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| Author | : Alan Lewis |
| Publisher | : Harvard Business Review Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2015-12-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1633690164 |
Are you missing opportunities for growth that are right in front of you? In today’s volatile economic environment, filled with uncertainty and sudden change, the forces pushing you to stay focused on the core business are extremely powerful. Profiting from the core is crucial, but the danger is that overfocus on the core can blind companies. Scanning the horizon for new markets and new products can also be tempting, but risky. Fixating too much on either strategy can cause you to miss the substantial opportunities for growth that are often hidden in plain sight, at the edge of the core business. In this insightful yet practical book, strategy experts Alan Lewis and Dan McKone articulate a mindset that helps leaders recognize and capitalize on these opportunities. The Edge Strategy framework challenges how the boundaries of your existing products and services map to your customers’ views of the world and then provides three different lenses through which you can see and leverage value: • Product edge. How to capture incremental profits and other benefits by slightly altering the elements and composition of a core offering • Journey edge. How to create and capture extra value by adjusting your role in supporting the customer’s journey to and through your offering • Enterprise edge. How to unlock additional value from resources and capabilities that support your core offering by applying them in a different context, for a different offering or different set of customers With engaging examples across many industries, Lewis and McKone coach you on how to identify and assess each of the different “edges” and then provide concrete insights and advice on applying edge strategy and tactics to use in specific business contexts. The book concludes with a ten-step process to help executives and managers find and leverage the edges in their own companies. Edge Strategy is the concise, hands-on guide for growing your business by getting more yield from assets already in place, relationships already established, and investments already made.
| Author | : Cyndi Maxey |
| Publisher | : FT Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780131424814 |
From the coauthor of "Training from the Heart" comes a motivational book on living one's best life at home or at work.
| Author | : Peter J. Williamson |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2020-04-14 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1503611868 |
To succeed in the face of disruptive competition, companies will need to harness the power of a wide range of partners who can bring different skills, experience, capacity, and their own networks to the task. With the advent of new technologies, rapidly changing customer needs, and emerging competitors, companies across more and more industries are seeing their time-honored ways of making money under threat. In this book, Arnoud De Meyer and Peter J. Williamson explain how business can meet these challenges by building a large and dynamic ecosystem of partners that reinforce, strengthen, and encourage innovation in the face of ongoing disruption. While traditional companies know how to assemble and manage supply chains, leading the development of a vibrant ecosystem requires a different set of capabilities. Ecosystem Edge illustrates how executives need to leave notions of command and control behind in favor of strategies that will attract partners, stimulate learning, and promote the overall health of the network. To understand the practical steps executives can take to achieve this, the authors focus on eight core examples that cross industries and continents: Alibaba Group, Amazon.com, ARM, athenahealth, Dassault Systèmes S.E., The Guardian, Rolls-Royce, and Thomson Reuters. By following the principles outlined in this book, leaders can learn how to unlock rapid innovation, tap into new and original sources of value, and practice organizational flexibility. As a result, companies can gain the ecosystem edge, a key advantage in responding to the challenges of disruption that business sees all around it today.
| Author | : Michael Useem |
| Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2021-06-22 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1541774108 |
“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” —Jim Whittaker, first American to climb Mt. Everest A leader’s job—in a radically changing world—is standing on the cliff edge, getting a grip on unfamiliar landscapes, and acquiring the skills for leading the enterprise into new territory. In a world facing the unprecedented challenges of global pandemic and economic distruption, every leader needs to find the edge for leaping across the breach and breaking new ground on the other side. Michael Useem provides rare insight into how ten leaders confronted hard realities. He looked close-in at the lide and work of people such as Bill McNabb of Vanguard, Jeffrey Lurie of the Philadelphia Eagles, Alex Gorsky of Johnson & Johnson, and Tricia Griffith of Progressive Insurance. His “you are there” profiles chronicle fateful decisions such as: Meeting the concerns of a next-generation workforce that considers inclusiveness an integral part of business Developing a strategy for growth in a market that is cratering Escaping the confines of an insane, always-on, 24/7 world to learn about the real, granular changes happening in the marketplace Useem’s profiles of leaders on the edge provide the inspiration and the guidance we all need for adapting and thriving in an era of massive disruption and continuous transformation.
| Author | : Kim Zoller |
| Publisher | : Career Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Business communication |
| ISBN | : 9781632650108 |
GetAbstract Summary: Get the key points from this book in less than 10 minutes. Many professionals make common communication mistakes that detract from their image and hamper the clear delivery of their intended message. Ordinary pitfalls, such as interrupting, reacting without planning what to say or not being aware of your image, may be holding you back professionally. Communications experts Kim Zoller and Kerry Preston identify the 16 worst communication blunders, tell you how to correct or avoid them, answer recurring questions, and offer goal-planning strategies you can incorporate into your daily schedule. Though some of the advice is familiar, Zoller and Preston's smart and attractive compilation offers precision, brevity and concision. getAbstract recommends their highly useful manual as a ready-reference guidebook for business newcomers and as a welcome reminder for seasoned professionals. Book Publisher: Career Press
| Author | : Matt Tenney |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2016-02-10 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1119183243 |
The one habit that can improve almost every leadership skill There is a simple practice that can improve nearly every component of leadership excellence and it doesn't require adding anything to your busy schedule. In The Mindfulness Edge, you'll discover how a subtle inner shift, called mindfulness, can transform things that you already do every day into opportunities to become a better leader. Author Matt Tenney has trained leaders around the world in the practice of mindfulness. In this book, he partners with neuroscientist Tim Gard, PhD, to offer step-by-step, practical guidance for quickly and seamlessly integrating mindfulness training into your daily life—rewiring your brain in ways that improve both the ‘hard' and ‘soft' skills of leadership. In this book, you'll learn how mindfulness training helps you: Quickly improve business acumen and your impact on the bottom line Become more innovative and attract/retain innovative team members Develop the emotional intelligence essential for creating and sustaining a winning culture Realize the extraordinary leadership presence that inspires greatness in others The authors make a compelling case for why mindfulness training may be the 'ultimate success habit.' In addition to helping you improve the most essential elements of highly effective leadership, mindfulness training can help you discover unconditional happiness and realize incredible meaning—professionally and personally.
