How to win market leadership in a fast-changing worldIn the past, companies could pick a strategy and stick with it, maintaining a competitive edge for years. But today, companies surge ahead, fall behind, or even disappear in mere months. If you and your company are going to thrive for the long run, you need to continuously evolve, change, and stay a step ahead of your competition.The ability to see and capitalize on new opportunities is the cornerstone of...

Is your company fast, creative, and adaptable enough to survive in today's volatile world?In our age of disruption, your company must be agile and courageous—yet it's easy to react to today's business climate with fear and indecision. Don't make that mistake. To move quickly and intelligently to the changes unfolding around us, you must be sure all levels and functions in your businesses are creative and responsive.Packed with practical examples, tools, and...

An organizations competitive advantage hinges on its ability to adapt rapidly and continuously to market change, and every business must develop the essential skills for capturing narrow windows of opportunity. Successful technology-based firms like Google, Apple, and Amazon have all mastered agility within their core business practices, and Amanda Setili shows how these companies and others spot new market opportunities and make the right choices about what to invest in, what to change, a...

Customer behaviors, business models, technologies, and regulations are evolving quickly, and many of the strategic rules we formerly lived by have become obsolete.To be able to respond quickly and intelligently to the fast pace of change, we need all levels and functions in our businesses to be creative and responsive. We need both courage and speed.Fearless Growth provides new rules to enable your company to adapt faster, move faster, and grow faster. You will lea...

**“One of the 12 best business books of all time…. Timeless principles of empowering leadership.” – USA Today"The best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution.” —FORTUNE**Marquet was a Naval Academy graduate and an experienced officer when selected for submarine command. Trained to give orders in the traditional model of “know all–tell all” leadership, he faced a new wrinkle when he was shifted to the

A research-based approach to achieving long-term profitability in businessWhat does it take to guarantee success and profitability over time? Authors Christopher G. Worley, a senior research scientist, Thomas D. Williams, an executive advisor, and Edward E. Lawler III, one of the country's leading management experts, set out to find the answer. In The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance the authors reveal the factors t...

Innovation principles to bring about meaningful and sustainable growth in your organizationUsing a list of more than 2,000 successful innovations, including Cirque du Soleil, early IBM mainframes, the Ford Model-T, and many more, the authors applied a proprietary algorithm and determined ten meaningful groupings—the Ten Types of Innovation—that provided insight into innovation. The Ten Types of Innovation explores these insights to diagnose patterns of inn...

Rethink your business for the digital age.Every business begun before the Internet now faces the same challenge: How to transform to compete in a digital economy?Globally recognized digital expert David L. Rogers argues that digital transformation is not about updating your technology but about upgrading your strategic thinking. Based on Rogers's decade of research and teaching at Columbia Business School, and his consulting for businesses around the world,...

The classic bestseller outlining tactics for any business striving to achieve market dominanceWhat does your company do better than anyone else? What unique value do you provide to your customers? How will you increase that value next year? Drawing on in-depth studies and interviews with the top CEOs in the country, renowned business strategists Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema reveal that successful companies do not attempt to be everything to everyone. Instead, t...

Selling is tougher than ever before. Potential customers are under extreme pressure to do more with less money, less time, and fewer resources, and they're wary of anyone who tries to get them to buy or change anything. Under such extreme conditions, yesterday's sales strategies no longer work. No matter how great your offering, you face the daunting task of making yourself appear credible, relevant, and valuable.Now, internationally recognized sales strategist Jill Konrath shows ho...

Successful network marketing entrepreneurs share their secretsIn The Ultimate Guide to Network Marketing, network marketing guru Dr. Joe Rubino offers readers a wide variety of proven business-building techniques taken from many of the most successful network marketing leaders in the industry. Presenting a wide range of different perspectives and tactics, this comprehensive guide offers beginning network marketers and seasoned veterans alike all the specia...

A roadmap and best practices that allow firms to leverage existing assets and pinpoint areas where new capabilities must be developed.Useful, clear-eyed framework: Gupta has an HBS- and real-world-tested framework to help readers know where to begin.Freshly told stories that illustrate real business dilemmas: Gupta uses stories of well-known companies told with a new twist to bring home his point while also using lesser known examples to keep things fresh....