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1) Winning
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Offers advice on the strategic, organizational, and personal challenges of every stage of a career, illustrating the author's business theories about getting promoted, writing budgets, and establishing a work-life balance
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Anyone who opts for self-employment quickly learns that succeeding as your own boss is no walk in the park. While professional freedom has many, many joys, it also involves significant risks. If you're considering self-employment, or you're already self-employed, “The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss” alerts you to the challenges involved and provides proven strategies for surmounting these obstacles...
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"Innovation isn't always about new products or services. In fact, many new ideas are realized--and then brought to market--thanks to a disruptive business model that challenges the conventional operating logic of an industry. In The Risk-Driven Business Model, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine--both professors at INSEAD--introduce a toolkit to help innovators better conceive the disruptive business models that create wealth and revolutionize industries....
6) Strategy
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Gale Presents: Udemy is an online learning platform that provides instruction for adults who want to upskill for a new job, advance in their current profession, or deepen a personal interest. This top collection, curated from courses from Udemy.com and powered by Udemy for Business, gives users access to relevant skills training, helping them achieve success at work and in life. Before enrolling, users can review key information about a course, its...
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John Kotter, the world's foremost expert on business leadership, distills twenty-five years of experience into Leading Change. A must-have for any organization, this visionary and very personal audio book is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future. The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used to strengthen their companies-total quality...
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Makers, doers, and dreamers--for decades they have turned to Inc. for help in getting their businesses off the ground. The publication's keen advice clarifies the process, while startup stories fuel aspirations and spark action.|?Warby Parker shook up the eyewear sector with its innovative, socially-conscious business model. Skullcandy tapped into the surfing, skateboarding, and hip-hop scenes--and built a standout audio brand. All along, Inc. was...
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[2016]
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"Brand Admiration uses deep research on consumer psychology, marketing, consumer engagement and communication to develop a powerful, integrated perspective and innovative approach to brand management. Using numerous real-world examples and backed by research from top notch academics, this book describes how companies can turn a product, service, corporate, person or place brand into one that customers love, trust and respect; in short, how to make...
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2024.
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"Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility. Structured problem-solving. Visioning. Political savvy. For every good leader who has mastered of one of these disciplines is a great leader who knows and has mastered all of them. Michael D. Watkins, an expert on leadership transitions and organizational success, returns to the page with a new how-to guide for the modern leader. Here, he presents the six disciplines that separate the great...
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2019.
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"The first prescriptive, innovative guide to seeing inflection points before they happen--and how to harness these disruptive influences to give your company a strategic advantage.
Paradigmatic shifts in the business landscape, known as inflection points,can either create new, entrepreneurial opportunities (see Amazon and Netflix)or they can lead to devastating consequences (e.g., Blockbuster and Toys R Us). Only thoseleaders who can "see...
Paradigmatic shifts in the business landscape, known as inflection points,can either create new, entrepreneurial opportunities (see Amazon and Netflix)or they can lead to devastating consequences (e.g., Blockbuster and Toys R Us). Only thoseleaders who can "see...
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[2022]
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"The artificial intelligence revolution is leaving behind small businesses and organizations who cannot afford to hire in-house teams of data scientists to build bespoke models. This book explores the nature of repeated quantitative tasks driving business optimization, from the perspective of economics, statistics, decision making under uncertainty, and privacy preserving computation"--
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[2014]
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"The marketing blueprint you need to drive corporate growth. Based on an expansive, long-term study of proven marketing plans, The Ultimate Guide to Strategic Marketing provides decision makers with the knowledge and insight they need to overhaul their marketing strategies--not just come up with short-term, quick-fix solutions. It covers virtually every topic important to marketing executives, including: Planning in the context of the global/e-commerce...
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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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"Are you a high potential charting your course within your current organization, a leader trying to jumpstart innovative thinking in your company? Or are you ready to do something new? Consider this simple yet powerful idea: disruptive companies and ideas upend markets by doing something truly different - they see a need, an empty space waiting to be filled, and they dare to create something for which a market may not yet exist. An expert in driving...
20) Only the paranoid survive: how to exploit the crisis points that challenge every company and career
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c1996
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