| Author | : Jim Highsmith |
| Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Professional |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2019-08-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0135263581 |
EDGE: The Agile Operating Model That Will Help You Successfully Execute Your Digital Transformation “[The authors’] passion for technology allows them to recognize that for most enterprises in the 21st century, technology is THE business. This is what really separates the EDGE approach. It is a comprehensive operating model with technology at its core.” —From the Foreword by Heidi Musser, Executive Vice President and Principal Consultant, Leading Agile; retired, Vice President and CIO, USAA Maximum innovation happens at the edge of chaos: the messy, risky, and uncertain threshold between randomness and structure. Operating there is uncomfortable but it’s where organizations “invent the future.” EDGE is a set of fast, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven tools to achieve digital transformation, and EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is your guide to using this operating model for innovation. Jim Highsmith is one of the world’s leading agile pioneers and a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto. He, Linda Luu, and David Robinson know from their vast in-the-trenches experience that sustainable digital transformation requires far more than adopting isolated agile practices or conventional portfolio management. This hard, indispensable work involves changing culture and mindset, and going beyond transforming the IT department. EDGE embraces an adaptive mindset in the face of market uncertainty, a visible, value-centered portfolio approach that encourages continual value linkages from vision to detailed initiatives, incremental funding that shifts as strategies evolve, collaborative decision-making, and better risk mitigation. This guide shows leaders how to use the breakthrough EDGE approach to go beyond incremental improvement in a world of exponential opportunities. Build an organization that adapts fast enough to thrive Clear away unnecessary governance processes, obsolete “command and control” leadership approaches, and slow budgeting/planning cycles Improve collaboration when major, fast-paced responses are necessary Continually optimize investment allocation and monitoring based on your vision and goals Register your product for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
| Author | : Sylvia Ann Hewlett |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2014-06-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0062246909 |
Are you “leadership material?” More importantly, do others perceive you to be? Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a noted expert on workplace power and influence, shows you how to identify and embody the Executive Presence (EP) that you need to succeed. You can have the experience and qualifications of a leader, but without executive presence, you won't advance. EP is an amalgam of qualities that true leaders exude, a presence that telegraphs you're in charge or deserve to be. Articulating those qualities isn't easy, however. Based on a nationwide survey of college graduates working across a range of sectors and occupations, Sylvia Hewlett and the Center for Talent Innovation discovered that EP is a dynamic, cohesive mix of appearance, communication, and gravitas. While these elements are not equal, to have true EP, you must know how to use all of them to your advantage. Filled with eye-opening insights, analysis, and practical advice for both men and women, mixed with illustrative examples from executives learning to use the EP, Executive Presence will help you make the leap from working like an executive to feeling like an executive.
| Author | : Kim Zoller |
| Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 2015-09-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1632659891 |
Hone your professional people skills with this guide to proper and improper business communication and etiquette. A study of thousands of fired employees, conducted by Harvard University’s Bureau of Vocational Guidance, revealed that for every one person fired for performance-related issues, two lost their jobs for failure to deal with other people successfully and professionally. Setting yourself apart in today’s highly competitive business environment takes thought and planning. Not only must you have excellent job skills, but you must also have excellent people skills. You Did What?! gives you solid techniques that can be used right away to achieve effective results. Inside you will find: Quick tips and strategies on professional behaviors. Real-life stories of how business behavior can make or break your career Tools to compete with and differentiate yourself from your competitors Whether you are a seasoned executive or a recent college graduate, You Did What?! will prepare you to handle a wide variety of business situations correctly. Praise for You Did What?! “This is a great book! Zeller and Preston give some great advice when it comes to setting yourself apart in business.” —JJ Ramberg, host of MSNBC’s Your Business and author of It’s Your Business “This book is so important that we use it in our Mattel Corporate University. Knowing how to handle business situations correctly can make or break a career. You Did What?! is the answer.” —Ann Adams, director of management development, Mattel, Inc. “The details in business do matter. This book is the foundation for building successful careers.” —Carl Sewell, chairman, Sewell Automotive Companies, author of Customers for Life
| Author | : Irving H. Buchen |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1610480775 |
Executive Intelligence zeros in on leadership smarts and notes that in all lists compiled by leadership experts, head hunters, and boards of directors the one and only trait that appears in all is intelligence. Obvious? No, because typically leadership savvy regularly trumps smarts. That is unfortunate because it obscures the cultivation and development of how leaders think, speculate, conceive, and problem solve their own firms and the way they lead. Executive intelligence like emotional intelligence acts like an advanced scout sizing up situations, identifying mine fields, creating contingencies, developing last minute ways out, and then acting like the artful dodger. In the process, the leader develops a special kind of intelligence tied to and defining the kind if leader he or she is; and that ultimately generates the leader's edge and comparative advantage.
