Strategic Planning

Structuring Strategic Business Alliances - DVD

Strategic alliances have become a regular part of business culture these days. So how do you know that the alliance will have a positive effect on each partner’s bottom line? Learn more

Planning Successful Employee Performance: Facilitation Kit

For employees to achieve their maximum potential, managers and supervisors must effectively establish and communicate performance expectations. Learn more

What Drives Phenomenal Success?- DVD

Southwest Airlines started with a simple idea, and managed to stick with it through decades of unprecedented growth. Many have tried (but failed) to emulate their success. 

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Boom and Bust: Thriving Through Major Business Cycles

Voted the Number 1 company to work for in 2009 by Fortune magazine, NetApp has successfully navigated through every major cycle in business: from the frenetic mentality of a startup, through the tumultuous period of the dot-com boom and bust, and finally to the relative stability of a mature enterprise organization. Learn more

Visioning For The Future - Facilitator Kit

Align Your Workgroup's Vision, Mission, Values, And Passions Learn more

Judo Strategy- DVD

Competition in business is healthy, but as with all things in life, someone’s going to win and someone’s going to lose. Learn more

Dealing with Crisis and Transition: How Organizations Transform Themselves - DVD

It may seem like a contradiction, but having a successful business doesn’t mean you won’t fail. In fact, it’s your level of success that can directly lead to failure, as complacency can create a resistance to change. Learn more

Leadership for Innovation - DVD

What kind of leadership is needed when innovation is your competitive advantage? From her research on companies that have achieved breakthrough innovations, Professor Hill found a common leadership approach. Learn more

A Blueprint for Change: Market-Based Solutions for Global Poverty

Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO, Acumen Fund

Amazingly, something as essential as clean water is more difficult to come by for two-thirds of the world’s population. People are made to pay more for basic life services while earning far less.

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Driving Innovation in a Tough Economy - DVD

After reinventing itself years ago from a software-for-PCs producer to a software-for-the-enterprise producer, Microsoft is now in the midst of a multi-year initiative to transform itself again—to a software-plus-internet-services provider Learn more

The Search for Life After Planning: How to Build Strategies That Get Implemented- DVD

The traditional approach to strategic planning—which focused on producing a plan on a piece of paper that would subsequently disappear into a desk drawer—is dead. Replacing the old approach is a new method that focuses on strategic thinking and implementation. Learn more

Red Queen Competition: A Dynamic View of Strategy- DVD

"Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." So said the Red Queen, in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. The neo-classical model of business strategy is built on a theory of market equilibrium. Learn more

The Strategic Leadership Game

If you're looking for an innovative and fun way to teach managers about the difference structure and support make in employee performance, it's time to play The Strategic Leadership Game. A full toolbox of ideas to help managers experience how leaders manage task performance. Learn more

Doing Business in Chile - DVD

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To survive in this dynamic, emerging market, its crucial to know Chilean customs and culture. Doing Business In Chile is a complete training program for being profitable and avoiding business problems in Chile. Learn more

Collaborative Entrepreneurship: Creating Wealth Through Networked Firms - DVD

Since many existing business practices inhibit innovation, new organizational designs and managerial approaches must emerge to meet today's new challenges. Learn more

How to Manage People Through Continuous Change - DVD

Change is no longer an event... Change is business as usual. Customers are demanding "better, faster, cheaper"; competition is fierce; and a turbulent economy and technological advances increase the pressure to "do more with less." Learn more

Strategic Alliances: How to Negotiate, Influence and Deliver Results- DVD

Whether to beat stiff competition in your market, grow customer satisfaction, or pare your bottom line, strategic alliances are increasingly vital to your organization's success. Yet as many as two-thirds of new alliances fail to live up to expectations. Learn more

Living The Vision On The Job: Facilitator Kit

Through Living The Vision On The Job, participants learn how to develop and align their personal visions, missions, and values with those of their organization to become more self-motivated and productive. Learn more

Managing Innovation - DVD

iRobot operated without venture capital and on a break-even basis for eight years, developing a number of products for industry and the military without commercial success. Learn more

How to Drive Your Competition Crazy - DVD

In the time-honored tradition of the maxim, "It's not how you play the game, but whether you win or lose," best-selling author Guy Kawasaki presents the definitive take-no-prisoners guide for Davids to beat Goliaths. Learn more

Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos - DVD

Instead of focusing on where you want to go, today's uncertain future requires that you focus on how you're going to get there. The process you need is structured chaos — a few simple rules setting priorities and responsibilities, and total creative freedom for business units within that framework. Learn more

Change Management and Strategic Planning - DVD

Strategic planning is the process of creating a wave of change while gaining commitment from your employees and other stakeholders necessary to make it happen. Yet, change inevitably engenders resistance. Learn more

How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People- DVD

Ordinary” people are just as capable of leading your company to success as the expensive talent you could bring in from outside. But how do you motivate your employees to aspire to greatness? (Hint: Not with money.)

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Finding Untapped Growth in Existing Markets- DVD

Managers are under constant pressure to grow, but it is often difficult to find new avenues of growth within an existing line of business. Learn more

Drive Business Performance - DVD

To achieve a culture of performance that drives growth, organizations need to build accountability, intelligence, and informed decision-making into their organizational DNA. Learn more