Forecasting & Strategic Planning

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result in “the ultimate guide to thinking about risk” (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit). “A big favorite among...

Whether you're a chronic second-guesser or just eager for new ways to look at your world, Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler will teach you how to improve your understanding of the dilemmas you face and how to make better decisions every day....

From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions....

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles) in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals. Both...

Innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right - yet still lose market leadership....

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up...

The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller-one of the most influential business books of all time-innovation expert...

Playing to Win outlines a proven method that has worked for some of today’s most celebrated brands and products. Let this book serve as your new guide to winning, as well....

2025 PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY OPRAH DAILY, ADAM GRANT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE MAGAZINE, AND MORE A revolutionary guide to fixing what’s not working—in systems and processes, organizations and companies, and even in...

The lifeblood of your business is a constant flow of new accounts. . .no matter how much repeat business you get from loyal customers. Packed with tested strategies and anecdotes, New Sales. Simplified. offers a proven formula for prospecting, developing, and closing deals. With refreshing...

From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting to achieve greater success Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn’t working. Governments, caught in a hopeless conflict...

Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you....

The Art of War dates back to the fifth century BC, and is an ancient Chinese military handbook. Attributed to the intelligent military strategist Sun Tzu it is still one of the most influential strategy texts....

7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you to learn, communicate, and quickly apply.

If you had the opportunity to work where, when, and with whom you wanted, would you take it? Self-made multimillionaire and best-selling author Michael Masterson did....

International bestselling author of The First 90 Days Michael D. Watkins presents an actionable new framework to help aspiring leaders learn to think strategically—a set of skills more necessary than ever in a world of constant change. Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility...

Winner of the 2025 Thinkers50 Strategy Award What if we’ve misunderstood the real power of AI, not as a tool for doing tasks faster through ...

The Wall Street Journal Bestseller Read by the author. For so many entrepreneurs, running a small business ended up looking different than they imagined. They’re stressed, discouraged, and not confident in their plan for growth. In How to Grow Your Small Business, Donald Miller gives...

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging...

A new fundamental economic shift is emerging: an economy based on transformative experiences that guide people to change, achieve their aspirations, and become who they want to be. Welcome to the Transformation Economy. Creating transformative experiences offers businesses the largest...

Innovation doesn't just happen. You need to lead it. Discover the three critical roles leaders must play in driving—and scaling—innovation. Constant tech disruption. Unrelenting economic volatility. Radically shifting demographics and work norms. More than ever, we need to innovate amid...

Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of “sell it—do it, sell it—do it” that leaves...

Based on extensive research and real-world examples, this book upends accepted wisdom about how to achieve success when launching a startup or creating a new product “The most important start-up book of the last ten years.” —Steve Blank, co-creator of the Lean Startup movement The...

What’s Keeping Your Company from Reaching the Next Level? You’ve mastered the basics of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). Your leadership team is aligned, the vision is clear, and you’re gaining traction. Now comes the real challenge: rolling out your vision and EOS company-wide.

In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm....

Innovation doesn't just happen. You need to lead it. Discover the three critical roles leaders must play in driving—and scaling—innovation. Constant tech disruption. Unrelenting economic volatility. Radically shifting demographics and work norms. More than ever, we need to innovate amid...

If you listen to nothing else on innovation, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you invest in your best innovation bets, learn from setbacks, and bring bold new offerings to market. This book will inspire you to know your customers' "jobs to be done;" harness the benefits of design thinking; bring AI into the innovation process; keep bureaucracy and structure from stifling creativity; build a culture of experimentation; and become the disrupter in your industry.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on leading digital transformation, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you set ambitious milestones for your transformation, anticipate and avoid common mistakes, and...

Inspired! Starting Your Own Business At Any Age: A Practical, MBA-Style Guide to Entrepreneurship is the ultimate companion for anyone ready to launch, grow, or scale a business—whether you’re in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, or 60s. Look past the myths of “young founder” culture and recognize that success in entrepreneurship comes from a combination of energy, experience, judgment, and strategic thinking. Inspired! teaches you how to identify profitable business opportunities, design a winning business model, conduct market research, build a strong team, and create a sustainable company...

