Business strategy Books

The holy grail of project management is knowing, in terms of both budget and time, where you stand at any given moment, while making course corrections in real time. Most project management systems don't even come close. Joe Knight (co-author of the...

Does it seem you've formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can't get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution-an IT infrastructure and digitized business processes to automate your company's core capabilities. In...

Is your firm's board creating value-or destroying it? Change is coming. Leadership at the top is being redefined as boards take a more active role in decisions that once belonged solely to the CEO. But for all the advantages of increased board...

In Think Twice, now in paperback, Michael Mauboussin argues that we often fall victim to simplified mental routines that prevent us from coping with the complex realities inherent in important judgment calls. Yet these cognitive errors are preventable...

How should you grow your organization? It's one of the most challenging questions an executive team faces and the wrong answer can break your firm. So where do you start? By asking the right questions, argue INSEAD's Laurence Capron and coauthor Will...

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies.Just as corporate governance aims to...

Is your company spending too much time on strategy development&#0151with too little to show for it? If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most...

The first mile-that critical time when an idea moves from concept to paper to market, the real world, where it will fly or fail, and maybe take a company with it. It's a perilous place, with hidden traps and seemingly...

Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors An innovation classic. From Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, Clay Christensen's work continues to underpin today's most innovative leaders and organizations. The bestselling...

In the past, your company could rely on a handful of resources close to its home markets to innovate new offerings. But today, knowledge and other resources critical to your innovation efforts lie outside your company's home territories-sometimes far...

Reverse Innovation introduces the idea of developing in emerging markets first-instead of scaling down rich world products-to unlock a world of opportunities for your business. Written by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble of the Tuck School of...

If strategy is about creating a competitive advantage that allows a firm to win, then pinpointing your strategy to a few critically important choices will dramatically increase your chances of success. This is especially true in the volatile and complex...

A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success--whether you're proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the...

Accelerate, from bestselling author John P. Kotter (Leading Change, A Sense of Urgency, Our Iceberg Is Melting), offers a detailed explanation of his award-winning idea on a new "dual operating system" that allows organizations to move at the pace of...

Robust methods to identify new growth opportunities YOUR SHAREHOLDERS DEMAND growth; your company needs growth; and your career can suffer or soar because of how you drive growth-or don't. While executives often talk about their great growth plans, very...

A companion guidebook to the number-one bestselling Good to Great, focused on implementation of the flywheel concept, one of Jim Collins' most memorable ideas that has been used across industries and the social sectors, and with startups. ...

This combination planner-and-journal helps readers strategize their lives and increase their performance via writing prompts, self-assessments, and calendars--all backed by science and the author's 20 years coaching the highest performers in business,...