Organizational Strategy

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.

The global coronavirus pandemic has thrown into stark relief how "business as usual" is no longer serving us. The economic, business, and environmental models of the past do not reflect our current realities. And for our economy - for us - to survive, we need nothing less than a seismic shift in the way we do business.

The revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of the classic, beloved business fable that has changed millions of lives in organizations around the world. Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple story about doing well under the stress and uncertainty of rapid change. Based on the award-winning...

Almost one in four American working adults has a job that pays less than a living wage. Conventional wisdom says that’s how the world has to work. Bad jobs with low wages, minimal benefits, little training, and chaotic schedules are the only way companies can keep costs down and prices low. If companies were to offer better jobs, customers would have to pay more or companies would have to make less. But in The Good Jobs Strategy, Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, makes the compelling case that even in low-cost settings, leaving employees behind - with bad jobs - is a choice, not a necessity.

Business Execution doesn’t need more training, it needs better systems Most businesses are struggling with leadership and performance. A few are breaking away from the pack by bringing a new dimension to their leadership, a groundbreaking new concept known as Process Intelligence (PQ). Building leadership systems through Process Intelligence, adding it to traditional IQ and EQ, is enabling leaders to build sustainable, scalable, high-performing organizations with significant bottom-line improvements. Through multiple case studies developed over decades, and real-world, step-by-step ...

Sun Tzu's Art of War for Women helps women find the peaceful path to success through strategies made famous in the ancient Chinese text, The Art of War. Female wisdom, or common sense, is about avoiding needless confrontation, conserving energy for the things that matter, and seeking an outcome in which everyone wins. And for women, as for Sun Tzu, success doesn't come simply from knowing what to do, but from knowing who you are.

Are You Ready to Stop Defending Learning—And Start Amplifying Its Value? For too long, Learning & Development (L&D) has struggled to be recognized as a strategic driver of business success. Despite launching powerful programs, L&D teams often find themselves justifying their worth, fighting for resources, and defending their budgets instead of being seen as key contributors to growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. But what if the problem isn’t that learning lacks value—but that we haven’t learned how to amplify its value? In Hidden Value, Dr. Keith Keating—author of The ...

Wall Street Journal Bestseller New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers and showing how leaders, teams, and organizations can shift from reaction to...

Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business? Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the real world works now. In short, strategy is stuck. Most leaders are using frameworks that were designed for a different era of business and based on a single dominant idea - that the purpose of strategy is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

What if the reason your projects keep failing, your culture keeps disappointing, and your best people keep leaving has nothing to do with strategy? In People First, organizational leader Melody J. Laughlin makes the case that the most expensive fiction in modern business is the idea that project management, organizational leadership, and human resources are three separate disciplines. They are not. They are three dimensions of a single, unified challenge — and organizations that treat them as silos pay for it every single day. Drawing on decades of experience at the intersection of people...

Unleash the Power of Customer Experience: Create a Winning Program Are you ready to take your organization's customer experience (CX) to the next level? In this thrilling guide, you'll discover the tools and strategies to build an unstoppable CX management program that propels your business from good to great. Step into the role of a daring leader equipped with the knowledge to craft a top-performing CX program that adds tangible value and agility and sets your business apart from the competition. Say goodbye to obsessing over surveys and scores and instead focus on intentional business ...

Build resilience in your company to weather the greatest crises. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the 10 most important ones to help your company prepare for and overcome disruption, social upheaval, and disaster.

Artificial Intelligence is not just another technology trend. It is the defining force of our generation, reshaping industries, disrupting business models, and rewriting the rules of competition. Yet, over half of corporate AI initiatives fail. Why? Because they focus on algorithms instead of organizations. In AI-Ready, you get the missing playbook. This is not a book about coding Python or the technical specs of neural networks. This is a strategic leader's guide to transforming your entire organization—its culture, talent, ethics, and operations—to harness the full power of AI. Inside...

The original edition of Discipline Without Punishment introduced a positive approach for getting problem employees to meet - and often even exceed - job requirements. The book still delivers on that promise, and in this revised edition, Dick Grote provides new insights, along with sample dialogues, memos, and worksheets.

This book is the fifth in a five-part series that explores how organizations can use the exIQtive method (pronounced executive) to build and run scalable organizations. After more than a decade of working with founders, CEOs, and executive teams, I’ve come to believe that Strategy dies in the gap between Intent and Behavior. When this happens, we say the organization is not Scalable. For an organization to be scalable 5 things must happen: Readiness – Employees must be capable of performing their responsibilities independently, consistently, and with clarity. Engagement – People ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the authors of Click and former Google Ventures partners, Sprint presents a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies. Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to...

Execution Excellence: Turning Plans Into Results Build Systems That Execute, Deliver Without Excuses, and Turn Vision Into Victory By Tony Deoleo — The Fighting Entrepreneur The Empowered Leadership Blueprint Series Deoleo Digital Publishing LLC Los Angeles, California 2026 DESCRIPTION Most leaders can create a plan. Only a rare few can execute it with precision, consistency, and unstoppable momentum. Execution Excellence: Turning Plans Into Results is Book 4 of The Empowered Leadership Blueprint Series — a high-performance leadership system designed to build leaders, build teams, and ...

In this revised and updated edition of Leading Successful Change, Shea and Solomon share success stories from a host of companies including Twitter, Viacom, and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, offering a tested method for leading successful change, which they have developed over a combined fifty years of helping organizations do just that.

Winning Together By Tony Deoleo — Best Selling Author, The Fighting Entrepreneur Success isn’t a solo sport — it’s a team victory. In Winning Together, Tony Deoleo reveals the mindset, systems, and leadership strategies that transform ordinary groups into unstoppable, high‑performance teams. Drawing from years of entrepreneurial experience, Tony shows how collaboration, communication, and culture become the ultimate competitive advantage in business and in life. Inside this book, you’ll discover how to: Build trust fast and create a culture where people feel valued, aligned, and...

Leadership is not just about personality. It is about the system you build around people, decisions, strategy, and trust. Lead the System is a practical guide for managers, team leaders, founders, executives, and rising professionals who want to create immediate impact without relying on vague motivation or heroic leadership myths. Henry J Highland shows that effective strategic leadership is not a mysterious trait. It is a repeatable discipline: seeing the real system behind workplace problems, making clearer strategic choices, building trust before speed, managing conflict with purpose, ...