Most teams don’t have a people problem. They have a leverage problem. If your team feels busy, overwhelmed, and constantly behind, this book will show you why. In today’s fast-changing workplace, small teams are expected to deliver big results. But working harder is not the answer. Hiring more people is not always possible. And adding more tools often makes things worse. The real solution is smarter systems. What You Will Learn In Small Team, Smart Tools, you will learn how to: Use AI to eliminate repetitive work and save hours every week Turn messy workflows into clear, repeatable ...

Most healthcare practices are clinical businesses. They deliver excellent care but run their operations on tribal knowledge, informal processes, and the owner's personal bandwidth. They generate income but not enterprise value. They grow by adding providers but not by building systems. And when the owner steps back, the organization stumbles—because it was never designed to operate without them. THE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT BLUEPRINT is the operating manual that changes this. It is the complete ten-domain framework for running a high-performing healthcare practice as an enterprise—an ...

RevOps Team Building is a step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to improve the performance of the people running their revenue operations system. You can design a perfect system, and it will still fail if the wrong people are running it. Whether you're a CEO trying to figure out why your RevOps investment isn't producing results, a team leader struggling to onboard new hires who can't seem to get up to speed, a manager watching good people leave for competitors, or an operations professional who knows the technology works but the team around it doesn't, this book shows you how to solve ...

PREVAIL OR VANISH. In the savage landscape of modern business, there are only two outcomes: conquer or be erased. For over 20 years, forged on business frontlines across 30 countries, I witnessed a stark reality. I worked with—and against—the apex competitors. They operated with a ruthless logic that most people never learn, or choose to ignore. The 9 Warrior Laws are not optional rules. I did not invent them. They are the unforgiving physics of power—the operating system behind the U.S. Army, NATO doctrine, and history’s greatest empires. These are the same Laws that armed Genghis ...

Stop wasting time and money coming up short on your goals. Get aligned and get them done. Don’t fall into the Failure Gap, where ambitious strategies come up short because leaders know what to do and why, but they haven’t figured out HOW to do it together. Knowing your WHY and your WHAT is insufficient to drive growth and transformation in your organization.

Organizations are racing to deploy Agentic AI, yet few are ready for the risks that emerge when employees use AI without structure, standards, or oversight. The HUMAN Agentic AI Edge offers leaders a practical blueprint for building AI-ready teams that consistently produce high-quality results. Drawing on real-world knowledge and insights from interviews with more than 50 AI leaders and experts, Andreas Welsch shows how to combine human judgment with Agentic AI capabilities to reach the level of performance many organizations expect but rarely achieve. Instead of driving efficiency, teams ...

Lead Whole was written to challenge the way leaders see themselves, their teams, and their organizations. Too often, leadership is reduced to strategy decks, profit margins, and quick fixes, yet true success is always rooted in people. This book equips leaders with a blueprint to build sustainable cultures where innovation thrives, teams feel valued, and organizations leave a meaningful impact.

Every dashboard was green, the routing system was hitting every target. The metrics said success. The customers said otherwise. Marcus Chen and his team at Consolidated Logistics must learn what most organizations get wrong about AI: individual excellence isn't enough. To leverage AI's capabilities and recognize when they're being misled, they need to become a team that's smarter than any member alone.

Too many of today’s colleges and universities are defined by their silos and separations: teaching and research, student affairs and academic affairs, courses and careers, academia and industry, online and on-campus. The list goes on. But demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, economic upheaval, and new ways of learning and working mean that higher education must change.

Your AI system just made a hiring decision. Do you know why? Every CHRO is now accountable for AI decisions they did not make, using tools they did not choose, governed by rules nobody ever wrote down. That accountability gap is already producing legal exposure, regulatory risk, and real harm to the people HR exists to protect. And most organizations are trying to close it with the wrong tools — vendor audits, prompt engineering, and compliance checklists built for a world where humans made every call. That world is gone. The Rules Nobody Wrote gives CHROs and HR leaders the framework ...

