The Invincible Company explains what every organization can learn from the business models of the world's most exciting companies.
The book explains how companies such as Amazon, IKEA, Airbnb, Microsoft, and Logitech, have been able to create immensely successful businesses and disrupt entire industries. At the core of these successes are not just great products and services, but profitable, innovative business models--and the ability to improve existing business models while consistently launching new ones.
It presents practical new tools for measuring, managing, and accelerating innovation, and strategies for reducing risk when launching new business models.
The Corporate Social Mind introduces a new cultural and strategic approach to social issue engagement by companies. Today’s social issues require a different mindset—one that builds on the expertise of both corporate social responsibility and marketing teams to achieve impact and public/consumer action for social change. This book helps corporate leaders design approaches that bring these crucial teams together by showing them how to build stronger campaigns, moments, and initiatives that positively change the world.
This book helps leaders of both corporate social impact and marketing teams move beyond their own ways of thinking and come together to address social issues through a mindset that embeds key traits into daily work. Business as a whole, from research and innovation to marketing, can drive positive social change in society when it is integrated into the way we work.
What makes things popular? Why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral?
In this book, the author reveals the secret science behind word-of-mouth and social transmission. Discover how six basic principles drive all sorts of things to become contagious, from consumer products and policy initiatives to workplace rumors and YouTube videos.
Many companies are now looking for new and improved ways to present their company structure. They aim to shake up the classic components that make org charts useful with new ideas that better communicate the organization’s style or culture.
Take a look at this article that discusses the 10 most famous types of organizational charts. Keep in mind while reading how each type would impact your employees and your overall efficiency.
Thinking, Fast and Slow takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
It shows you how two systems in your brain are constantly fighting over control of your behavior and actions, and teaches you the many ways in which this leads to errors in memory, judgment, and decisions, and what you can do about it.
The Financial Numbers Game provides a clear explanation of the ways in which management can stretch, bend, and break accounting rules to reach the desired bottom line.
In this book, the political advisor to Uber, FanDuel, Lemonade, Tesla and other startups reveals what really happens at the intersection of politics, tech and business.
In this book, the author takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving a "product/market fit" for your business project. He builds on the ideas and concepts of several innovative methodologies, including the Lean Startup, Customer Development, and bootstrapping.
A simple, easy-to-follow guide for reading financial statements from Warren Buffett's successful perspective.
The Ultimate Sales Machine shows you how to tune up and soup up virtually every part of your business by spending just an hour per week on each impact area you want to improve? sales, marketing, management, and more.