Career Strategy

The Strategy Cycle is a practical field guide for product leaders who need to make a real strategy and put it to work. It takes you from your first rough sketch through the choices, conversations, and ongoing work that make strategy useful—a repeatable practice, not a one-off planning exercise. Listen to it in one sitting. Put it to work Monday. You'll learn how to get from a blank page to clear choices: sketch your current strategy in about an hour, identify the critical challenge, clarify how your product will win, and choose the bets worth making.

A Best Non-Fiction Book of 2024 from The Next Big Idea Book Club and National Bestseller. From Seth Godin, one of the world's most influential business thinkers and bestselling author of This is Marketing, comes an essential guide to thinking strategically in a complex, ever-changing world...

The 36 Stratagems is a unique collection of ancient Chinese proverbs commented as military tactics. As an adjunct to Sun Tzu's The Art of War, the 36 stratagems illustrate a series of the most cunning and subtle tactics used in war and in politics, as well as in civilian life. The stratagems are broken down into 6 categories for the situations in which they are best used. They are: Winning Stratagems, Enemy Dealing Stratagems, Attacking Stratagems, Chaos Stratagems, Proximate Stratagems, Desperate Stratagems. Each category includes 6 stratagems (6 x 6 = 36). These stratagems can be combined...

A business's overall strategy may be set at board level, but many people throughout the organisation will be involved in deciding that strategy and implementing it - making decisions that are strategic in nature. On these decisions hangs the future of the business: how successful it is, even whether it is successful. Yet business history is full of strategic decisions, both big and small, that were weak, poorly conceived and consequently disastrous.

This concise audiobook is based on Mr. Drucker's summary of The Effective Executive done at the request of Harvard Business Review and is now one of their best selling published works. This article is a perfect way to learn about the subject broadly in a short period of time. Unlike many articles of this kind, summarizing a book's contents, this article was written and crafted by the author himself.

This audiobook was created based on Michael Porter's landmark book Competitive Strategy. This was Mr. Porter's synopsis of his book for the Harvard Business Review.

For readers of Never Split the Difference and What Every Body Is Saying, learn how to adopt top-secret spy skills to gain an unfair advantage in business and life. Information is the lifeblood of spycraft, and the key to unlocking opportunity, influence, and freedom in everyday life. But in a...

Own five of history's most influential books on strategy, power, war, and leadership in one complete audiobook. Together, these classics have shaped the thinking of military commanders, political leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and strategists for centuries. Their lessons extend far beyond the battlefield, offering enduring insights into leadership, negotiation, competition, preparation, decision making, and human nature.

Michael Porter’s succinct summary of his landmark book Strategy, considered the best book on strategy of all time.

Playing to Win, a noted Wall Street Journal and Washington Post best seller, outlines the strategic approach Lafley, in close partnership with strategic adviser Roger Martin, used to double P&G’s sales, quadruple its profits, and increase its market value by more than $100 billion when Lafley was first CEO (he led the company from 2000 to 2009). The book shows leaders in any type of organization how to guide everyday actions with larger strategic goals built around the clear, essential elements that determine business successwhere to play and how to win.

Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it can only be mastered by developing a new way of seeing the world. Using a diverse array of rich case studies - from pop culture, TV, movies, sports, politics, and history - the authors show how nearly every business and personal interaction has a game-theory component to it.

What's the right price for your new product? Millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy and pricing/marketing strategist Jason Marrs empower small business owners to take control of their profits by taking charge of the source: their price.

Right now, 70 percent of Americans aren’t passionate about their work and are desperately longing for meaning and purpose. They’re sick of “average” and know there’s something better out there, but they just don’t know how to reach it. One basic principle - The Proximity Principle - can change everything you thought you knew about pursuing a career you love.

Built To Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good...

Getting the job or promotion you want takes more than working hard and hoping someone notices. You need a clear direction, credible evidence, strong relationships, and the judgment to recognize when an opportunity truly fits. How to Earn the Job and Promotion You Want offers a practical career strategy for becoming the person decision-makers trust with greater responsibility. It explains how to understand promotion systems, build valuable skills, measure your impact, communicate your work, earn sponsorship, and demonstrate leadership before receiving a new title. The book also addresses the...

What if the most valuable asset in your career isn’t your resume—it's your voice? In today’s fast-changing professional world, visibility is power—and authenticity is currency. PRO VOICE is your step-by-step guide to turning what you know into what you earn by building a trusted personal brand, creating powerful digital content, and earning a “Knowledge Paycheck” in the new creator economy. Written by national career expert and Work It DAILY founder J.T. O’Donnell, this revolutionary playbook empowers white-collar professionals to reclaim their influence and future-proof their...

What if strategy could instead be clear, simple, bold, and even actually useful? That’s what No Bullsh*t Strategy is all about. It sweeps away all the garbled corporate nonsense and dry academic theorising to leave you with pure strategic sauce, which can be actioned right away. It’ll make you see your business in a totally new light, and effortlessly unlock insights you didn’t know you had in you. Even better, it makes strategy fun.

In an industry plagued by short careers and constant churn, Recruiting to Retain offers a better way.

Digital Marketing Strategy Explained is a clear and structured guide for beginners who want to understand how digital marketing fits together as a complete system. Instead of treating marketing as a collection of disconnected tactics, this audiobook explains how planning, execution, and evaluation work together to support real business goals in a calm and logical way. The audiobook walks listeners through defining clear objectives, understanding their audience, crafting meaningful messages, and choosing the right digital channels without overwhelm.

From the co-founders of Scaling.com, organizational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy and entrepreneur Blake Erickson, a revolutionary framework for not only owning markets, but creating them; for becoming so distinct in your business that you escape competition altogether. Most businesses try to...