Strategy

Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through.The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream Teams,...

Give ownership of business strategy to every employee at every level of your organization

You have a great product. You have top-notch talent. You have a process that’s been carefully mapped out. So, what’s missing? Executive, speaker, and leadership authority Billy Ray Taylor points to a lack of clarity on strategy that makes it impossible for your employees to understand how their activities fit within the company’s overall vision and to take true ownership of their careers.

In this groundbreaking guide, Taylor reveals how his proprietary LinkedX Process can help your organization cultivate "extreme ownership" at every level, from top management to front-line employees. Each chapter clearly covers one of the five steps of the Process, providing an actionable roadmap to reaching clearly defined benchmarks and turning them into winning practices.

Taylor's proven program will show you how to:

• Build and deploy a clear, purpose-driven strategy with clarity
• Align the strategy with process, assets, and talent to deliver growth and profitability
• Enable and develop people-driven ownership and adherence to process
•  Measure what matters by defining standards and performance
• Understand that winning is more than just the numbers

Highlighted by Taylor’s personal experiences working with companies across the globe, The Winning Link offers you a step-by-step playbook for creating a corporate culture-driven approach to success

Tap into the potential of strategic partnerships with industry associations in this groundbreaking new book

Reimagining Industry Growth offers readers a blueprint to harnessing the power of leading industry associations as strategic partners. By utilizing those partnerships, business leaders will become able to leverage the collective strength of the supply chain to overcome challenges, address uncertainty, mitigate risks, and position their industries for growth.

The book provides an overview of strategic partnerships, how they work, and how they can be applied to industry relationships with trade associations. It includes:

• Illuminating and factual case studies outlining strategic partnerships in five different industry segments
• Roadmaps for executives to apply the lessons learned from industry success stories on leveraging relationships with trade associations
• Advice on how to move the needle for entire industries via effective strategic partnerships and achieve unprecedented growth

Ideal for executives, managers, business leaders of all kinds, business students and professors, and association executives. Reimagining Industry Growth is required reading for anyone who hopes to tap into the potential strength and value of effective strategic partnerships.

How do you break through the noise?

Why do some messages work when others don't? Why do some ideas break through, why do some slogans stick in your brain, and why do some leaders inspire change - when others don't?

The answer is simple. Literally.

The most effective communicators in the world all structure their messages the same way, by designing for simplicity. But the problem is, simple is hard work. Our brains are programmed to complicate. Our world incentivizes more, more, more. It takes deliberate, intentional effort to communicate in a way that seems effortless.

In Simply Put, award-winning marketing entrepreneur Ben Guttmann unveils a five-part framework that allows anybody to communicate with clarity. With this book, you'll be able to design messages that are beneficial, focused, salient, empathetic, and minimal - and that work.