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"In this updated and expanded 10th anniversary edition, internationally known leadership transition expert Michael D. Watkins gives you the keys to successfully negotiating your next move--whether you're onboarding into a new company, being promoted internally, or embarking on an international assignment"--

Traditional pricing methods involve a trade-off. You want to charge as much as you can in order to maximize Profits, but not so much that there is a negative impact on sales. So when a customer rejects your price, does it mean that the price is too high? According to Tom Nagle, not necessarily. To get customers to pay for value, he maintains, you need to approach your markets proactively, with communications that justify your price in terms of value....

Offers tools and techniques to systematically understand, design, and implement new business models and renovate and rework old models.

Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility. Structured problem-solving. Visioning. Political savvy. For every good leader who has mastered of one of these disciplines is a great leader who knows and has mastered all of them. Michael D. Watkins, an expert on leadership transitions and organizational success, returns to the page with a new how-to guide for the modern leader. Here, he presents the six disciplines that separate the great...

In a business environment of fastmoving markets, global supply chains, and dynamic technologies, executing strategy is becoming increasingly dif cult. How do you aim for a target that is constantly shifting while standing on a platform that is constantly destabilized? Professor Levitt provides the answer: plan in detail only as far out as you can see; keep questioning your assumptions about your markets, resources, and competitors; and revise your...

An ex-SEAL takes readers deep within the mind of a Navy SEAL, revealing how to attain the mental toughness, agility, flexibility, and determination to accomplish seemingly impossible feats in the business world.

Today's technology and business initiatives have broken free of the local enterprise by expanding to involve organizations and workers across the far reaches of the globe. In this report, Paula Wagner, project management expert and co-author of the popular new book, Global Program Management, discusses the rise of global program management and offers advice and best practices that will improve the design, delivery and management of global IT and business...

A former Mafia associate argues that the mob's most successful leaders have been astute businessmen, revealing how their management techniques can be effectively applied to legitimate businesses, in a guide that includes coverage of such topics as leading without force, building trust and avoiding personal involvement.

"Why do so many of the most promising businesses fail to achieve consistent, sustainable growth? Tiffani Bova, the Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, draws on her expertise as a consultant and practitioner to devise a new framework for business leaders looking to pursue growth. We're witnessing an age of endless customization, and growth strategy is no exception. There's no one size fits all strategy; a winning strategy for one business...

John has never been a stranger to hard work. As a young man he started a hip-hop inspired fashion brand on the streets of Queens, New York, with a $40 budget; today his brand, FUBU, has over $6 billion in sales. The truth, he says, is that if you want to get and stay ahead, you need to put in the work. You need to outthink, outhustle, and outperform everyone around you. You've got to rise and grind every day. Here John shares the habits and mind-set...