Strategy Development

Why read this strategy book? Understand business from a strategic perspective. Senior executives routinely share and discuss strategy with marketing directors, operations chiefs, and other direct reports. But how much do those managers really understand about strategic thinking, planning, implementation, and measurement? A recent investigation into this question concluded most managers don't understand enough about strategy to be useful. Asked to take a basic strategy exam—a test that any CEO or senior manager should easily ace—a representative sample of U.S. managers from C-level ...

The Complete Strategy Collection, a compilation of ancient and historical philosophies, will increase your knowledge of strategy, conflict, and adversity throughout the ages, giving you valuable insight into the past while opening a window to the future. Although each of the works can be considered a manual or diagram for war or engaging in physical combat, the life skills embodied in each can be adapted to everyday life in modern society. Listen and learn how you, too, can take advantage of the strategies of war.

LIST OF CHAPTERS: Introduction: About this Book About the Author Part I: An Overview of Strategic Planning Part II: 100 of the Most Important of Q&A Part III: Glossary of 200 of the most Important of Terms Part IV: 100 of the Most Common Challenges and best way to address them This unique publication gives leaders, managers and professionals a clear, practical and powerful guide to building strategy that actually works. Drawing on foundations laid by the world’s leading strategy thinkers (Mintzberg, Porter etc.) and real-world experience; Musab Qureshi (Consultant from the UK) distils ...

Have you ever truly asked yourself: What is strategy? If you’re frustrated by vague advice, conflicting frameworks, or strategy that falls apart under pressure, this book offers a way to think about strategy that is rigorous, practical, and deeply intuitive once seen. It is written for engineers, executives, policymakers, complexity thinkers, and anyone who wants a clean, unambiguous explanation of strategy that matches the complexity of the environments we operate in. What IS strategy? This book answers that question clearly, scientifically, and without the buzzword fog that has ...

This new expanded edition contains a protocol to develop and hone critical decision-making instincts and make them habitual. This new chapter is read by the author. The instant #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, #1 USA Today bestseller answers the world’s most complex question: How do...

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a...

AI tools are everywhere. Clear guidance on what to build with them is not. Most people don’t fail with AI because they lack access, skill, or motivation. They fail because they never decide what deserves their focus. They keep learning and tweaking—while real progress stays just out of reach. If you’ve explored platforms, followed tutorials, and still asked yourself how you could monetize AI—it isn’t confusion. It’s a missing decision framework.

Marriage coaches and NFL chaplains George and Tondra Gregory give couples practical tools for long-term success in this holistic, biblically based guide for marriage.

In Cracked It!, seasoned strategy professors and consultants Bernard Garrette, Corey Phelps and Olivier Sibony present a rigorous and practical four-step approach to overcome these pitfalls. Building on tried-and-tested (but rarely revealed) methods of top strategy consultants, research in cognitive psychology, and the latest advances in design thinking, they provide a step-by-step process and toolkit that will help listeners tackle any challenging business problem. Using compelling stories and detailed case examples, the authors guide listeners through each step in the process.

In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.

Elbridge A. Colby was the lead architect of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the most significant revision of US defense strategy in a generation. Here he lays out how America's defense must change to address China's growing power and ambition. Based firmly in the realist tradition but deeply engaged in current policy, this book offers a clear framework for what America's goals in confronting China must be, how its military strategy must change, and how it must prioritize these goals over its lesser interests.

If you’ve spent hours running GTO sims only to realize your strategy still feels fragmented—or worse, robotic—you’re not alone. Many serious poker players eventually hit a wall where solver work stops giving them the complete picture. That’s where The Exploitative Edge comes in. This book isn’t another dense solver dump. Instead, it gives you a cohesive, practical framework for exploitative poker strategy—helping you bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and real-world execution.

Most entrepreneurs are running on fumes—trapped in a loop of doing, fixing, and catching up. You can’t step away without something slipping. Deep down, you know the problem isn’t effort—it’s control. The "hustle" is a lie. The path to a million-dollar business isn't working harder; it's shifting from Operator to Architect — building systems that do the draining, repetitive work for you.

Shortcut Your Way to Better Trading Strategies What if you could take years of algorithmic trading research and condense it into practical, proven “cheat codes” you can apply right now? In Algo Trading Cheat Codes, award-winning trader and author Kevin J. Davey—Verified Trading Championship winner and creator of the acclaimed Strategy Factory® process—pulls back the curtain on the very techniques he uses to build robust, profitable trading systems. This isn’t theory. Inside you’ll find thousands of hours of research boiled down into simple, actionable takeaways you can ...

This is a 30-day execution playbook. Each chapter builds on the last. Complete the action steps, and you'll have a working AI system—not just theoretical knowledge.

Spanning world civilizations, synthesizing dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts and thousands of years of violent conflict, The 33 Strategies of War is a comprehensive guide to the subtle social games of everyday life, informed by the most ingenious and effective military principles in war. Structured in Greene's trademark style, The 33 Strategies of War is the I Ching of conflict, the contemporary companion to Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

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 ...

Simple, low-risk experiments for long-term profit growth that you can test right now—from Google's former Chief Evangelist, Nicolas Darveau-Garneau. As a business leader or marketer, if you've been pouring your efforts into efficiency metrics (like customer acquisition cost or return on ad...

John Kotter, the world's foremost expert on business leadership, distills twenty-five years of experience into Leading Change. A must-have for any organization, this visionary and very personal audiobook is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future...

Explore the universe of potential buyers. Learn how to assemble a team of expert advisors to prepare your business for sale. Walk step by step through a typical investment-banker-led midmarket sale process from start to finish. Adam Coffey has spent the last 20 years as CEO of three private-equity-backed national service companies. Through his experience executing a buy-and-build strategy, he has bought and sold more than 100 companies ranging in size from $1 million to $1 billion. Selling your business is an art.