Organizations have invested $30–40 billion in AI. According to MIT (2025), 95% produced no measurable return. Only 5% made it into daily workflows. If you're reading this, you're trying not to become that statistic—or you already are. The problem isn't bad technology. Most AI failures don't begin at scale. They begin during pilots, when early success builds confidence without revealing risks that surface once AI enters real workflows and decisions under pressure.

Every business owner, without exception, will eventually exit their business. It might be a carefully orchestrated exit, the culmination of years of planning. Or, it could be thrust upon you unexpectedly, a sudden turn forced by circumstances beyond your control. What will happen to you and the business you’ve painstakingly built when it's time to step away?

Vivek Mashrani's bestselling You Can Compound is your companion to learn, implement and refine the investing process. It opens a window to secrets, strategies and frameworks to compound money by investing in the stock market. Mashrani integrates principles of personal finance, building blocks to...

What began as a series of letters from a father to his son became a lifelong lesson in ethical leadership, purpose, and living with intention. The Leadership Harvest is both a heartfelt tribute and a practical guide for leaders who want to cultivate strong workplace relationships, lead with integrity, and build teams rooted in shared core values.

Performance is not about effort. It’s about systems. Most organizations measure activity. Few measure structural effectiveness. Dashboards multiply. Metrics expand. Incentives escalate. Yet performance plateaus. Why? Because performance is not a motivational problem. It is a design problem. Performance Architecture is a tactical guide to building performance systems that actually produce measurable results. This book moves beyond generic KPIs and performance reviews to address the structural mechanics that drive sustained outcomes. Inside, you’ll learn: • Why most performance systems ...

With the introduction of the EU AI Act, Artificial Intelligence has moved from a "digital playground" to a strictly regulated corporate environment. This audiobook is designed for busy professionals who need to understand the essentials without getting lost in legal jargon. It bridges the gap between technical possibility and legal necessity. Don't just react to the law—lead it. Equip yourself with the knowledge to manage AI responsibly, ethically, and profitably.

Your company is sitting on untapped wealth—and you may not even see it. Every day, privately owned and middle-market businesses unknowingly leave millions on the table. Why? Because they’re so close to their operations, they can’t see the hidden value ready to be unlocked. In Shocking Profit: Cash In on Your Company’s Hidden Value, Grow Leaders, and Spark a Transformation That Changes Everything, Tim Van Mieghem hands you the proven tools top private equity firms use to reveal blind spots and capture hidden profit—without buying new equipment, hiring more people, or spending big.

In Life Lessons From a Serial Entrepreneur: Ideas That Can Change Your Life, successful, seasoned entrepreneur Carl Wolf distills decades of real-world experience—filled with triumphs, failures, and powerful awakenings—into practical insights you can apply today. This audiobook isn’t just about business; it’s about mastering life through the entrepreneurial mindset.

You didn’t start a video business to work 60-hour weeks. Yet somewhere between landing better clients and increasing revenue, the business quietly turned into a job, one where everything still depends on you. If you’re running a video production company doing $200K–$300K a year, you already know the problem. You’re busy. Booked. Technically successful. But growth hasn’t bought you freedom. It’s bought you more responsibility, more stress, and less space to think. The S. C. A. L. E. Method explains why this happens — and how to fix it.

Every organization runs on maps — profit and loss statements, performance reviews, strategic frameworks. These maps compress reality into something manageable. The compression is inevitable. Scale demands abstraction. But maps always erase something. And what gets erased is often what matters most: prevention work that manifests as silence, multiplicative value that defies attribution, craft that compounds invisibly, judgment that refuses to fit the form. The standard literature offers aspiration. This audiobook offers mechanics.

Stop chasing new customers. Start keeping the ones you’ve already earned. The Small Business Growth Blueprint shows you how to turn occasional buyers into lifelong fans, no matter what type of business you run. Written by 30-year business journalist and entrepreneur, this guide cuts through theory and gives you actionable strategies proven to work in the real world. Inside, you'll discover: → Why customers leave (even when they're satisfied with your product or service). → The warning signs of customer churn you're probably missing right now. → The exact post-purchase touchpoints ...