An eye-opening antidote to the endless-growth mindset, Big Enough offers an alternative path to career success.In this illuminating book, entrepreneur Lee LeFever gives an inside view of building a scalable, product-focused business, while never compromising on quality of life. Lee and his wife, Sachi, responded to the promise of the internet by building a home-based business, Common Craft, that was profitable yet small enough to pivot and innovate. Lee takes you through the multiple busin...

Your guide to becoming an explanation specialist.You've done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully - but something is missing. People just don't see the big idea - and it's keeping you from being successful. Your idea has an explanation problem.The Art of Explanation is for business people, educators and influencers who want to improve their explanation skills and start solving explanation problems.Author Lee LeFever is the founder of Common Craft, a...

In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area—not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans.It doesn't have to be that way, maintain Robert Kaplan and David Norton in The Execution Premium. Building on their breakthrough wo...

Rethink the Way You ThinkIn hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas?In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From the linear to the intuitive, this comprehensive handbook details ingenious creative-thinking techniques for approaching problems in unconventi...

The book explains that the social mobile cloud, a combination of three new technology changes, are the core ingredients of a digital transformation in business and society, and that they are moving more quickly and cutting more deeply than any technology transformation we have ever seen. It shows how the combined impact of social technologies, the mobile Internet, and cloud computing create incredible new business opportunities. The book provides understanding of the changes, why they are ...

Great leaders, influencers, and teachers have long used thoughtful questions to connect with other, challenge conventional wisdom, and shed light on our toughest problems. Power Questions sets out a series of strategic questions that can turn around a conversation and transform the other persons thinking. Each question will be presented within a real, engaging conversation to highlight its impact. Andrew and Jerry also describe how to develop new types of questions to suit every business a...

This book will show organizations how business model innovation should be a key focus area in today's global economy. It features cases from businesses around the globe who have developed their own business models to achieve high levels of performance and interviews from key executives. A primary focus in the book will be on the role of technology in driving and enabling changes to fundamental facets of a business. Business model innovation is occuring around the world, in essentially ever...

Turn Strategy into Performance!In today’s world of rapid, disruptive change, strategy can’t be separate from execution—it has to emerge from execution. You have to continually adjust your strategy to fit new realities. But if your organization isn’t set up to be fast on its feet, you could easily go the way of Blockbuster or Borders.Laura Stack shows you how to quickly drive strategic initiatives and get great results from your team. Her LEAD Formula outlines the Four Keys ...

You're intelligent, right? So you've already figured out that Business Intelligence can be pretty valuable in making the right decisions about your business. But you've heard at least a dozen definitions of what it is, and heard of at least that many BI tools. Where do you start?Business Intelligence For Dummies makes BI understandable! It takes you step by step through the technologies and the alphabet soup, so you can choose the right technology and implement a successfu...

Insights—like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA-can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more effectively solve problems and get things done. Yet we know very little about when, why, or how insights are formed—or what blocks them. In Seeing What Others Don't, renowned cognitive psychologist Gary Klein unravels...