeiten bewältigt werden. Das Zeitalter des Leadership ist angebrochen. Leader denken...
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The premise of 'Above the Fray' is that the Information Age is creating a turbulence most business owners fail to acknowledge or take steps to profitably manage. 'Above the Fray' offers a method of creating a vision that produces clarity. It teaches how to create plans with a bias toward action and speed of implementation. It suggests a systems approach to hiring the right team members who can handle today's fast-paced environment. Readers will discover...
19) HBR's 10 Must Reads 2022: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review
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A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Frances Frei to Morton T. Hansen and company examples from UPS to Apple, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.
This book...
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Great leaders of innovation know that creativity is not enough. They succeed not only on the basis of their ideas, but because they have the vision, reputation, and networks to win the backing needed to commercialize them. It turns out that this quality -- called "innovation capital" -- is measurably more important for innovation than just being creative.
The authors have spent decades studying how people get great ideas (the...
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