Author: Rob-Jan Jong Publisher: AMACOM ISBN: 0814449085 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
Vision . . . All the best business schools, books, and gurus say that leaders absolutely must have it--so why does it appear that many of today’s leaders were absent the day that was taught? Because the sad truth is, most leaders today have not developed the visionary capacity necessary to look ahead and explore strategic futures. Or at least their so-called vision is not one that compels, inspires, and energizes their people. Vision may sound like a rare quality, attainable by only a select few--but nothing could be further from the truth. In Anticipate, strategy and leadership expert Rob-Jan de Jong explains how anyone can develop in themselves a visionary leadership. It simply boils down to sharpening two key skills: 1) the ability to see things early, and 2) the power to connect the dots. Using the author’s trademarked FuturePriming process, which helps distinguish signal from noise, readers geared toward fine-tuning these two basic but essential skills will discover how to:• Tap into their imagination and open themselves up to the unconventional• Become better at seeing things early• Frame the big-picture view that provides direction for the future• Communicate your vision in a way that engages others and provokes action• And moreWhen you can anticipate change before your competitors, you create enormous strategic advantage. That's what visionaries do . . . and now so can you.
Author: Bill Thomas Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118417216 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
Design and implement the ideal customer focus Anticipate provides business readers with a practical how-to approach for taking their customer-supplier relationship to one that is more sustainable and more mutually profitable. Much of the discussion on customer experience has centered on the hospitality or retail industries and has showcased the discrete techniques organizations use to deliver better service and create more satisfied customers. Anticipate extends and integrates those techniques to deliver an end-to-end customer experience that can be applied in any industry, by any type of organization. Get proven guidance on how to design and implement a customer-focused journey that moves beyond the transaction and satisfied customers, to a relationship and culture that creates and leverages loyalty – and the profitability that comes with it. Explains proprietary methods—such as the Customer Focus Maturity Model ® and Value Chain Labs ® —that teach readers the steps and tools organizations use to create, drive and optimize their customer focus. Authors Bill Thomas and Jeff Tobe have used their 10-point framework to guide Fortune 500’s, start-ups as well as non-profits in charting a customer-focused journey that matures, anticipates and delivers increasing levels of loyalty and profitability with their customers, and across their broader value chain. Anticipate will provide you with field-proven steps, tools and examples that you’ll use to take your customer-focused strategy, execution and culture to the ideal level.
Author: Standard Publishing Publisher: Standard Pub ISBN: 9780784721896 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 159
Book Description
The devotions in Anticipate will give students a solid spiritual assessment before heading full-force into ministry on a short-term mission trip. This 3-book Mission Trip Devotions & Journal series will prepare teens and young adults for a short-term mission trip, challenge them spiritually while on their trip, and help them debrief once they have returned home.These pocket-size books with a band to hold each closed are designed as travel journals. Each includes 15 devotions and journaling space throughout to help students maximize any short-term mission trip, either locally or out of country. Mission trip leaders should buy a set for each mission trip participant and build the purchase into the trip cost.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental policy Languages : en Pages : 1258
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental policy Languages : en Pages : 396
Author: Lak Ananth Publisher: Ideapress Publishing ISBN: 9781646870721 Category : Languages : en Pages : 185
Book Description
Quibi was going to put short, premium-quality videos in the hands of millions of content-hungry mobile consumers around the globe. The Apple Newton combined cool with indispensable in a way that was expected to spark a new mobile device market that was much bigger than the personal computing market. The $2,500 Tata Nano automobile was touted as a major gamechanger for India and the millions of aspiring middle-class customers who would surely buy one. The Segway personal transporter was introduced with fanfare as a marvel of technology that was poised to change urban transportation. Each one of these products was to set the world on fire--disrupting markets and changing our lives forever. Until they didn't. In his groundbreaking book, Anticipate Failure, Lak Ananth--CEO of global venture capital firm Next47--describes the most common patterns of failure in innovation. He starts with the premise that building a business based on innovation is a perilous endeavor, and failures big and small are always around the corner. Ananth then dives into instances of failures, guiding the reader to understand root causes. Finally, he provides readers with insights and coaching that will enable them not just to avoid failure, but to anticipate it and then get through it on the way to success. Anticipate Failure contains a riveting mix of stories of high-profile failures in innovation as well as many new stories that will be found nowhere else. In addition, Ananth has interviewed some of today's most successful founders and executives for the book, including Filip Kaliszan, CEO of Verkada; Gokul Rajaram, on the DoorDash executive team, Dr. Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens; James Joaquin, Managing Director of Obvious Ventures, Eran Ben-Shushan, CEO of Bizzabo; Andre Hartung, President of Diagnostic Imaging at Siemens Healthineers; Li Pu, President of Segway Robotics; and many others. Anticipate Failure is not a "do-these-things-and-you-will-succeed" prescriptive kind of business book. Instead, it is a coach and trusted companion that will help any business founder, executive, and manager get through some of the most difficult challenges they will face when they embark on innovation and building a new business. Read it, then put the lessons you learn to work in your own business
Author: Francis Fukuyama Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0815729898 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surprises—like the sudden end of the cold war without a shot being fired—have caught governments and societies unprepared many times in recent decades. September 11 is only the most obvious recent example among many unforeseen events that have changed, even redefined our lives. We have every reason to expect more such events in future. Several kinds of unanticipated scenarios—particularly those of low probability and high impact—have the potential to escalate into systemic crises. Even positive surprises can be major policy challenges. Anticipating and managing low-probability events is a critically important challenge to contemporary policymakers, who increasingly recognize that they lack the analytical tools to do so. Developing such tools is the focus of this insightful and perceptive volume, edited by renowned author Francis Fukuyama and sponsored by The American Interest magazine. Bl indside is organized into four main sections. "Thinking about Strategic Surprise" addresses the psychological and institutional obstacles that prevent leaders from planning for low-probability tragedies and allocating the necessary resources to deal with them. The following two sections pinpoint the failures—institutional as well as personal—that allowed key historical events to take leaders by surprise, and examine the philosophies and methodologies of forecasting. In "Pollyana vs. Cassandra," for example, James Kurth and Gregg Easterbrook debate the future state of the world going forward. Mitchell Waldrop explores why technology forecasting is so poor and why that is likely to remain the case. In the book's final section, "What Could Be," internationally renowned authorities discuss low probability, high-impact contingencies in their area of expertise. For example, Scott Barrett looks at emerging infectious diseases, while Gal Luft and Anne Korin discuss energy security. How can we avoid
Author: Ronald P. Brown Publisher: ISBN: 9780615287997 Category : Creative ability in business Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
This is a book about innovation. Innovation, the process of monetizing a novel idea, is the secret to new product success. And the key driver of innovation is creative thinking. The author uses his early training in major advertising agencies, and his later experience as CEO of technology startups, to present a unique ?architecture? for empowering small technical teams with the tools and techniques they need to develop breakthrough products.
Author: Paul Sheneman Publisher: Beacon Hill Press ISBN: 9780834128576 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
A devotional for everyone in your faith community that focuses on experiencing the Advent's theme of anticipating the coming of Jesus, both for the celebration of Christmas and the future return of Christ.
Author: K. Joanne McGlown Publisher: ACHE Management ISBN: 9781567933666 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
As disasters continue to increase in frequency and severity, healthcare organizations must be prepared to react quickly and coordinate their efforts with those of other first-responder organizations. This book focuses on disaster preparedness and response from the healthcare leader's perspective. It shares practical strategies derived from the real-world experience of CEOs and administrators. It also includes compelling interviews with healthcare leaders who led their organizations' response to and recovery from catastrophic events including recent hurricanes, floods, and terrorist threats. Creating a solid financial plan and implementing it swiftly following a catastrophe are critical to the long-term stability of the facility. Two chapters of the book are devoted to ensuring fiscal strength before, during, and after a disaster. These chapters and others are illustrated with easy-to-use sample forms and checklists for planning and response. Topics covered include: Updates of the current status of federal regulations Definitions of the local, state, and federal roles in catastrophe planning Descriptions of various planning processes The most common roadblocks healthcare leaders face in crisis situations Strategies for recovery and reconstruction following an event How to minimize the financial impact of disasters
Author: Rob-Jan Jong
Author: Bill Thomas
Author: Standard Publishing
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution
Author: Lak Ananth
Author: Francis Fukuyama
Author: Ronald P. Brown
Author: Paul Sheneman
Author: K. Joanne McGlown