Strategic Business Partner

Stop Competing Alone and Start Collaborating to Win Are you tired of fighting for every customer while your competitors seem to get referrals effortlessly? Struggling to grow your business despite working harder than ever? The secret isn't better marketing or lower prices—it's building the right partnerships with other local businesses that serve your same customers. "Partner Up and Profit" reveals the proven strategies that successful home service providers and professional service businesses use to generate consistent customer referrals without spending more on advertising. Why Smart ...

Most L&D pros dream of the day when stakeholders will stop viewing them as mere order takers and consider them critical, strategic partners in shaping the future of their organization. But how do you get there? In this book, veteran talent development leader Jess Almlie introduces her formula for becoming the valued strategic business partner (SBP) that leaders in the C-suite and elsewhere in an organization need and want.

In today's dynamic business landscape, HR professionals must evolve beyond traditional roles to become strategic partners in achieving organizational goals. "Business Acumen for HR Professionals" equips HR practitioners with the essential skills and knowledge needed to navigate the complexities of the corporate world. This comprehensive guide delves into the core components of business acumen, including strategic thinking, data-driven decision-making, agility, collaboration, finance, strategy, and problem-solving. Author Steven Haines draws from decades of experience to demystify business ...

ARE YOU SEEKING TO BECOME A DYNAMIC, INDISPENSABLE C-LEVEL PARTNER? As CIO, you seek to collaborate with peers and create innovative solutions that deliver increasing customer value. Yet, each year, the regulatory demands grow ever more complex as you implement and maintain more systems, manage risk and budget, and stay on top of relevant trends that now change by the minute. Your teams are lagging behind, constantly shifting gears, and putting out fires while working to satisfy the relentless demands of the business. You’re feeling stuck, locked down, and pulled in fifteen different ...

Clues will take you on the ultimate treasure hunt. The hunt to find the reason you were born, the reason you want to get up every day, and to find your purpose. Your enthusiasm, thoughts, level of self-confidence, attitude, determination, gratitude, faith, and ability to relinquish control of the outcome will become your treasure hunting tools.

Are you a high-net-worth individual? Then the wealth management rules are different for you. Mark Tepper rightly assures us that we should all consider ourselves wealthy if we have the resources to live the lives we want to live without compromise. However, if you fall into one of his higher-net-worth categories, you will find that Exceptional Wealth is speaking directly to you. Tepper, author of the acclaimed Walk Away Wealthy, stresses that if you are someone with a high net worth, you have to realize that managing your wealth is complex.

We have all heard the exclamation “it’s like a jungle out there”, especially in trying to navigate the business world. That feeling of being overwhelmed by the chaotic arises just in the efforts to keep business moving and alive, let alone to achieve true profit optimization. It does not even broach the concept of building a business to its ultimate fruition: to become a valued and valuable entity of which you can sell at high profit in an exit strategy.

This book provides the road map business owners need to build massive value and start moving toward a successful transition.

Every successful business needs to have turnaround tactics in its arsenal. When a business is struggling, it’s these tactics that will turn the tide. Everyday Turnaround tells the tale of a turnaround CEO of a fictional organization who uses agile tactics to achieve success. Author Eric Kish developed and tested the Everyday Turnaround concept while executing 12 turnarounds across seven industries and three continents over a period of 18 years. From the introduction: "The guy who hired me to do my first turnaround was very smart. He gave me on average 18 months to complete a turnaround ...

Discover the strategies and tactics to maximize the value of your laboratory as you prepare to sell. Melissa Butterworth explains the process, as she teaches you how to become far wealthier than you could have ever dreamed. Don’t leave money on the table.