Strategic Performance

After matching online, two strangers—played by Heléne Yorke (The Other Two) and Michael Zegen (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)—meet in real life. The vibe is off, and the conversation is a mess. Yet something is keeping them in their seats. What begins as a typical date off the apps spirals into something unexpected.

In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee provides executives with a simple tool to cut through technological complexity and market uncertainties. The Value Stick, based on proven economic mechanics, is an extraordinarily powerful tool that helps executives decide where to focus their attention and how to deepen their firm's competitive advantage.

No more information dumps! Map It helps you turn training requests into projects that make a real difference. You'll learn how to: Help the client identify what's really causing the performance problem. Determine the role (if any!) of training. Create realistic activities that help people practice what they need to do, not just show what they know. Choose the best format for each activity -- online, projected to a group, on paper, as a small-group activity, over email... Provide each activity at the best time -- in the workflow, available on demand, spaced over time... Let people pull the ...

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 ...

The essential complement to the pathbreaking Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into activities, or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage.

Strategic Empathy for Systemic Change in STEM is a practical, research-driven guide to transforming how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields support inclusion, equity, and leadership. Moving beyond surface-level diversity efforts, this book introduces strategic empathy as a powerful framework for reshaping policies, practices, and power structures across technical workplaces. Dr Shara Cohen explores how empathy can be embedded into feedback systems, leadership models, hiring practices, and innovation pipelines. Each chapter provides actionable insights designed to help ...

Decisions shape organizations. Decisiveness defines leaders. In today’s volatile, fast-paced world, hesitation isn’t just costly—it’s fatal. Organizations are drowning in data but starving for insights, paralyzed by complexity, and slowed by misaligned strategies. The leaders who thrive aren’t just fast or bold—they’re decisively aligned. The Decisive Company by Steve Elliott redefines decision-making for the modern enterprise.

Facing organizational silos or resistance to change? Stakeholders pulling in different directions? Can’t align, get real buy-in, or jumpstart implementation? The problem is traditional planning no longer guarantees success. Rapid change, uncertainty, new technologies, and a flatter world call for a new approach. The award-winning Strategy-In-Action tells how companies ended the long-standing divorce between planners and implementers.

Discover the untold training philosophy of Arnold Schwarzenegger—one built not on brute intensity, but on intelligent cycles of effort, recovery, and adaptation. Iron Cycles reveals how the world’s most iconic bodybuilder trained across eras, injuries, and shifting goals to build muscle that lasted—and how you can do the same. From his raw beginnings in Austrian basements to the punishing Olympia years, movie sets, surgeries, political office, and beyond, this book lays out the system Arnold followed: strategic training phases designed to evolve with your age, lifestyle, and ...

Cost reduction...productivity improvement...customer retention...these are the promises of the Six Sigma quality management system. The Six Sigma Way reveals how GE, Motorola, and numerous other companies are successfully using Six Sigma to fine-tune products and processes, improve performance, and increase profits. Now you can hear the road map for implementing Six Sigma in your manufacturing or service organization.

There's a bewildering array of management tools out there. And they all promise to help you excel at the toughest parts of your job: defining your organization's strategic direction, managing customers and costs, and boosting workforce performance. But just 30 percent of these tools deliver as intended. Why? As Jeremy Hope and Steve Player reveal in Beyond Performance Management, while many tools are sound in theory, they're misused by most organizations. For example, executives buy and implement a tool without first asking, "What problem are we trying to solve?"

Resilience is not an innate character trait. Whether you’re in a leadership role or working as part of a team, you need to implement strategies that build and nurture resilience. You need a resilience plan. Award-winning mental health expert Marie-Hélène Pelletier draws on her clinical practice and extensive knowledge in therapeutics and business practices to explore how resilience is the best defense against burnout and how everyone can build it in themselves—not with a one-size-fits-all plan but with strategies to help you create a custom plan.

Unlock the Billionaire Morning Mindset: Transform Your Life Before Breakfast. Are you tired of starting your day feeling rushed, reactive, and already behind? Do you sense an untapped potential within your first few hours that could catapult you towards your most ambitious goals? Imagine harnessing the "golden hour" – that quiet, potent window used by the world's highest achievers – to build unstoppable momentum, cultivate profound clarity, and operate with peak focus. This isn't just about waking up early; it's about waking up with purpose, intention, and a strategic framework to ...

This CMA Part 1 study guide dives deep into the core concepts of financial planning, performance, and analytics, ensuring a thorough understanding of each topic. Key Features: Comprehensive Coverage: Each chapter meticulously covers the key areas of the CMA Part 1 exam, including financial planning, external financial reporting decisions, financial statement analysis, budgeting, performance management, cost management, internal controls, and more. Detailed Explanations: Concepts are explained in a straightforward manner, making complex topics accessible and easy to understand. Each chapter ...

How High-Level Leaders Reclaim Clarity, Prioritize What Matters, and Lead with Lasting ImpactYou’ve achieved what others only dream of: power, influence, and performance at the highest levels. But behind the full calendar and impressive résumé is a quieter question: “Is all this motion creating meaningful momentum?” In The Executive’s Guide to Getting Things Done, book creation strategist Candace Sinclair invites C-suite leaders, executive entrepreneurs, and high-performing experts into a more intentional way of working and living. This isn’t a productivity hack or time-blocking...

Managing an effective sales organization is key to revenue generation, customer satisfaction, and business results. But whether you're a sales manager or leading a large sales force, it's increasingly challenging to balance success today with driving the digital sales transformation that will position your team for the future. With actionable insights and examples from many industries worldwide, the HBR Sales Management Handbook provides the resources you need to build value for your company, your customers, and your sales teams.

Dive into the dynamic world of human resource management with "HR Essentials," a comprehensive guide that navigates through the ever-evolving workplace landscape. Are you seeking to align your company's people strategy with its overarching goals? Are you on a quest to acquire the best talent while retaining your star performers? Look no further—this groundbreaking eBook is the ultimate resource for today's HR professionals, business leaders, and anyone with a keen interest in the art of people management. Embark on a journey exploring the roots and revolutionary trends of HR with our ...

Transform your leadership capabilities in record time, even if you've faced obstacles and setbacks along the way. Are you constantly facing leadership challenges that make it difficult to steer your team effectively? Do you find yourself grappling with the rapid pace of change and worrying about how to grow and scale your business confidently? The journey to exceptional leadership begins here. If you're an entrepreneur or business leader overwhelmed with perfecting your leadership skills, you’re in the right place. My Leadership Development Skills Made Simple is meticulously crafted for ...

What is the best structure for a corporate management system? How to organize and advance, in a fluid way, a continuous business improvement? Are we just going to copy existing solutions or are we going to innovate our practice? In this book, I bring together new perspectives on the integration of Strategy, Tactics and Operations! Much more than just explaining OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)... Much more than theorizing process management (BPM, "Business Process Management"). Here is a real proposal to unite the best of two worlds: the strategic ...

Conquer the CMA Exams: Certified Management Accountant All-in-One Study Guide delivers a concise, structured overview of the full CMA exam content, covering both Part 1 and Part 2 domains. Designed for busy professionals, this unofficial guide simplifies complex topics in financial planning, analysis, control, decision-making, and strategic financial management. Each chapter breaks down essential concepts to help candidates focus on what matters most—understanding the principles, applying them to real scenarios, and reinforcing key study priorities. This book is not intended to replace ...