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The Project Revolution: How to Succeed in a Project Driven World
Only a select few projects deliver their purpose, meet their expected goals, achieve sustainable benefits, satisfy most stakeholders, meet their deadlines and stay within their original financial budget. So what is the secret? What can we learn from the thousands of failed projects? And how can we develop a framework or tool that guarantees, or at least significantly increases the chance of, project success? Many of … [ Read more ]Author: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez | Subject: Project Management
The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
"Every chapter of Horowitz’s no-holds-barred book offers hard-won lessons for the CEOs of startups and rapid-growth tech companies. Unlike the pablum that many business book authors deliver, this entrepreneur and VC (Horowitz is a co-founder of Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz) refuses to sanitize the story: for instance, he admits that CEOs often don’t have great choices and, instead, must find the least-worst option to … [ Read more ]Author: Ben Horowitz | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win
The Four Steps to the Epiphany launched the Lean Startup approach to new ventures. It was the first book to offer that startups are not smaller versions of large companies and that new ventures are different than existing ones. Startups search for business models while existing companies execute them. The book offers the practical and proven four-step Customer Development process for search and offers insight … [ Read more ]Author: Steve Blank | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Innovation
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically … [ Read more ]Authors: Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur | Subjects: Innovation, Strategy
The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How To Do It
"Too often, companies invest in the trappings of innovation — boot camps, workshops, the occasional visit to Silicon Valley, skunkworks — instead of the actual work of innovation. In this readable, practical book, Anthony draws on years of consulting experience to explain how to make innovation actually happen. Chockablock full of real stories of successes and failures, red flags and remedies, the book is a … [ Read more ]Author: Scott D. Anthony | Subject: Innovation
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The Ten-Day MBA : A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering the Skills Taught in America's Top Business Schools
Silbiger, who is both an MBA and a CPA, aims to give the reader 40 percent of a two-year MBA program in ten days--a chapter per day. Whether or not one agrees with his premise, this book will prove to be a handy desk reference for potential and current MBAs, along with business people in general. Written in a clear and lively style, the ten … [ Read more ]The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
The world's most exciting, fastest-growing new market? It's where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power. You can learn how to serve them and help millions of the world's poorest people escape poverty. It is being done-profitably. Whether you're a business leader or an anti-poverty activist, business guru Prahalad … [ Read more ]Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times
In this book, two of the world's most respected sources of business insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential businesspeople of the past quarter century. These incisive profiles teach specific lessons you can use to discover, refine, and nurture your own leadership style... achieve breakthrough results... and accelerate your career progress. The team: Nightly Business Report, the United States' #1 daily TV … [ Read more ]Art of Case Analysis: A Guide to the Diagnosis of Business Situations
Making Strategy Work
Formulating strategy is one thing. Executing it throughout the entire organization... well, that's the really hard part. Without effective execution, no business strategy can succeed. Unfortunately, most managers know far more about developing strategy than about executing it-and overcoming the difficult political and organizational obstacles that stand in their way. In this book, Larry Hrebiniak offers a comprehensive, disciplined process model for making strategy work … [ Read more ]