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When it comes to doing good business, change is a very good thing. And effective business analysts are at the heart of identifying opportunities for growth and implementing the solutions that can transform an organization's foundation-and ultimately increase its profitability. Whether you're an aspiring business analysis professional or a seasoned analyst looking for the latest techniques and approaches, Business Analysis for Dummies helps you discover...
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The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. Many translations have been made, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than other martial artists and people across East Asia. For instance, some foreign business leaders find its discussion of conflict and taking the advantage to be relevant to their work in a business context....
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"You can get two times, 10 times, or 100 times more leads than you currently are without changing anything about what you sell. This book contains the playbooks that took me from sleeping on my gym floor to owning a portfolio of companies that generate $200 million per year in less than a decade. Want to know the biggest difference between those two time periods? How many leads I was getting. The problem is-most business owners don't know how to...
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"Digital business transformation is a hot topic, and Publicis Sapient has been helping to digitally transform clients? businesses for 30 years. This book explains how to combine strategy, experience, engineering, data, and agile to produce stronger digital business outcomes. The book will include examples of the challenges faced by globally respected organizations to determine if they are going to defend, differentiate or disrupt themselves and understand...
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This is a book about survivor bias, the cognitive error of focusing on the winners, the successes, and the living. But in many instances, we can learn more from those who have lost, failed or died. After reading this book. you will understand how survivor bias is often used to deceive us. You will learn how to stop paying for financial services that promise more than they deliver, for health care that doesn't make us healthier, for diets that don't...
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"Here's exactly what this book will show you how to do: How to charge a lot more than you currently are -- The tiny market, big money process we use to laser focus on niche markets overflowing with cash -- The “unfair” pricing formula: How we multiplied our pricing by 100 (and got more people to say yes...for real) -- The value flip...so you never get price compared again (That's a promise.) -- The virtuous cycle of price: Use it to outspend...
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How do the most resilient leaders and organizations survive-and even thrive-during a market slowdown?
If you read nothing else on weathering a down market and returning to growth, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you navigate a tough market, stay resilient, and return to growth and prosperity faster than the competition. In this expanded edition,...
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This practical guide shows how to facilitate collaboration among diverse individuals and organizations to navigate complexity and create change in our interconnected world.
The social and environmental challenges we face today are not only complex, they are also systemic and structural and have no obvious solutions. They require diverse combinations of people, organizations, and sectors to coordinate actions and work together even when the way...
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A longtime broadcast journalist and ABC News Correspondent shows how, rather than try to deny, you can craft an honest and authentic response to any scandal and ultimately bolster your brand.
In twenty years as a television reporter, T. J. Winick covered many scandals, including the British Petroleum oil spill, the Pennsylvania State University football scandal, the Catholic priest molestation scandal, and the Toyota recall of 2009-2010. The biggest...
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We have been underselling the future. In fact, the future will be neither dystopia nor utopia (which is an actively harmful dichotomy) it will be what we do the work to make it. And the best way to the brightest future is to focus on what we CAN do, and make sure we are working to get there.
Between climate change, the impact on the future of work by intelligent automation, misinformation, and more, humanity faces several exponential changes and existential...
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Lead Your Business Through the Covid-19 Recession
The second global downturn in a dozen years is upon us—but do lessons learned during the Great Recession still apply? What must you and your business do, now, to ensure you come out the other side intact? Global Recession: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand the smartest ways to cut costs intelligently, find opportunities amid upheaval, and reshape your business...
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Long-term value creation-the board's new agenda.
A big shift in public ownership has created a new set of challenges for boards. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms, like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is, now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors, who own almost 60-percent of the Fortune 500. These investors are, stating in no, uncertain terms that simply managing for short-term shareholder...
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Get to better, more effective strategy.
In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how these companies achieve more by doing less. At a time when rapid technological change and global competition conspire to upend traditional ways of doing business,...
15) The politics industry: how political innovation can break partisan gridlock and save our democracy
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"Our political system has become big business--and business is booming--yet solutions to big problems seem impossible. Behold, the political-industrial complex. Rampant lobbying and gerrymandering. Election spending rising exponentially with each cycle. The Democratic and Republican parties competing furiously against each other for advantage, while together--as a duopoly--having a lock on the entire industry. And yet, who is this system for? Citizens,...
16) The prince
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Need to seize a country? Have enemies you must destroy? In this handbook for despots and tyrants, the Renaissance statesman Machiavelli sets forth how to accomplish this and more, while avoiding the awkwardness of becoming generally hated and despised. "Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be...
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"Explores how investing in a racially and ethnically diverse workforce will help make contemporary businesses more dynamic, powerful, and profitable In our fast-changing demographic landscape, companies that proactively embrace diversity in all areas of their operations will be best poised to thrive. Renowned business leader and visionary Carol Fulp explores staffing trends in the US and provides a blueprint for what businesses must do to maintain...
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