Well-known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coinbase, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies into global brands. Across all of these break-out companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has codified in High Growth Handbook.
How to Think Strategically is the ideal primer for those who want to develop their mental acumen and make strategic impact. This book will help you understand what it means to "be strategic" and how to craft strategy that is effective, powerful, and clever. A competent strategic thinker tolerates ambiguity, notices weak signals, defines the core challenge facing the organization, and designs effective responses with a winning strategic logic. How to Think Strategically provides numerous real-world examples of individual strategic thinkers in action describing how they constructed a winning strategic logic. Through these examples, you'll learn useful lessons that can be applied in any organization and in your personal life"
"The best plan is useless without effective execution The future of business has become so unpredictable that your five-year plan may be irrelevant next week. To succeed in the modern market, you must constantly assess your progress and adapt on the fly. Agility, flexibility, continual learning, and adaptation are the new rules of business success. A differentiating strategy is crucial, but it will only lead to competitive advantage if you execute it flawlessly. You'll succeed only if you have the right insight for strategic planning and the agility to execute your plan. Balanced Scorecard Evolution: A Dynamic Approach to Strategy Execution provides the latest theory and practice from strategic planning, change management, and strategy execution to ensure your business is flexible, future ready, and primed for exceptional execution.
Part of a series that delivers the fundamental information professionals need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. This book offers managers practical guidance for measuring their intangible assets (customer relationships, internal business processes, and employee learning) and aligning corporate strategy accordingly.
Contributions to this e-book examine this process from both end-to-end and closed loop perspectives. The objective is to explore and establish enterprise systems that provide feedback and foresight aimed at one-time improvements or that may contribute to a spiral of both incremental and radical improvement in one or more of the triple bottom line performance and impact domains. As such the contributions to this e-book identify various strategies and enablers of triple bottom line performance and impacts with perspectives that range from sweeping to supply chain to organizational to methods levels. Similarly, industry specific examples are provided, as is a national approach to society sustainability garnered through lifelong learning.
This e-book explores the topic of the relationship of strategic performance management to team strategy, company performance, and organizational effectiveness. This issue contains five original articles, which takes a wider disciplinary perspective, from human resource management, strategic management, operations management, and organizational learning, as well as performance management, to address this theme. A mix of conceptual, empirical and case-based research is presented in this issue, which reflects the degree of currency, as well as the imperative for, an exposition of the topic area.