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The must-read summary of Les McKeown's book: "Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track - and Keeping It There".
This complete summary of the ideas from Les McKeown's book "Predictable Success" shows that every business goes through regular and periodic stages of growth and decline. This pattern of organisational development has traditionally been termed the "Lifecycle of a Business" and is a well-known phenomenon. In his...
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The must-read summary of Jorge Vasconcellos E. Sa's book: "The Neglected Firm: Every Manager Must Manage Two Firms: The Present One and the Future One".
This complete summary of the ideas from Jorge Vasconcellos E. Sa's book "The Neglected Firm" shows that one of the central challenges of management is the need to strike the optimum balance between what a business currently does and what it will need to do to succeed in the future. In his book, the...
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The must-read summary of Peter Navarro's book: "The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage".
This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Navarro's book "The Well-Timed Strategy" shows how understanding the business cycle and then using it to maximum advantage is an unexploited area of business management expertise. And yet, it makes good sense to use the cycle to gain a competitive advantage over your rivals....
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The must-read summary of Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney's book: "The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future".
This complete summary of the ideas from Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney's book "The Two-Second Advantage" shows that the challenge of the future is to become better at predictive analysis. This summary highlights that if you can combine the right information at the right time and in the right context just far enough...
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The must-read summary of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton's book: "Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes".
This complete summary of the ideas from Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton's book "Strategy Maps" shows that many businesses share the same problem: they have intangible assets that cannot be measured and counted as market value. In their book, the authors give specific guidelines on how to build an accurate...
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The must-read summary of Thomas Baumgartner, Homayoun Hatami and Jon Vander Ark's book: "Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World's Sales Leaders".
This complete summary of the ideas from Thomas Baumgartner, Homayoun Hatami and Jon Vander Ark's book "Sales Growth" highlights that today's market place clearly requires companies to be very good at selling. In their book, the authors explain that the leading U.S. and European companies...
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The must-read summary of Ryan Matthews and Watts Wacker's book: "The Deviant's Advantage: How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets".
This complete summary of the ideas from Ryan Matthews and Watts Wacker's book "The Deviant's Advantage" shows how today's most commercially successful products began as fringe ideas that became accepted in the mainstream market. Given the speed at which today's markets are moving, it's far more profitable to try and mine...
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This complete summary of the ideas from John Warrillow's book "The Automatic Customer" explains that subscription-based products are becoming increasingly popular, as it means customers are buying from a business automatically each month. Rather than having to put lots of time and money into reselling to the same customer twice, you can sit back knowing that they will re-purchase automatically. If you want to follow in the footsteps of Amazon and...
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The must-read summary of Viktor Mayer-Schonberg and Kenneth Cukier's book: "Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think".
This complete summary of the ideas from Viktor Mayer-Schonberg and Kenneth Cukier's book "Big Data" explains that the concept of "big data" means using huge quantities of data to make better predictions based on patterns, rather than trying to understand the underlying causes in more detail. In their...
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The must-read summary of Paul Pilzer's book: "The Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry".
This complete summary of the ideas from Paul Pilzer's book "The Wellness Revolution" shows how the next big thing is set to be the wellness industry - providing healthy people with the food, nutritional supplements, preventative healthcare services and insurance that they need to maintain their health. In his book, the...
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The must-read summary of Faith Popcorn's book: "The Popcorn Report: The Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life".
This complete summary of the ideas from Faith Popcorn's book "The Popcorn Report" shows that for anyone in business, the future is a serious issue. Business success requires that you constantly evolve towards meeting the requirements of the future. In this book, the author tries to predict future trends and gives you ideas to help...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Robert B. Tucker's book "Managing the Future" shows how no business can afford to rest on its laurels and on the successes of the past. If there's one hallmark of long-term companies, it's the ability to manage the future as well as the present. In his book, the author demonstrates how great companies do this and presents three strategies used by them which you can adapt and implement. This summary provides...
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The must-read summary of Clayton Christensen, Scott Anthony and Erik Roth's book: "Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change".
This complete summary of the ideas from Clayton Christensen, Scott Anthony and Erik Roth's book "Seeing What's Next" shows that successful businessmen, investors and entrepreneurs all share one trait: they have the ability to predict industry change and either exploit the resulting opportunities...
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The must-read summary of Lars Tvede's book: "Supertrends: Winning Investment Strategies for the Coming Decades".
This complete summary of the ideas from Lars Tvede's book "Supertrends" shows that in order to be highly successful as an investor, there's no point looking at projected profits for investments in the next twelve months alone. Instead, you need to take into account the big picture and the underlying long-term trends to make astute investment...
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The must-read summary of Joel Barker and Scott Erikson's book: "Five Regions of the Future: Preparing Your Business for Tomorrow's Technology Revolution".
This complete summary of the ideas from Joel Barker and Scott Erikson's book "Five Regions of the Future" shows that new technology falls into one of five well-defined regions. In their book, the authors explain how you can make smart decisions about which technologies will ultimately transform...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Signal and the Noise tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Nate Silver's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
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The must-read summary of Robyn Waters' book: "The Trendmaster's Guide: Get a Jump on What Your Customer Wants Next".
This complete summary of the ideas from Robyn Waters' book "The Trendmaster's Guide" shows that new trends are not always spotted early by the ultra-hip types who are much cooler than everyone else. At the very best, these trend trackers help keep a business up-to-date with what is going on in the world. In her book, the author explains...
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The must-read summary of Paul Nutt's book: "Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Traps and Blunders that Lead to Debacles".
This complete summary of the ideas from Paul Nutt's book "Why Decisions Fail" shows that in order to make better decisions and avoid the debacles, you need to avoid the three blunders and seven traps that can lead to bad decisions. In his book, the author details each of these traps and blunders and how you can learn to spot and...
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Complete summary of Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson's book: "Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business".
This summary of the ideas from Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson's book "Make Your Own Luck" explains how "predictive intelligence" is your ability to act in the face of uncertainty to make your own luck and destiny. In their book, the authors have devised a four-step process that you can follow in order...
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The must-read summary of Jack Uldrich and Deb Newberry's book: "The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: Nanotechnology and the Future of Big Business".
This complete summary of the ideas from Jack Uldrich and Deb Newberry's book "The Next Big Thing Is Really Small" explains that nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter at the atomic level to create better materials, devices and systems, and is set to be the next big thing. In their book, the authors...
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