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Offers a unique business planning system that will improve the performance and competitive position of any commercial or not-for-profit organization.

Demonstrates the significance of old-fashioned preparation in modern-day success, examining research, practice, and discipline in the lives of Robert Parker, Cal Ripkin, Lisa Fontenelli, and others as they deal with personal or professional challenges.

A business professor at Duke University shows professionals how to become empowered "game-changers" that use circumstances to their best advantage through applying six different techniques to solve a variety of strategic challenges.

Presenting a major retrospective and prospective overview of strategy, this Handbook is an important benchmark volume for management scholars worldwide. The Handbook frames, assesses and synthesizes the work in the field. Chapters are grouped under four specific areas of strategy and management: Mapping a Terrain; Thinking and Acting Strategically; Changing Contexts; and Looking Forward. Within these parts, leading international scholars provide historical...

If you're a manager or business owner, you need tools to make better decisions--about business strategy, marketing, competition, positioning, product development, and much more. In Analysis Without Paralysis, two renowned experts on business analysis and strategy bring you those tools, in plain English!Babette Bensoussan and Craig Fleisher teach you exactly what you need to know, without dragging you through unnecessarily complex concepts or advanced...

From best-selling author and acclaimed journalist Geoff Colvin, this is a guide for managing through the recession that shows how companies can use it as an opportunity to restructure, reinvent and reimagine their business.

"Constantinos Markides contends that the essence of business strategy is to allow a company to create and exploit a unique strategic position in its industry. To do so, the company must make clear and explicit choices based on the answers to three difficult questions: Who should I target as customers? What products or services should I offer them? How should I do this in an efficient way? All the Right Moves offers concrete advice for thinking through...

"In this book, business guru George Stalk discusses five strategies that have not yet become widely practiced but are nonetheless worthy of your attention now. He offers advice on how to identify and manage them while they still present opportunities to jump ahead of the competition."--Jacket.

"This book takes us inside a number of robust organizations across a range of business sectors, as well as in government, the military, and more. From the examples set he extracts the four key traits common to all robust organizations: alertness, agility, adaptability, and alignment."--Jacket.